FC Barcelona Blog provides you with a summary of fact & figures, released on Barca´s official website today:
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The coaching staff of FC Barcelona won five European Cups in their playing days: Rijkaard has three (2 with Milan, one with Ajax), Eusebio and director of football Txiki Begiristain one each (both 1992 at Wembley, London).
Deco is the only Barca player of the current squad who has won the trophy before (with Porto).
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Arsène Wenger has only used two English players so far in this season's Champions League Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole.
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No fewer than eight Barca players - Edmilson, Ronaldinho, Deco, Giuly, Belletti, Eto'o, Márquez and Gio - have already played in the Stade de France, either with their national sides or with their former clubs.
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Giuly and Deco have already played a Champions League final with Monaco and Porto respectively. No current Arsenal player has ever played in the Champions League final.
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Arsenal has six French players, two of them born in Paris -Diaby and Henry. Barca's sole French player is Giuly, who was born in Lyon but Ronaldinho started his sensational European career at Paris Saint Germain in Paris
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This will be FC Barcelona's 16th European final and the 5th in the European Cup/Champions League. In addition, the club played in the 1992 Intercontinental Cup. For Arsenal, this will be their 5th European final and the 1st in the Champions League.
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Of the three European finals lost by Arsenal, two have been against teams from the Spanish league. In the 1979-80 season, Valencia beat Arsenal in the final of the Cup Winners Cup and Zaragoza beat the English side in the same competition in the Parc des Princes in Paris in the 1994-95 season, with a goal from former Barca player Nayim.
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FC Barcelona director of football, Txiki Begiristain and Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger have both spent part of their careers in the Japanese league. Txiki played for Urawa Red Diamonds between 1997 and 1999 while Wenger managed the Nagoya Grampus Eight between 1994 and 1996.
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Larsson and Bergkamp, two illustrious names in European football in the last decade, will play their last games for Barca and Arsenal respectively. Neither of them has ever won the Champions League.
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Barça and Arsenal have only met twice before in competitive matches - in the 1999-2000 Champions League. They drew 1-1 in the Nou Camp but Barca won 2-4 in London. Four players who took part in those matches could figure in Wednesday's game - Gabri for Barca and Bergkamp, Ljungberg and Henry for Arsenal.
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Seven players from the two teams have taken part in a World Cup final. Edmilson, Ronaldinho and Gilberto Silva played in the 2002 final, while Belletti and Lehman (for Germany) had to be content with a place on the subs bench. In the 1998 final between France and Brazil, French players Henry and Pires were on the bench for France.
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In recent years, four players have moved from Arsenal to Barca - Marc Overmars, Emmanuel Petit, Gio and Sylvinho while Cesc moved in the opposite direction.
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In two of the four finals played by Barca, the players have not worn the traditional 'blaugrana' colours: in Seville (1986) the players wore sky blue and in London (1992), orange. However, in Paris, Barca will be counted as the home team and will wear the famous "blaugrana" Brca shirts.
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Ronaldinho (7 goals) and Eto'o (5) have scored (13) almost as many goals in the competition this season as the entire Arsenal squad (14).
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Cesc Fàbregas and Lionel Messi, born in 1987, played together in the Barca successful Barca 87 youth teams that also produced players such as Gerard Piqué (Manchester United) and Marc Pedraza (Espanyol).
