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From underdog triumphs to record-breaking comebacks, some teams don't just win — they become immortal. Join us as we count down the exact moments that transformed sports teams into living legends! Our countdown includes Leicester City's stunning Premier League upset, the Miracle on Ice, Liverpool's comeback in Istanbul, and more! Which moment gave you chills? Let us know in the comments!
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00:00It's over! And the Cubs have finally won it all!
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo!
00:06And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 moments that sports teams managed to ascend to the
00:10status of legends.
00:18Number 10. Leicester City complete the most unlikely title run ever.
00:22Just one season before their stunning 2016 Premier League triumph, Leicester City were battling relegation.
00:28We were basically dead and buried.
00:30After powering their way to safety, they carried that momentum into the 2015-2016 campaign,
00:35slowly finding themselves on the brink of a historic title victory.
00:39Leicester dare to dream that the great escape is on.
00:43And that momentum just carried in because we found a way to win now.
00:47English football fans couldn't believe what they were watching, and yet when May arrived, the most unlikely of champions had
00:52emerged.
00:52With 5,000 to 1 odds at the start of the season, their climb to glory made the entire squad
00:57and manager Claudio Ranieri nothing short of royalty to the club's fans from that point onwards.
01:03Leicester City! Leicester City are the champions of England!
01:09Number 9. India wins the 1983 Cricket World Cup Final.
01:12With the right team and the right timing, the popularity of a sport can truly explode in a country to
01:17entirely new levels.
01:18The Indians are loving every moment of this.
01:19For India, their heroics in the 1983 Cricket World Cup set in motion a chain of events that led the
01:24sport to become a national obsession.
01:26They came into the tournament as underdogs, but with the leadership of Kapil Dev,
01:30they overcame their opposition to meet the fearsome West Indies in the final.
01:33Beautifully caught. He's hit that away to within 15 yards of the boundary, and the Indian skipper has done a
01:43tremendous job to get back there.
01:45Despite oddsmakers counting them out, they pulled off a massive victory, turning the team into a trailblazing force that radically
01:51shifted the country's sporting identity.
01:54And that's out. Yes, it's all over this time.
01:57Number 8. The Springboks United Nations Through Rugby Glory.
02:00There's no denying the unifying power of sports, but in the case of South Africa's 1995 World Cup conquest,
02:05there was a truly profound level of political and cultural impact.
02:08The atmosphere at the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final was nothing short of electric. It was an amazing place.
02:16The tournament took place just one year after the country's first democratic election.
02:19And while the Springboks were once associated with division, this year was different.
02:22Their victory over New Zealand in the final was a major moment for the nation's growth.
02:26There it is. Francois Pina. And Nelson Mandela is cheering along with the whole of the stadium.
02:37To this day, Nelson Mandela's appearance in the Springbok jersey remains an enduring image of reconciliation and progress.
02:43Few sporting teams in history have had this type of impact outside of the actual games being contested.
02:47Not in my wildest dreams did I think that Nelson Mandela would pitch up at the final wearing the Springbok
02:52on his heart.
02:53And when he walked into our changing room to say good luck to us.
02:56And he turned around and my number was on his back. It was just an amazing feeling.
03:02Number 7. Liverpool rise from the dead in Istanbul.
03:05No list of the greatest footballing comebacks in history would be complete without a mention of the miracle of Istanbul.
03:11AC Milan were the front runners in their Champions League showdown with Liverpool storming to a 3-0 lead relatively
03:16early in the contest.
03:17There was an air of dejection from the travelling English support who began to suspect that Milan were about to
03:21run away with the game.
03:22However, in the second half bolstered by the leadership of Steven Gerrard, Liverpool mounted a comeback fighting their way to
03:27a 3-3 scoreline before winning it on penalties.
03:30It was a result that sent their fans into hysterics, making the entire squad heroes to the club's fan base
03:35for years afterwards.
03:37Number 6. The Patriots complete the greatest Super Bowl comeback ever.
03:40Under the bright lights of America's biggest sporting event, every ounce of pressure is doubled.
03:44This is not what you want to see.
03:46However, that didn't stop Tom Brady and the Patriots from producing a truly miraculous turnaround at Super Bowl 51.
03:51Overcoming a deficit of 28-3 is almost impossible under any circumstances.
03:55But they pulled victory from the jaws of defeat in shocking fashion.
04:00Brady, end zone touchdown!
04:02With Brady leading the charge, the Patriots storm back to somehow win by a margin of six points.
04:07If ever there was a game that sums up the idea of never say die, this was it.
04:12He's in! Patriots win the Super Bowl! Brady has his fifth! What a comeback!
04:20Number 5. Diego Maradona at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
04:23The storied career of Diego Maradona was filled to the brim with legendary achievements, but even by his standards, the
04:291986 FIFA World Cup was insane.
04:31He was a truly outstanding talent, and the ability he possessed was beyond compared.
04:37Alongside his Argentine teammates, he was able to lead the team to glory through some of the most incredible performances
04:42in the history of the game.
04:43Turn past two, and runs away from Reid, and then gets past Butcher, and past another, and Maradona goes on!
04:53And scores! One of the greatest goals the World Cup has ever seen!
