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During his last season at Chelsea it was all about eggs and omelettes for Jose Mourinho and now at Real Madrid it is all about the three black sheep. Despite all of this, the self styled ‘Special One’ or indeed the ‘Only One’ as he prefers to be known now is looking at an unprecedented third Champions League with a third different club as the end of the season approaches.

The Champions League returned to our screens this week as Europe's heavyweights collided in the first-leg ties of the quater final. Each Champions League week, adidas hook some of their star star atheltes with a miCoach chip in their boots to track their performance data at the highest level. This week, it's Angel di Maria and Thomas Müller.

The latest adidas miCoach stats are in and this time they're from last weeks Manchester United vs Real Madrid Champions League second leg match at Old Trafford. Each Champions League week, we're given a new set of stats! The chosen players selected

The return of the Champions League knock-out stages brings with it the official unveiling of the new adidas Finale Wembley 2013. This year, the Champions League final returns to Wembley Stadium and adidas have re-decorated their famous Finale for the biggest football spectacle of the season.

Chelsea players are gearing up for one of the biggest nights of their career. Ahead of jetting off to Germany, members of the first team squad have been giving their new Nike football boots a run out on home soil. Nike have hooked up their Chelsea pro-list with their respective boots from the Nike Clash collection.

The script was written. The world's greatest team would brush aside Chelsea to establish a comfortable lead ahead of the return leg at the Camp Nou. Amidst the theatrics, Xavi and his adidas Predator LZ football boots did conduct Barcelona's every move - as expected! The Spaniard made 134 passes as the Catalans enjoyed 72% possession...

Pep Guardiola labelled his number 10 as ''the best ever'' after his five-goal haul that took the Argentine to within seven goals of the total club record held by Cesar Rodriguez. Wayne Rooney spoke of admiration for the Barcelona star as he singled Messi out as ''the best ever''. So the time has come for the SoccerBible audience to have their say.

It's the tie of the round, with two of European football's heavy weights battling to gain a first-leg advantage in what promises to be a mouth-watering Champions League encounter. Castrol EDGE Performance data shows that Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Robin van Persie will be the crucial two in determining the outcome of this exciting Champions League tie.

The Champions League makes its overdue return to our screens tonight as the race to the final hots up! To mark the beginning of the knock-out stages, adidas and UEFA have taken to the Allianz Arena pitch to officially launch the match ball of the 2012 Champions League Final. It's our first glimpse of the new ball on pitch, and it certainly looks the business!

Champions League fever is returning and to wet everyone’s appetite, adidas have landed a new ball design for this years final in Munich! Strictly speaking, it's the same ball as last year...but with an eye-popping new design reserved exclusively for the biggest club match of the year, this could be one of our favourite Champions League footballs to date!