Ronaldo at Man Utd tops trends since a UCL final didn't include an English, Spanish or German side

Saturday's UEFA Champions League Final betwixt Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain is simply a uncommon matchup successful the competition.

The 2 sides person ne'er faced disconnected against each other, and they person differing pedigrees successful the Champions League. Inter Milan has won the contention 3 times -- astir precocious successful 2010 -- portion PSG has ne'er raised the trophy, past appearing successful a last successful 2020.

Besides the on-pitch unfamiliarity betwixt the 2 sides, Saturday marks the archetypal Champions League last since 2004 that won't diagnostic a broadside from England, Spain oregon Germany. That year, Portuguese nine FC Porto defeated French nine AS Monaco 3-0, giving manager José Mourinho his archetypal Champions League crown.

Here's a look backmost astatine what the satellite looked similar surrounding that last -- May 26, 2004.

Sports' biggest names successful antithetic stages

Neither club's respective apical scorer successful the 2025 contention -- Ousmane Dembélé for PSG, Lautaro Martínez for Inter -- was yet 10 years aged erstwhile Porto won the Champions League. Going a measurement further, nary existent subordinate connected Inter oregon PSG had adjacent started his elder career.

Some of the different large names crossed satellite shot were successful a akin position.

Lionel Messi hadn't appeared successful a elder crippled for Barcelona yet. Cristiano Ronaldo had conscionable completed his archetypal play with Manchester United, notching 4 goals and 4 assists implicit 29 matches. Barcelona prima Lamine Yamal, who scored a extremity against Inter successful this season's semifinals, wouldn't beryllium calved for different 3 years.

Usher dominating the charts

Usher earned 1 of his 9 vocation No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits a week earlier Porto won the Champions League. "Burn" leaped from No. 3 to the top, overtaking different of the Super Bowl LVIII's halftime performer's tracks for the spot: "Yeah!" featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon.

That way moved down to No. 3, down Mario Winans' "I Don't Wanna Know." "Burn" spent 8 weeks astatine No. 1, making it 1 of Usher's longest-grossing tracks to pb the charts. It was nominated for Best R&B Song and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance astatine the 47th Grammy Awards.

'Shrek 2' successful midst of beardown run

The archetypal sequel to the 2001 film, "Shrek 2" released connected May 19, 2004, and became the hottest movie of the year. It grossed a whopping $929,097,647 worldwide and received 2 nominations for the 77th Academy Awards: Animated Feature Film positive Music (Original Song).

"Shrek 2" besides was nominated for 2 awards astatine the 47th Grammy Awards: Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, positive Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media.

NBA playoffs boast acquainted sides

The last 4 of the 2004 NBA playoffs included 2 teams successful akin stages this postseason -- the Indiana Pacers and Minnesota Timberwolves. Neither squad went connected to the NBA Finals. Minnesota didn't scope that signifier of the playoffs again until past season.

The time of the Champions League final, the Detroit Pistons defeated the Pacers to instrumentality a 2-1 pb successful the series. Detroit would adjacent the matchup retired successful six games. Minnesota had mislaid the time before, with the Los Angeles Lakers besides taking a 2-1 bid pb and past winning successful six.

'Friends' finale airs

The finale of the iconic sitcom "Friends" ran connected May 6, 2004, to the tune of 52.5 cardinal viewers, the fourth-most watched finale successful U.S. tv history, according to IMDB. Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Bing, ad-libbed the last enactment of the series: "where?"

Titled "The Last One," the two-part occurrence was 1 of 2 successful the bid that didn't commencement with "The One..." The different was "The Pilot."