13 November 2008. Kyiv – Rabat - UNDP Goodwill Ambassadors Ronaldo and Zidane
announced that at least 40 friends and colleagues will be joining them on the
pitch for the Match Against Poverty at the Complexe Sportif de Fès, at 18:00
local time, in Fès Morocco
on 17 November 2008.
Among those in the 40-player
line-up are Junhinho Pernambucano (Olympique Lyon), Laurent and Kaboul
(Portsmouth, English Cup champion), Makukula (Benfica Lisboa),Tymoschuck (St.
Petersburg Zenit’s captain and captain of the Ukrainian national team),
Valerón, Sergio and Mista (Deportivo La Coruña), Žigić, Iván Helguera and Alexis (Valencia), Arango and Oscar Trejo (Mallorca,) Tchite and Luccin
(Racing), Sami Al-Jaber (Al-Hilal), Fabio Celestini (Getage) Sun Jihai
(Sheffield United), one of the best Chinese players and real icon in China and
Moroccan football star Noureddine Naybet. More confirmations of
top international names are expected shortly as national teams are still
confirming the participation of their national players for the games of the
week.
The Brazilian women's football
striker Marta, considered the best female football player in the world, has
been invited by Ronaldo to participate. She plays as
a midfielder for Sweden's
Umeå IK, and was a member of the Brazilian National Team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer
Olympics. She is the 2006 and 2007 FIFA Women's World Player of the Year. In
the 2007 Women's World Cup, she won both the Golden Ball award as the best
player and the Golden Boot award as the top scorer.
Among the coaches of the Match
against Poverty, Moroccan former national team coach Faki Badou has confirmed his participation. More than 30 TV channels around the
world are expected to broadcast the match live.
As Goodwill Ambassadors for the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ronaldo and Zidane will each captain an international team of world renowned footballers
for this friendly game. The primary objective of the event is to mobilize the
public in the fight against poverty and to promote the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), which seek to halve world poverty by
2015. Between 2008 and 2015, the target date for accomplishing the MDGs, there will be eight games, each promoting one of
the eight goals, and the proceeds from each game will go to projects which address the goal highlighted. In Fès, the theme will be centered on the first Goal: to
eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. The funds will be allocated to UNDP anti
poverty projects around the world, including a national
project in Morocco.
For more information, please
contact:
In Geneva:
Aziyadé Poltier-Mutal, +41 22 917 83 68, +41 79 310 77 46,
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In Rabat:
Leila Barakat, +212 37633071, +212 61239600,
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Web: www.undp.org/Geneva.
In Kyiv: Victoria Andrievska,
+38 044 2540035,
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development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to
knowledge, experience and resources to help
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