The only player to have won the Champions League with three different clubs was the most emotional after reaching another final. Clarence Seedorf _ who won the title in 1995 with Ajax, in 1998 with Real Madrid, and in 2003 with Milan _ was in tears Wednesday after the "Rossoneri" beat Manchester United at the San Siro to advance to the May 23 final against Liverpool in Athens.

"I cried because I haven't forgotten where we started this season," said the Dutch midfielder, who scored the second goal in Milan's 3-0 second-leg win in the semifinals to advance 5-3 on aggregate.

Milan had to qualify for this season's Champions League after being implicated in the Italian match-fixing scandal. Many critics had said the team shouldn't have been allowed in the competition at all.

In the Serie A, Milan began the season with an eight-point penalty from the scandal.

With nearly half the squad injured midway through the season, Milan seemed stalled in the middle of the table and was eliminated from the Italian Cup by AS Roma in January.

Now, with nearly all of the injured players back, Milan has climbed to third in Serie A and has a chance at winning the only trophy it still can this season _ the Champions League.

"Between November and December, we weren't well and everyone was criticizing us. Maybe we didn't even think we could get this far," Seedorf said.

"But over 180 minutes against Manchester, Milan showed it was superior. Even in the first leg we controlled the game, we only stupidly let them come back in the final minutes. Here we massacred them in the first half."

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