Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 2:45, Trinidad Time
Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro)
Current Form (in the Champions League ONLY)
FC Barcelona:
away DDWDD
F.C. Internazionale Milano:
home DDWWW
Mourinho served as an assistant to the late Sir Bobby Robson and Louis van Gaal at Barcelona from 1996 to 2000. As Chelsea manager Mourinho oversaw a 5-4 aggregate defeat of Barcelona in the 2004/05 first knockout round but suffered a 3-2 overall loss at the same stage the next season. The 2006/07 campaign brought another reunion, this time in the group stage, with Chelsea finishing above Barηa after a 1-0 home win and 2-2 away draw.
Guardiola played in Italy between 2001 and 2003, making 24 appearances in Serie A for Brescia Calcio and another four for AS Roma.
Eto'o spent five seasons with Barcelona from 2004. The Cameroon striker hit 109 goals in 144 league appearances, including 30 last season. In the UEFA Champions League he registered 18 in 43 games, scoring Barcelona's first goals in the final triumphs of 2006 and 2009.
Motta made 96 league appearances for Barcelona between 2002 and 2007, scoring six goals. He was an unused substitute in the Blaugrana's 2-1 UEFA Champions League final defeat of Arsenal FC in 2006.
Inter forward Diego Milito, 30, could line up against his 29-year-old brother Gabriel of Barcelona. The Argentinian siblings played together for two seasons with Real Zaragoza between 2005 and 2007.
Only three sets of brothers have played against each other in UEFA club competition: Johannes (Celtic FC) and Atli Edvaldsson (Valur Reykjavνk) in the first round of the 1974/75 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Ronald (PSV Eindhoven) and Erwin Koeman (KV Mechelen) in the 1988 UEFA Super Cup and John Arne (AS Roma) and Bjψrn Helge Riise (Fulham FC) in this season's UEFA Europa League group stage.
Quaresma spent 2003/04 at the Camp Nou, making 22 Liga appearances and scoring once.
During his three-year spell at Inter, Barcelona striker Ibrahimović hit 57 goals in 88 Serie A appearances and six in 22 UEFA Champions League games.
An unused substitute for Barcelona at San Siro in September, Maxwell was also with Inter for three years from 2006 to 2009. The Brazil full-back made 79 appearances in Serie A and scored two goals.
Thierry Henry scored twice for Arsenal in a 5-1 win at Inter in the 2003/04 group stage. The France forward previously suffered a UEFA Cup semi-final defeat at Inter's hands when playing for AS Monaco FC in 1996/97.
Former Barcelona forward Jordi Cruyff son of Camp Nou favourite Johan hit the opening goal for Deportivo Alavιs when they became the first, and so far only, Spanish team to beat Inter in Milan, prevailing 2-0 in a UEFA Cup fourth-round tie in 2000/01.
The second leg is in Barcelona on 28 April. The victorious team will advance to the final in Madrid on 22 May where they will play either FC Bayern Mόnchen or Olympique Lyonnais.
Previous meetings:
These two sides need no introduction having met last autumn in the group stage. They drew 0-0 at San Siro on 16 September before reconvening in Barcelona on 24 November, the Catalan side prevailing 2-0 through first-half strikes from Gerard Piquι and Pedro Rodrνguez.
The clubs had previously met in the UEFA Champions League second group stage in 2002/03. Barcelona were 3-0 winners at the Camp Nou on 18 February 2003. Goals from Javier Saviola, Phillip Cocu and Patrick Kluivert secured a ninth successive victory in the UEFA Champions League proper, still a competition record.
The return the following week finished goalless and both teams progressed to the quarter-finals, Barcelona as group winners. Yet Inter went further that season, reaching the last four.
Inter's Javier Zanetti and Barcelona pair Carles Puyol and Xavi Hernαndez played in both matches, with Andrιs Iniesta an unused substitute at San Siro.
Handover of the trophy from the defending champions to the host club/city.
The volcano that has caused havoc for many of Europe's air travellers has affected FC Barcelona for their trip to Milan.
Initial plans called for the team to fly out Sunday to Rome via Nice and then ride by coach to Milan.
But with all of the airports throughout northern Spain closed due to ash clouds emanating from the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, the club has been forced to travel by coach a distance totalling 1,000 kilσmetros from Barcelona to Milan.
The bus took off Sunday at 14:30 for a 630km trip to Cannes where they will spend the night. On Monday they will continue the remaining 350km to Milan where they are expected to arrive sometime Monday evening.