Mathieu Flamini is a defensive midfielder who plays for Italian side AC Milan. He has also represented the French national team. Flamini came up through the youth ranks of Olympique de Marseille. He played four seasons for English side Arsenal before joining AC Milan in May 2008.

Alessandro Nesta is a centre back who plays for Italian side AC Milan. He has also been capped 76 times for Italy. After coming up through Lazio’s youth system Nesta moved to AC Milan in 2002, when Lazio were in serious financial trouble. Nesta won several titles with Lazio, including the 1999 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and the 2000 Italian double. With AC Milan he has won the Serie A, the Coppa Italia and twice the UEFA Champions League.
Nesta retired from the Italian national team after the 2006 FIFA World Championship, after ten years of service. Nesta will be 35 years old at the end of the 2010-11 season but is still capable of making an impact at the highest level for AC Milan.

Oguchi Onyewu is an American defender who plays for Portuguese side Sporting Clube de Portugal and the USA. Onyewu played college soccer in the United States before moving to French club Metz in 2002. He struggled to get play time at Metz and was put on loan to Belgian clubs La Louvière in 203, and to Standard Liège the following year. He made his breakthrough at Liège and was voted best foreign player in the Belgian league. In his home country he was also voted 2006 US Soccer Athlete of the Year. In 2007 he had a brief loan spell with English side Newcastle in the Premier League. The Newcastle wasn’t a great success and Onyewu returned to Standard Liège, where he continued playing well and won two consecutive league titles.
In July 2009 Onyewu signed with AC Milan. Unfortunately he got injured early in the season, while playing for his country, and missed the remainder of the 2009-10 season. For the last half of the 2010-11 season Onyewu was on loan to Dutch side Twente. In June 2011 he was sold to Sporting Clube de Portugal where he signed a three year deal.
Onyewu made his debut for the United States national team in 2003. He played in both the 2006 and the 2010 FIFA World Championships.

Zlatan Ibrahimović arrived at AC Milan ahead of the 2010/11 season, on loan from Barcelona.
Zlatan signed for Barcelona in February 2009 for a record transfer fee of €69 million, after three brilliant years at Inter Milan. Zlatan has also played for Juventus, Ajax and Malmö FF.
So far Zlatan has also played 65 times for Sweden, netting 25 times. He is also Sweden’s current captain.

Gennaro Gattuso is a defensive midfielder who plays for Italian side AC Milan. He has also been capped 73 times for the Italian national team. Gattuso played a huge part for the winning Italian side in the 2006 FIFA World Championship. With AC Milan he has won the UEFA Champions League twice, the Italian Cup and Serie A once each.