The team was believe to have made history in the Champions League for having starting players from different countries. While it is still unconfirmed by UEFA, for now, we hold this to be unprecedented. The unique line up was created when Toure, one of the 2 Ivory Coast players, left in the 29th minute. As he did, the team then looked like this:
Jens Lehmann (Germany); Emmanuel Eboue (Ivory Coast), Johan Djourou (Switzerland), Justin Hoyte (England), William Gallas (France); Tomas Rosicky (Czech Republic), Gilberto (Brazil), Cesc Fabregas (Spain), Alexander Hleb (Belarus); Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo), Robin van Persie (Holland).
However, one paper in the U, the Daily Telegraph notes that at one point in 2002, Fulham already was in the same situation. Their team was this:
Maik Taylor (Northern Ireland); Steve Finnan (Republic of Ireland), Pierre Wome (Cameroon), Andy Melville (Wales); Abdeslam Ouaddou (Morocco), Bjarne Goldbaek (Denmark), John Collins (Scotland), Junichi Inamoto (Japan); Barry Hayles (Jamaica), Andrejs Stolcers (Latvia).
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