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Thursday 14 March 2013

Rich Giants Meet in The Quarter-final



European football giants, FC Barcelona will play wealthy French club, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in the quarter-finals of the Champions League Europe in a poll done here today.

Former England captain David Beckham finally gets a chance to play at the Nou Camp, the place where he helped Manchester United beat Bayern Munich 2-1 in the final in 1999.

Lionel Messi will be leading the four-time champion, Barcelona find another European glory after magical touches Argentina's star striker helped his team thrashed Italian football giants AC Milan 4-0 on Tuesday.

"This is the most difficult votes that we got and we'll deal with it.

"The match will not be easy but the two meet is definitely interesting and will serve great action to be seen," said PSG sporting director, Leonardo.

Meanwhile, runner-up last year, Bayern Munich were drawn against Italian champions Juventus, while nine-time champion Real Madrid will face rich Turkish club, Galatasaray.

"Galatasaray is a great team and have incredible supporters. We expect will last a tough match.

"They have great players like (Wesley) Sneijder and (Didier) Drogba, but that will not affect our core mission to hunt for Champions League title the 10th time," said the former Real Madrid striker Emilio ButragueƱo.

Another representative of Spain, Malaga will be against football giant Germany, Borussia Dortmund with a first round match held in Spain.

For the first time in over 17 years, quarter-finals of the Champions League Europe will take place without a representative England after defending champions Chelsea were knocked out in the group stage.

However, there are three representatives of England in the quarter-final second-class European competition, the Europa League, where all three of them, Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle managed to avoid collisions with each other.

Chelsea will face Russian club Rubin Kazan, Tottenham, then meet representatives of Switzerland, Basel, while Newcastle against former European champions Benfica of Portugal.

The final of the Champions League will take place at Wembley on 25 May, while the calculation to seize the Europa Cup will be held at the Amsterdam Arena on May 15.

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