A security guard keeps watch as the Chelsea team arrive at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, May 19, 2008. UEFA are confident that Manchester United and Chelsea fans attending the Champions League final in Moscow will not cause trouble similar to the riots that blighted the UEFA Cup final in Manchester last week.
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Soccer Players Arrive in Moscow for Final
British soccer players from the Chelsea and Manchester United teams arrived in Moscow Monday evening. On Wednesday, they will face each other on the field at Luzhniki Stadium in the UEFA League of Champions final. The Chelsea planes arrived at Vnukovo-3 Airport at about 8:00 p.m. The Manchester team’s plane arrived approximately simultaneously at Domodedovo Airport.
Chelsea players will stay in the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Tverskaya St., and Manchester’s will be in the Crowne Plaza on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment. Hotel administrators have assured journalists that the players will live in full comfort, as agreed upon in advance with team managers.
The final match of the League of Champions will be held on May 21 at 10:45 p.m. local time. It became known earlier on Monday that Slovakian referee Lubos Michel will take charge of the match.
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