Ronaldos former teammates to play in Morocco

12-11-2008

Juninho and Ivan Helguera are invited to play with Ronaldo in Match Against Poverty.

Ronaldos former team mate at Real Madrid, Ivan Helguera, and his former team mate at the Brazilian national team, Junhinho Pernambucano, are among the players participating in the match to benefit United Nations Development Programme.

The game in the Moroccan city of Fez next Monday will also feature some of Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidanes former opponents in the Spanish League.

The list of players that Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane so far has invited is as follows:
Juninho Pernambucano (Olympique Lyon)
Ivan Helguera (Valencia)
Alexis (Valencia)
Nikola Zigic (Valencia)
Juan Valerón (Deportivo La Coruña)
Sergio (Deportivo La Coruña)
Miguel Mista (Deportivo La Coruña)
Fabio Celestini (Getafe)
Juan Arango (Mallorca)
Oscar Trejo (Mallorca)
Mohamed Tchité (Racing Santander)
Peter Luccin (Racing Santander)
Laurent Etame Mayer (Portsmouth)
Younes Kaboul (Portsmouth)
Ariza Makukula (Benfica)
Anatoly Tymoschuk (Zenit St. Petersburg)
Sami Al-Jaber (Al-Hilal)
Sun Jihai (Sheffield United)
Marta Vieira da Silva (Umea IK)
Noureddine Naybet, Aziz Bouderbala, Salaheddine Bassir and Youssef Chippo will represent the Royal Moroccan Football Federation.

Read more about the Match Against Poverty HERE