Redouane Achik (Morocco), Maniel Candido (Angola)
Jerome Damon (South Africa)
Celestin Ntagungira (Rwanda), Enock Molefe
Franck De Bleeckere (Belgium)
Peter Hermans, Walter Vromans
Martin Hansson (Sweden)
Henrik Andren, Stefan Wittberg
Michael Hester (New Zealand)
Jan-Hendrik Hintz, Tevita Makasini (Tonga)
Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)
Rafael Ilyasov, Bahadyr Kochkarov (Kyrgyzstan)
Victor Kassai (Hungary)
Gabor Eros, Tibor Vamos
Stephane Lannoy (France)
Eric Dansault, Laurent Ugo
Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)
Pablo Fandino, Maurico Espinosa
Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)
Evarist Menkouande (Cameroon), Bechir Hassani (Tunisia)
Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (Malaysia)
Yuxin Mu (China), Jeffrey Gek Pheng (Singapore)
Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)
Toru Sagara, Jeong Hae-sang (South Korea)
Peter O’Leary (New Zealand)
Brent Best, Matthew Taro (Solomon Islands)
Marco Rodriguez (Mexico)
Jose Luis Camaego, Alberto Morin
Roberto Rosetti (Italy)
Paolo Calcagno, Stefano Ayroldi
Oscar Ruiz (Colombia)
Abraham Gonzalez, Humberto Clavijo
Carlos Eugenio Simon (Brazil)
Altemir Hausmann, Roberto Braatz
Wolfgang Stark (Germany)
Jan Salver, Mike Pickel
Alberto Undiano (Spain)
Fermin Martinez, Juan Carlos Yuste
Howard Webb (England)
Darren Cann, Michael Mullarkey
Not many column inches have been written about Atletico, whose European high point came in tying the 1974 European Cup satta king Final with Bayern, before losing the replay. Their domestic hour of glory was the league and cup double of 1996, but the Spanish capital’s second club have struggled to break the Barca-Real log-jam since. Coach Quique Sanchez Flores, has only been in the job since October, but has hauled the Rojiblancos to the Copa del Rey final as well as this one.
But Roy Hodgson remains the real hero of the hour. He rather resembles an English coach of the ’30s or ’50s, having dragged his suitcase of coaching manuals around eight countries. Should Fabio Capello call it a day now, he would appear an inspired choice to replace him.
Into his seventh decade, Hodgson has distilled a simple football philosophy which has guided one of the Premier League’s poorer teams into a European final for the first time. Fulham, that cosy little club by the Thames no-one has a bad word to say about.
Like Odysseus, he has led his warriors on an odyssey through many trials, the last of which is tonight, before he can bring them home with their booty.
Possible lineups:Fulham – Schwarzer; Pantsil, Hangeland, Hughes, Konchesky, Davies, Murphy, Etuhu, Duff, Gera, Zamora
Atletico – De Gea, Valera, Dominguez, Perea, Antonio Lopez, Reyes, Assuncao, Raul Garcia, Simao, Aguero, Forlan
(c) Sean O’Conor & Soccerphile
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