Uefa Champions League trivia

The UEFA Champions League is final stage is almost upon us. We thought it might be a good idea to brush up on some trivia to impress your friends or the football-crazed significant other or just to spice up the pre-match and half-time intervals courtesy of espnstar.com.

So, did you know that?•The youngest player to play in the Champions League is Celestine Babayaro while he was on the books for Anderlecht, against Steaua Bucuresti in 23 November 1994, aged 16 years and 87 days.•Marseille was the first club to lift the European trophy since its conversion to the Champions League format in 1993?•No English club won the Champions League title (in its new format) until Manchester United?•Milan, Liverpool, Ajax and Manchester United are the only teams to have won the trophy unbeaten twice?•Paolo Maldini has played in Champions Cup/Champions League finals in three different decades?•Clarence Seedorf is the only player to win the Champions League with three different teams? The Dutchman won them with Ajax in 1994/95, Real Madrid 1997/98, and AC Milan in 2002/03 and 2006/07.•AC Milan are the last team to successfully defend the European title, winning it in both 1989 and 1990?•Hernan Crespo is the only player to have scored for five different teams in the competition? The teams were Parma, Lazio, Inter Milan, Chelsea and AC Milan.•Didier Drogba is the only non-European by nationality to be in the top-ten all-time top-scorers (in the new Champions League format)?

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