The 14 players to win both UCL & Copa Libertadores: Neymar, Alvarez, Marcelo...
Believe it or not, only 14 players have ever won the most prestigious cup competitions of South American and European club football.
Both trophies are incredibly prestigious and there's only a select group of footballers privileged enough to win each of them.
It might not be as surprising to learn that only Brazilian and Argentine players have ever managed to lift both trophies. Here are the players to have won both trophies and when they managed to win them.
Argentinian international Pablo Sorin was the first player who was able to achieve the feat of winning both trophies. Impressively enough he actually won both competitions in the same calendar year.
Sorin began the 1995-96 season with Juventus, but he only featured in five games for the Italian side. His 45-minute cameo against Borussia Dortmund in the group stages meant that he was eligible to collect a Champions League medal.
In January he moved back to Argentina and won the Copa Libertadores just a few months later with River Plate.
Cafu was a two-time winner of the Copa Libertadores with Sao Paulo in the nineties. The Brazilian full-back was also part of AC Milan's iconic 2006-07 Champions League winning side against Liverpool.
He would have won another Champions League medal in 2005, had it not been for Steven Gerrard's heroics…
Danilo was a two-time Champions League winner with Real Madrid in 2016 and 2017. He started each final on the bench and was used as a second-half substitute in the 2016 San Siro final against Atletico Madrid.
The Brazilian also won the Copa Libertadores prior to his success in Madrid with Santos in 2011.
Dida produced the heroics in the 2002-03 Champions League final as he saved three penalties in a shootout against Juventus.
The Brazilian keeper
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