MADRID: Real Madrid's Brazilian superstar Kaka faces old club AC Milan for the first time on Wednesday when the two sides do battle at the Santiago Bernabeu in a Champions League Group C match.

Kaka was an icon at Milan after six successful years and helping the club win the 2007 Champions League crown but left for Real this summer in a 65 million-euro ($97 million) move which he insisted was to help Milan with their financial problems.

The Spanish capital hosts a match-up between the two most successful clubs in European history with Real boasting a record nine European Cups to Milan's seven.