04:58Don't get us wrong, there was quality all over the pitch, but Maradona was taking things to another level.
05:03Scoring two of the most famous goals in football history in the same match just minutes apart is impressive.
05:07However, if Argentina didn't cap it all off by taking home the trophy, it wouldn't carry the same significance.
05:13Argentina are champions of the world again! An incredible finish to this game!
05:25Number four, Michael Jordan and the Bulls finally reach basketball immortality.
05:29The road that led Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls to become the icons that they became in the 1990s
05:33wasn't as short as some people believe.
05:35They're all thinking about that championship that's oh so close at hand. I asked Jordan about winning it at home,
05:39and he said,
05:40you know what, we want to win it whenever and wherever we can, and we feel like we can win
05:44it tonight.
05:45For years beforehand, they came up against brick wall after brick wall, and even the individual brilliance of Jordan wasn't
05:51enough to carry them over the finish line.
05:52In 1991 though, it all came together.
05:54And the Chicago Bulls have won their first ever NBA championship!
06:01After finally beating the two-time champions, the Detroit Pistons, they managed to overcome the Lakers in five games to
06:06take home gold.
06:07It was a win that made them heroes to the Chicago people. Little did they know that five more titles
06:12would follow before the decade was through.
06:14The celebration has begun in the Chicago locker room!
06:18Number three, Manchester United complete football's greatest treble.
06:21While the concept of pulling off a treble seems simple, the difficulty of winning your domestic league, domestic cup, and
06:26then also the Champions League could not be more difficult.
06:28For Manchester United, after becoming champions of England and winning the FA Cup, they went right down to the wire
06:33with Bayern Munich at Barcelona's Camp Nou.
06:36After the German giants pulled ahead with the lead, it took a later equalizer to save United from defeat.
06:41Despite extra time looming, they opted to press their advantage, and in one of the most dramatic last-minute goals
06:45imaginable,
06:46Ole Gunnar Solskjaer sealed the treble, one of the great full-season performances from a European club.
06:51Number two, the Red Sox reversed baseball history against the Yankees.
06:54Out of all of the great sporting curses, few stood the test of time quite like the Curse of the
06:58Bambino.
06:59The Curse of the Bambino started the Red Sox, sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees for $100,000.
07:05Ruth, of course, won four World Series with the Yanks, hit 659 home runs with them.
07:10It took the Red Sox 86 years to win their next World Series.
07:14Between the years 1918 and 2004, the Boston Red Sox had failed to win the World Series.
07:18Their fans began to genuinely believe that something otherworldly was working against their team,
07:22and yet, just after the turn of the century, everything changed.
07:25The Boston Red Sox have won the pennant.
07:29After going three games behind their rivals, the New York Yankees,
07:32the Red Sox mounted a comeback that kick-started a charge to the championship.
07:36After vanquishing the Yankees, they swept the Cardinals to prove once and for all
07:39that curses have no true place in the world of sport.
07:42The Boston Red Sox are world champions.
07:45Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.
07:48Sergio Aguero delivers Manchester City's most dramatic coronation.
07:52The moment that the city of Manchester officially turned blue.
08:10Spain's tiki-taka era reaches its unstoppable peak.
08:12International football hits a totally new level of technical brilliance.
08:15The Spanish are desperate to hear the final whistle.
08:19There it is! Spain are world champions, 2010!
08:24The Eagles and Nick Foles shocked the Patriots' dynasty.
08:27The moment when footballing empire was toppled.
08:29Time runs out!
08:31This is the end of the game.
08:34And for the Philadelphia Eagles, the long drought is over.
08:40Finally!
08:41The Miracle Mets shocked baseball and win the World Series,
08:44when the Mets managed to utterly rewrite baseball's championship lore.
08:47The Mets are the world champions!
08:52Gary Kuzman being mobbed!
08:56Look at this scene!
08:57LeBron James delivered Cleveland's long-awaited championship.
09:00One of the modern era's greatest stars achieves major history.
09:03It's over! It's over!
09:05Cleveland is a city of champions once again!
09:08The Cavaliers are NBA champions!
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09:24Number 1. The Miracle on Ice Redefines American Hockey Forever
09:27There are unlikely victories, and then there's a category entirely reserved for the moment known as the Miracle on Ice.
09:33At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet team was considered virtually unbeatable, composed of seasoned professionals playing a
09:38systematized style of hockey.
09:40The hockey team was better than everybody else.
09:43They won their games with ease. There was nothing to celebrate for them. They were supposed to win.
09:48The United States team, largely made up of amateur and collegiate players under Coach Herb Brooks, were far less credentialed.
09:53They were treating some of us not with respect.
09:57And I think in the world of sport, you have to respect all your opponents.
10:00So I just kept telling them, someone's gonna beat them, someone's gonna beat them, someone's gonna beat them.
10:05When the teams met at Lake Placid, the Americans somehow found it within themselves to do the unthinkable.
10:10Beating the favorites when nobody believed they could.
10:12The word miracle is used quite a lot in sports. In this case, it is fully deserved.
10:15We restored the pride and patriotism that makes this country so great, not even knowing it.
10:20But what do you consider to be the greatest sporting moment of all time? Let us know in the comments
10:24below.
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