A week after the game covered itself in shame by giving FIFA's unpopular leader Sepp Blatter an opportunity to keep presiding over an organisation that has become a global embarrassment, two of the pillars of European football will clash for the world's biggest club prize.
The game needs a lift and the two giants of La Liga and Serie A certainly can provide it.
They are both chasing a rare treble, having won their domestic league and cup in convincing fashion.
Only seven clubs have managed this feat: Celtic in 1967, Ajax in 1972, PSV in 1988, Manchester United in 1999, Barcelona in 2009, Inter Milan in 2010 and Bayern Munich in 2013.
Regardless of the outcome of the showdown at the Olimpiastadion - the venue of the 2006 World Cup final - the two teams that have played a major part in making the Champions League what it is today will be expected to put on a show that truly reflects the quality and stature of the competition.
Barca is favourite to land its fifth continental crown while Juve is chasing its third.
Luis Enrique's side this season has played the finest and most eye-catching football in Europe.
This is hardly surprising when one considers that the young coach can count on three South American superstars in Brazil's Neymar, Uruguay's Luis Suarez and Argentina's little genius Lionel Messi, who warmed up for Berlin with an extraordinary goal against Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final which Barca won 3-1.
It is an attacking trio to rock the most stable of defences and Juve will have to devise ways to stop this formidable juggernaut if it is to complete a stunning comeback since its demotion to the third division in 2006 for its part in a match-fixing scandal.
Massimo Allegri faces the biggest test of his coaching career yet he is unlikely to take up former Juve star Gianluca Vialli's suggestion that the 'Bianconeri' should park the bus and hope for Barca to have an off-day.
"There's nothing criminal about the (Jose) Mourinho way," Vialli told Milan's Gazzetta dello Sport.
While Barcelona's free-scoring attack has come in for plenty of praise this season, its much-improved defence has often been overlooked.
Marc-Andre ter Stegen has provided much-needed assurance in goal while Gerard Pique and Javier Mascherano are playing the best football of their careers, which might explain why Barca has conceded only 21 goals in 38 league matches this season.
Last year it gave away 33 goals in finishing second to Atletico Madrid.
Juve's hopes will rest on the experience of goalkeeper Gigi Buffon and the cultured right foot of playmaker Andre Pirlo.
The two Azzurri heroes have fond memories of a summer's evening at the same Olimpiastadion in July 2006 when Italy won the World Cup.
Main striker Carlos Tevez, too, will have a key role to play as Juve tries to beat the odds and take the trophy back to Italy for the first time in five years.
This 60th European Cup/Champions League final has all the makings of an Italo-Hispanic classic.
It brings together two form teams with enough stars in their ranks to provide plenty of magic moments to remember.
The world is sick of talking about FIFA and Blatter and it's about time we focus on the real football that is played on the pitch.
