Youth, PSG and Monaco’s bet to shine in the Champions League

It was the symbol of pre-Bosman football, three foreign players (Jari Litmanen, Finidi George and Nwankwo Kanu) and ten local guys, two executives (Danny Blind and Frank Rijkaard) in the middle of the blues: nine of the thirteen players who entered play in the final were 24 and under, and six were 22 and under (Reiziger, Davids and Overmars, 22, Seedorf, 19, Kluivert and Kanu, 18).