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Former football stars to play charity match in UK

Beckham, Ronaldinho and Zidane are among football stars who will play a charity match for children in Manchester United's home turf Old Trafford

13.11.2015 - Update : 14.11.2015
Former football stars to play charity match in UK

Ankara

LONDON

Several former and current football stars, including David Beckham, Ronaldinho, Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo and Patrick Kluivert will play in a charity match for children in Manchester United's home ground, Old Trafford, on Saturday.

Great Britain and Ireland All-Stars will play against the Rest of the World team in the exhibition match.

Having retired from English Premier League heavyweights Manchester United after a 27-year-spell as manager in 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson will manage the Great Britain and Ireland All-Stars. Former Manchester United veteran Beckham will be the team captain.

Beckham is set to meet his former manager Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford after a 12-year break. The Red Devils' former English star has played 394 matches for the English club between 1992 and 2003 in the Ferguson era.

Ferguson’s team members are: David Seaman, David James, Jamie Carragher, Sol Campbell, Phil Neville, John Terry, Ashley Cole, Darren Fletcher, Nicky Butt, Trevor Sinclair, Paul Scholes, Gary McAllister, Ryan Giggs, Michael Owen, Peter Crouch and Alan Smith.

Rest of the World team will have Edwin van der Sar, Raimond van der Gouw, Cafu, Fernando Hierro, Fernando Couto, Mikael Silvestre, Maxwell, Luis Figo, Robert Pires, Christian Karembeu, Ji-sung Park, Clarence Seedorf, Patrick Vieira, Michael Ballack, Ronaldinho, Dwight Yorke, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Patrick Kluivert and Landon Donovan.

Former French football legend Zinedine Zidane will be the captain of the Rest of the World team, which will be managed by Italian Carlo Ancelotti.

The revenue of the exhibition match will be donated to United Nations Children's Fund.

The match will start at 3 p.m., local time in the U.K. (1500 GMT).

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