Zidane/Kaka World XI -v- Benfica all-stars - Haiti charity game

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The two former world footballers of the year will be among 40 internationals lining up for the United Nations Development Programme's annual game, which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday.

The seventh staging of the UNDP Match Against Poverty will feature two Haitians, Jean Sony and Joseph Peterson, who play for Portuguese clubs.

Zidane, who won the World Cup with France in 1998 and retired from top-level football in 2006, is a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador along with former Brazil star Ronaldo.


Ronaldo is unavailable as he is starting a new domestic season this weekend with his club Corinthians, so compatriot and Real Madrid star Kaka will take his place in Zidane's team.

Michael Laudrup, named Denmark's best footballer of all time by his national association in 2006, will also play alongside Dutchmen Edgar Davids, Patrick Kluivert and Phillip Cocu, Portugal's Luis Figo, Czech veteran Pavel Nedved and Romania legend Gheorghe Hagi.

The opposition, the Benfica All-Star line-up, will feature Portuguese football hero Eusebio along with more recent top names such as Rui Costa and Nuno Gomes.

The U.N. said all proceeds will go toward relief and reconstruction efforts in Haiti, which was devastated by a magnitude 7.0 quake on January 12 that has killed least 72,000 people and left many more homeless.
The match is also intended to focus attention on the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals adopted in 2000, which seek to halve world poverty by 2015.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/football/01/22/football.haiti.zidane.kaka/index.html

Cool Running

This is definetly a very worthy cause. Fair play to Kaka for turning up considering Madrid are right in the middle of their season

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Cool Running wrote: »

This is definetly a very worthy cause. Fair play to Kaka for turning up considering Madrid are right in the middle of their season

that's Kaka for ya

class act

GavRedKing

Well done to all players playing in this game, shows that at the end of the day they are still human. A big hand to Kaka for playing in this to, and also to Real Madrid for allowing him to participate.

flyswatter

Did I read the original post correctly? Eusebio will be playing for the Benfica All Stars, surely he can't hack it at 67 years old?!

x in the city

wheres diego.......:p

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x in the city wrote: »

wheres diego.......:p

They want the game to have a bit of creditability:D

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Kick-off in 10mins on ESPN

Link: http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=63139&part=sports
or http://iraqgoals.net/ch5.html

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Anyone know the starting line-ups?

redout

Collina is the referee.

Great to see him officiate again.

He was a legend.

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baz2009 wrote: »

Anyone know the starting line-ups?

The World XI has a cracking team.

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Zidane
Henry
Nedved
Barthez
Figo
Hierro
Dani Alves
Rafa Marquez
Davids
Kaka
Laudrup
Kluivert

are all on the pitch as is one Haiti player

Rui Costa, Quim and Nuno Gomes on Benfica.

Exclamation Marc

Starting Line-Up.
Zidane/Kaka XI
Jens Lehmann, Dani Alves, Rafael Marquez, Fernando Couto, Jean Sony, Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane, Edgar Davids, Kaka, Thierry Henry, Pauleta.

Benfica XI
Quim, David Luiz, Humberto Coelho, Luisao, Dimas, Vitor Paneira, Kostas Katsouranis, Rui Costa, Georgios Karagounis, Fabrizio Miccoli, Nuno Gomes

Was the official XI on the pre-match graphic, but looks like Barthez is starting so who knows.

Some players on the World XI bench are; Hagi, Kluivert, Radebe, Laudrup, Dugarry, Nedved, LeSaux, Tymoshchuk and Olic

redout

Thats bad form.

They sub the Haiti player after just 6mins!

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Goals.............

1 - 1

Kaka
Nuno Gomes

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redout wrote: »

Thats bad form.

They sub the Haiti player after just 6mins!

Ah he was a bit shaken I think.

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FireballPitcher wrote: »

Ah he was a bit shaken I think.

:o:o

A Primal Nut

That oul lad on the left wing was decent - one or two good passes, shot was a bit weak though lol. Funny when the crowd booed when Dani Alves took the ball off him!

I want Eusebio!

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A Primal Nut wrote: »

That oul lad on the left wing was decent - one or two good passes, shot was a bit weak though lol. Funny when the crowd booed when Dani Alves took the ball off him!

I want Eusebio!

He done the kick-off.