"Sevilla are Uefa Cup winners twice in the last five years, " he said.
The Swansea-born targetman graced a UEFA Cup Winners Cup final with Arsenal and starred in big European nights with Celtic.
Haka beat Bangor City 3-0 on aggregate in the Uefa Cup Winners' Cup in 1998, with West Ham striker Marlon Harewood playing in both legs for the Finish side.
The 2009 Uefa Cup winners are five points clear of archrivals Dynamo Kiev after 13 games in the Ukrainian League and have recorded impressive Champions League victories over Partizan Belgrade and Braga to sit alongside Arsenal on a maximum six points going into Tuesday's clash.
In five previous cup outings this season - in the Carling Cup and Uefa Cup - the eight-times FA Cup winners have lost only one game away from home and they were quickly into their stride at Craven Cottage.
Liverpool will not be asked to pre-qualify, partly because that process clashes with Uefa's showpiece date for the Super Cup match between the Champions League winners and the Uefa victors, CSKA Moscow, in Monaco on 26 August.
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United boss Sir Alex Ferguson said before the match that the traditional showpiece between the Champions League winners and the Uefa Cup champions was a game to be enjoyed, but there was little for the Scot to savour from the first 45 minutes.
Derry City will face former winners IFK Gothenburg in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup while Irish compatriots Drogheda face HJK Helsinki.
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Add to the mix 10 England caps, two Uefa Cup runners-up medals and one each for the FA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup and Parlour can reflect on a glittering career at the top.
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To recap: The Europa League is a rebranded version of the UEFA Cup, which itself started as the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and absorbed the former European Cup Winners' Cup down the road.
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