Players from 19 different countries will be represented Wednesday when AC Milan and Liverpool play in the Champions League final in Istanbul, Turkey.

Six-time champion Milan will have three Brazilians in the starting lineup and one on the bench, along with two Dutch stars, a Ukrainian, an Argentine striker with maybe a Dane, a Georgian and a Portuguese in reserve.

Liverpool can beat that easily. Rafa Benitez' team most likely will have nine different nationalities on the field when the game begins, with two more on the bench.

Liverpool has a Polish goalkeeper (Jerzy Dudek), defenders from Ireland (Steve Finnan), Finland (Sami Hyypia) and France (Djimi Traore), midfielders from Spain (Luis Garcia and Xabi Alonso), Germany (Dietmar Hamann) and Norway (John Arne Riise) and forwards from the Czech Republic (Milan Baros and Vladimir Smicer). On the bench, Benitez has Australian forward Harry Kewell and Croatian midfielder Igor Biscan.

Milan has four Italian starters, while Liverpool has two English.

Milan enters the game at Ataturk Stadium as the clear favorite. Carlo Ancelotti's team boasts an experienced back line, well-organized midfield and Ukraine's Andriy Shevchenko and maybe Argentina's Hernan Crespo supported in attack by Brazilian star Kaka.