SOCCER-loving siblings Joe and Luigi Passerini will be giving brotherly love the boot during tonight's Champions League final.

For while hairdresser Joe is backing AC Milan to win the top club trophy his older brother Luigi will be supporting opposing team Juventus in the match at Old Trafford.

Joe, 30, who runs Passerini's hairdressers on Mincing Lane, Blackburn, with Luigi and dad Mani, is the only one of four brothers to support Milan.

Luigi, 34, and brothers Michael, 33 and Giulio, 22, all support Juventus.

Joe, whose dad was born in Sicily, said: "I've supported AC Milan for about 10 years now. I don't really know why. I suppose I am the oddball of the family, but when I was growing up they were always on the TV.

"When my older brothers were growing up Juventus was the team for them, but my youngest brother Giulio appears to have taken to them as well."

"We will be definitely watching the match tonight, although I don't know if we will be watching it all together."

Luigi, added: "Me and my other brothers have followed Juventus since being kids. I think that Juventus will beat Milan 3-1."

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