If you take a deep dive into the history of the Champions League—formerly the European Cup—you'll find two holes in the bracket of 1961. On Saturday, one of those holes was filled.
Here's what happened: in August 1960, Glenavon from Northern Ireland and Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt from East Germany, both national champions, were scheduled to meet in the two-leg first round of the tournament. However, at the height of the Cold War, neither team could get a visa to play in the other's home country and a low-budget Glenavon outfit had to withdraw.
