The San Siro stadium is located in western Milan and is the home of both AC Milan and Internazionale Milano. The stadium opened in 1926 with a capacity of 26 000. Today the capacity is 80 074 and the stadium sometimes hosts the Italian national team and Italian national rugby team. In 2009 Italy played the New Zealand All Blacks in front of a sold out crowd, a record for Italian rugby.
The official name of the stadium is Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, named in honour of the two-time World Cup winner (1934, 1938) who played for both Internazionale and AC Milan.

Philippe Coutinho is an attacking midfielder who plays for Italian side Internazionale Milano and Brazil. Coutinho is a brilliant dribbler, with pace and creativity. He signed for Inter in 2008 as a 16 year old. He still stayed with his Brazilian club, Vasco da Gama, on a loan-basis until arriving at Inter before the 2010-11 season. Coutinho was on the Brazilian team winning the South American U17 Championship in 2009.
On October 7th 2010 he made his first team debut in a friendly match against Iran.

Diego Milito is a striker who plays for Italian side Inter Milan and the Argentinian national team. After leaving Argentinian club Racing in 2004, Milito played for Italian side Genoa before going to Real Zaragoza in Spain. At Zaragoza he played with his younger brother Gabriel, a defender. Diego had three outstanding seasons at Zaragoza but when they were relegated he transferred back to Genoa in Italy. Milito only played one more season for Genoa, who received a huge interest from major European clubs to sign him. In May 2009 it was Internazionale who secured his signature. In Milito’s first season there Inter won the treble, including the UEFA Champions League. Milito finished as Inter’s top scorer and was later named 2010 Player of the Year in Europe. He also played for Argentina in the 2010 FIFA World Championship.

Wesley Sneijder is an attacking midfielder who plays for Inter Milan and the Dutch national team. Sneijder came up through the famous Ajax youth academy and made his senior debut as an 18 year old. The following season he won the Eredivisie with Ajax and was Young Player of the Year in Holland. In August 2007 Sneijder was sold to Real Madrid for €27 million. He played two seasons in Spain where he in the first won the double with Real Madrid.
In August 2009 Sneijder transferred from Real Madrid to Internazionale Milano in the Italian Serie A. He had an outstanding season, with Inter winning the treble which included the UEFA Champions League. He was also being picked as UEFA’s Club Midfielder of the Year. This was followed by being runners-up in the FIFA World Cup with Netherlands, where Sneijder also won the Silver Ball and was picked in the World Cup All-Star Team.

Javier Zanetti is a defensive midfielder who plays for Italian side Internazionale Milano and the Argentinian national team. Zanetti was Massimo Moratti’s first signing after he became the owner of Inter Milan. They signed him from Argentinian Club Atlético Banfield in 1995 when Zanetti was 22 years old. Since then Zanetti has been one of Inter’s key players in their way back to the top team they were known as in the 1960′s (when Massimo Moratti’s father Angelo Moratti was the owner/president of the club). Zanetti has been the captain since 1999 and he played his 700th match for the club in their victorious 2010 UEFA Champions League final. In Zanetti’s time at Inter Milan they have also won the UEFA Cup, 5 Serie A titles and 3 Italian Cups.
Zanetti made his debut for Argentina in 1994. He played for his country at the 1996 Olympics and both the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups. However he was left out of the Argentinian squad for both the 2006 and the 2010 World Cups, decisions which were heavily criticized by football fans the world over. Zanetti is by a long way the player who has played most matches for Argentina: 137 and still counting.