Today the Champions League Final will be played in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
Manchester United will face Chelsea in an all England Final, well, thats how it's been promoted in the media.
OK, lets look at the teams.
Manchester United team: Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Heaton; Brown, Evra, Ferdinand, Vidic, Neville, O'Shea, Pique, Silvestre, Anderson, Fletcher, Hargreaves, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs, Nani, Park, Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez, Saha, Welbeck.
Chelsea team: Cech, Hilario, Cudicini, Belletti, Ferreira, Alex, Ben-Haim, Terry, Carvalho, A Cole, Bridge, Makelele, Essien, Lampard, Ballack, Kalou, Wright-Phillips, J Cole, Malouda, Drogba, Shevchenko, Anelka, Mikel.
If I count correctly, there are 15 non English players in the Man. U squad and 17 non English players in the Chelsea squad.
Stating that it will be an all English final can't be more wrong. In fact, it is probably the most international game of the season, with players from a dozen different countries.
Blatter was criticized for trying to put a limit on foreigners in teams.
Some people in the Premier League said it was out of jealousy because the Premier league is the strongest league in the world.
Maybe so, but tell me, how come England didn't qualify for Euro 2008?
Because most off the top players in England are not English!
Besides all that, the two teams deserve to be in the Final.
So it will be a very International game tonight.
And lets hope it will be of great quality and let the best team win.
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