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Real Madrid embellish Champions League legacy in beating Liverpool for 14th European title

PARIS -- And now it's 14, which is more than the next two most successful clubs in Europe -- Milan have seven, Liverpool six -- combined.

And now Carlo Ancelotti has four as a manager, which is more than anybody else. ("I am a record man!" he said, equal measures disbelieving and self-effacing.)

And now the Kylian Mbappe snub isn't quite so infuriating -- it has to be satisfying to win a European Cup in his city, a 10-minute scooter ride from where he was born and raised. (Or, as club president Florentino Perez put it after the game: "Mbappe is forgotten now and that's OK .