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Lionel Messi Vows to Bring Champions League Success Back to Barcelona After Assuming Club Captaincy

Lionel Messi has backed La Liga's dominance in the Champions League of recent years to continue by vowing he and his Barcelona team-mates "will do everything possible" to lift the trophy in the Spanish capital next year.

Bitter rivals Real Madrid created history in Kiev in May by becoming the only side to secure three successive successes in the competition in its current format - and being the first to do so at the pinnacle of European club football since Bayern Munich in 1976.

With doing so, they continued a five year reign of Spanish sides claiming the silverware, with Barça doing so only once in that time in 2015.