Sports · May 25, 2005

2005 UEFA Champions League Final

Name: 2005 UEFA Champions League Final
Start: 2005-05-25
Location: Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Turkey

21 years ago · Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Turkey

21st anniversary

The 2005 UEFA Champions League final was the final match of the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, Europe's primary club football competition. The showpiece event was contested between Milan of Italy and Liverpool of England at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul on 25 May 2005.

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The 22nd anniversary falls on May 25, 2027.

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b. 1968

Paolo Maldini

Paolo Cesare Maldini (Italian pronunciation:; born 26 June 1968) is an Italian football executive and former professional footballer who most recently served as the president of the technical sector of the Italian Football Federation.

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b. 1975

Hernán Crespo

Hernán Jorge Crespo (Spanish pronunciation:; born 5 July 1975) is an Argentine professional football coach and former player. He is considered one of the best strikers in the history of the Argentina national team.

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b. 1976

Andriy Shevchenko

Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Андрій Миколайович Шевченко, pronounced; born 29 September 1976) is a Ukrainian former football manager and player. Shevchenko is considered one of the greatest strikers of all time and Ukraine's greatest ever player.

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b. 1979

Andrea Pirlo

Andrea Pirlo (Italian pronunciation:; born 19 May 1979) is an Italian football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of UAE Pro League club Dubai United.

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b. 1980

Steven Gerrard

Steven George Gerrard (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional football manager and a former player who most recently managed Saudi Pro League club Al Ettifaq.

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b. 1981

Xabi Alonso

Xabier Alonso Olano (Basque:, Spanish:; born 25 November 1981) is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Chelsea. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, he was known for his passing range and long-distance shooting.

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b. 1982

Kaká

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (Brazilian Portuguese:; born 22 April 1982), commonly known as Kaká (Brazilian Portuguese: ) or Ricardo Kaká, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

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1803–1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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PhilosophyDied aged 78

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1865–1943

Pieter Zeeman

Pieter Zeeman (25 May 1865 – 9 October 1943) was a Dutch experimental physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

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ScienceDied aged 78

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b. 1939

Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. Widely considered one of Britain’s greatest actors, he is noted for his versatile roles on stage and screen, in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction.

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b. 1976

Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy ( KILL-ee-ən; born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor and film producer. His works encompass both stage and screen, and his accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

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