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Ceferin still looking for the right balance in European football

By Brian Homewood
FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - UEFA Nations League Group Draw - Lausanne, Switzerland - January 24, 2018 UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin with the trophy during the draw REUTERS/Pierre Albouy

MONACO (Reuters) - Back in the 1980s and earlier 1990s, a small, ramshackle ground in a Swiss lakeside city turned into an elephants' graveyard for some of the biggest names in European football.

Real Madrid were beaten there twice while Bayern Munich, Sporting and Dynamo Kiev also came away from La Maladiere defeated.

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