Real Madrid's impressive trophy cabinet now includes a dozen alone from the Champions Cup/League, and Zinedine Zidane has now contributed to three of them.
Back in 2002 he scored a spectacular winner against Bayer Leverkusen, and he has now added two more as coach of the Whites in just 17 months on the job.
To top it all up, Saturday's 4-1 demolition of Juventus made Real the first team to defend the title in the Champions League era, with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring a brace as Real dismantled a Juve defence which had just let in three goals in the previous 12 games.
"Today is a truly historic day," the 44-year-old Zidane said. "I feel extremely proud of every player."
Frenchman Zidane won the World Cup and European championship as well as many club titles during his glittering playing career which ended in 2007, but he also went through disappointment such as a red card in the 2006 World Cup final and two lost Champions League finals with Juventus during his five-year term there 1996-2001.
The second of those defeats was against Real 1998 before he joined them in 2001 for his last six seasons as a player. He later became assistant coach and was promoted to first-team helmsman from the reserves in January 2016.
There were plenty of doubts around the appointment as great players don't automatically make great coaches, and Zidane had never coached a first team before when he took over the difficult Real dressing room.
Now the players are simply raving after the big success which also included a first Spanish league and Champions Cup/League double in 58 years - mainly because he managed to keep all players happy and fresh by rotating a lot.
"I could talk all day about how fabulous he is," full-back Marcelo said on the eve of the latest final.
Midfielder Toni Kroos said: "What he did unbelievably well this season was to give everyone the feeling to be important."
Zidane echoed this by saying "the key is that everyone is important" and said he felt privileged to be part of the most successful club on the continent - with seemingly no plans to leave when his contract ends in 12 months.
"I can't confirm I will stay all my life. But I am happy and very grateful to this club to give me opportunity to train these great players," he said.
"I am really happy, I feel like dancing. I owe it to this club. I feel like a man of the house, the club is in my heart."
On Saturday, Zidane found the right words at half-time when the score was 1-1, and with Ronaldo, captain Sergio Ramos, Isco and others also still hungry for more the success run may continue in the future.
"Next year will be even more difficult. We will have to work very very hard to win once again," he said.
Zidane named himself "part of this team" which wore down Juve with a unwavering winning mentality from all the big titles in the past and wins in now 12 of their 15 finals in the event.
That separated them from Juventus who have just two wins, the last one in 1996, and have now lost seven finals, including the last five.
"Real has players of great abilities, they have played five or six finals. Juve are still improving," Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri said after they were outplayed in front of a 66,000-strong crowd.
Veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon agreed that his team lacked the winning mentality Real showed, and although they will try again next year Real will now be setting their sights on becoming the first team since Bayern Munich 1974-76 to win the showcase event three years in a row.
Ronaldo for his part is ready to do his share again, after scoring 10 of Real's 14 goals since the quarter-final stage, becoming tournament top scorer a fifth straight year.
On Saturday, he first scored Real's 500th Champions League goal and then his own 600th which should also silence any remaining critics from the spoilt Real fan base.
"Numbers don't lie," he said, while quickly making a u-turn a few minutes later when it comes to his age of 32: "Age is just a number. I feel like a young boy."
By John Bagratuni
