LISBON – Emmanuel Macron was quick to appropriate France's unexpected Champions League prowess for political purposes.“In Brussels, as on the pitches," the French president tweeted. "France and Germany, engines of Europe!”The most powerful voices in European Union decision-making.
And the last countries standing in the continent's premier football competition, too.It has never happened before: two French teams in the Champions League semifinals after two nights of incredible results in Lisbon.
It is only the second time — after 1991 — since the European Cup was first handed out in 1955 that no teams from England, Italy or Spain made it to the last four.Lionel Messi and Barcelona were sent packing after an 8-2 demolition by Bayern Munich on.