By Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez. More than 10 world-class soccer players will take part on Tuesday in a game against poverty organized every year by the UN Development Program.First in the list are Ronaldo (Brazil), Zinedine Zidane (France) and Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast).">By Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez. More than 10 world-class soccer players will take part on Tuesday in a game against poverty organized every year by the UN Development Program.First in the list are Ronaldo (Brazil), Zinedine Zidane (France) and Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast).">

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Famous Soccer Stars to Play Anti-Poverty Game

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  • 12 / 11 / 2010

By Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez. More than 10 world-class soccer players will take part on Tuesday in a game against poverty organized every year by the UN Development Program.First in the list are Ronaldo (Brazil), Zinedine Zidane (France) and Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast).

This time the host team will be Olympiacos and the game will be played at Piraeus city, in Greece.
As is customary, the objective of the game is to give a boost to the struggle against poverty in the world, as the first of the eight Millennium Development Goals set by the UN in 2000 to be achieved by 2015.

On this occasion, the profits will be allocated to the nearly 25 million victims of natural disasters in Haiti and Pakistan, according to a communiqué of PNUD.

The game is supported by top European and international soccer authorities (UEFA and FIFA).

The list of renowned figures to take part in the game also includes Raul Albiol (Spain), Mahmadou Diarra (Mali), Sabri Lamouchi (France), George Popsecu (Rumania) and Luciano da Silva, William and Sonny Anderson (Brazil), Pedro Pauleta, Fernando Couto, Sa Pinto, Luis Boa Morte and Nuno Gomes (Portugal), Pavel Nedved (Csech Republic) and Pierre Van Hooijdonk, Ronald de Boer and Gio Van Bronckhorst (Holland).

Prensa Latina Translation Staff

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