Finland - United Kingdom tonight - 19:00 UK-time, 20:00 CET, 21:00 FIN-time!

International Challenge 2 starts tonight with the exciting opening match Finland - United Kingdom. The teams have faced each other three times, all of them ending in a Finland victory (2-0, 7-0, 2-0). The teams battled in the EURO2008 final, and haven't played any international matches after that, so we can talk about some real rivalry and emotional match here.

The match starts around 20:10 of Central European Time. Add an hour if your from Finland, take one off if your from United Kingdom. But there's lots of happening already before the kick-off, so be ready to arrive a bit earlier.

Players are advised to show-up on around 19:30 Central European Time.

Things to remind on today's match:

• The players announcement is about 20-30 minutes before the kick-off. Pay attention, follow the rules given by the organizers and join the announcement.
• In the moment of writing, teams haven't yet published their match rosters. Which leads to, ofcourse, that the players announcement is done based on the tournament rosters. Don't be suprised if some player isn't online or is online but isn't playing.
• The official song of the tournament is announced just before the kick-off.
• We procced to the match with a countdown from 30 -> 0. We'd like to invite you to join this by sending those numbers in the match room's public chat.
• The room is muted when the match starts and voice rights are given.
• The winner of this 2x10 minute match qualifies to the International Challenge 2 Championship Tournament.
• TeamSpeak2 commentating: Server "ts.shellit.org:8000", Channel: "IC2 - SOCCER", Pass "ic2ball2"

Soccer-Sanomat (soccer-sanomat.blogspot.com) writes about the match this way (translated):

"One of the strengths of Team Finland is the wideness in their roster. The team is full of great players to each position, but the biggest question here is the inexperience of the team. Many of the players are having their international debut in this match."

Team England is full of experienced international players. Their biggest problem is propably the new players of the team, who may start to try a bit too much, which may lead to some arguing and other problems."

"Blister has so far scored incredible eight international goals, which is more than anyone else in this game. If everything goes OK, the magic line of ten international goals might be achieved."

"joni may be the one who leads Finland to victory. Has incredible view of the game and can pass some long crosses to the attackers of Finland."

"Källström is a player who works till the end. Has a great ability to save shots even from the goal line"

"Cesc is the international veteran of England who knows how to give some good curling passes. Gets their game forward even in the hardest times."

"Lupoli plays good with anyone and knows the skills of individual play also"

"If all goes OK, Sharp can be the biggest star of the match. On good days he's unstoppable, but there's bad days also..."