milan coach leonardo lined up against gary neville in a 1995 friendly international at wembley, coming on as a substitute in brazil's 3-1 victory. he later faced both neville and scholes in a 1997 friendly in paris that brazil won 1-0.
beckham had a 12-year association with united, signing as a schoolboy in 1991 and making his debut in 1995. he went on to make 394 appearances in all competitions, scoring 86 goals, before leaving for real madrid in 2003.
during his time at old trafford, beckham collected six premier league winners' medals and together with ryan giggs and neville, was part of the team that won the uefa champions league final in 1999.
beckham scored his last goal at old trafford in a 4-1 league win against charlton athletic on 3 may 2003. the previous month he had registered his final uefa champions league goals in a united shirt when scoring twice in the 4-3 quarter-final home victory against madrid.
beckham and michael owen played together at madrid in 2004/05.
inzaghi played with edwin van der sar at juventus between 1999 and 2001.
inzaghi scored an 84th-minute winner for juventus when they defeated united 1-0 in turin in the uefa champions league group stage in december 1997. he also found the net twice against united in a 3-2 home loss for the bianconeri in the 1999 semi-finals.
thiago silva was in brazil's lineup for a 1-0 win against an england side including wes brown, ben foster and rooney in a friendly in qatar last november.
when ronaldinho scored brazil's winner against england in the 2002 fifa world cup quarter-finals, rio ferdinand, scholes and owen all featured on the losing side along with beckham.
ronaldinho and anderson both started their careers with brazilian club grêmio fbpa.
mathieu flamini played in the premier league for arsenal fc from 2004 to 2008, finishing on the winning side against united only twice in eight meetings.
zambrotta was in the fc barcelona side beaten by united in the 2007/08 uefa champions league semi-finals – indeed it was his misplaced pass that led to scholes scoring the only goal of the tie at old trafford.
flavio roma was a colleague of patrice evra in the as monaco fc team that lost the uefa champions league final to fc porto in 2004.
evra played in italy for lower-division clubs marsala calcio and monza calcio.
ji-sung park scored for psv eindhoven against milan in the 2005 uefa champions league semi-final, albeit in a losing cause.
