Tottenham icon Toby Alderweireld reveals two career moments will haunt him forever
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14-second readToby Alderweireld revealed to BBC Sport that two Champions League final defeats still haunt him. He lost with Atletico Madrid in 2013/14 and with Tottenham in 2018/19. Alderweireld came off the bench in the 2014 final, a game that Atletico led until a 93rd-minute Sergio Ramos equaliser forced extra time.
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Toby Alderweireld revealed to BBC Sport that two Champions League final defeats still haunt him. He lost with Atletico Madrid in 2013/14 and with Tottenham in 2018/19. Alderweireld came off the bench in the 2014 final, a game that Atletico led until a 93rd-minute Sergio Ramos equaliser forced extra time. He expressed that watching finals now reminds him of what could have been.
Alderweireld spent six seasons with Tottenham, making 174 Premier League appearances and 234 appearances overall. He formed a strong defensive partnership with Jan Vertonghen but did not win any silverware with the club despite reaching the 2019 Champions League final and the 2021 Carabao Cup final.
One of Alderweireld's cherished memories with Tottenham was their comeback against Ajax in the 2018/19 Champions League semi-final. Despite being 2-0 down at half-time in the second leg, Tottenham won 3-2 on the night and 3-3 on aggregate, with Lucas Moura scoring a hat-trick. Alderweireld described the feeling as 'strange' due to Ajax being one of his former clubs.
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Toby Alderweireld has revealed the two moments in his career that still haunt him, and one of them involves Tottenham Hotspur. The Belgian centre-back spent the best part of his career wearing the Lilywhite of Tottenham Hotspur, doing so for six seasons. In that time, he made an impressive 174 Premier League appearances and 234 appearances in all competitions for Spurs, forming one of the best defensive partnerships in the league with Jan Vertonghen. Sadly, though, silverware eluded the Belgian despite him being part of the golden generation under Mauricio Pochettino. The centre-back did come close to silverware a few times during his time at Spurs, having played in the 2019 Champions League final and the 2021 Carabao Cup final, games in which he ended up on the wrong side of history.
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