Atlético reaches its breaking point as Real Madrid claims La Decima

Gareth Bale's extra time goal won the game from Real Madrid and made him the first Welshman to score in a Europan championship final.

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Even Ancelotti, who now stands alongside Bob Paisley as one of only two managers to have won the Champions League three times -- to go with the twice he won it as a player -- might not have survived to next season at the Bernabeu. Or if he had, it would have been under great pressure. Now he is feted as the man who won la decima. "From the first day," Ancelotti said, "I went to the trophy room with the president and said, 'There's one missing.' Now, we've won the most important competition in the world."