Zidane and Ronaldo take part in UN charity match

 New York, 24 Nov-(ANA)-World champion footballers and United Nations Goodwill Ambassadors Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane today announced that the 8th Annual Match Against Poverty will

raise funds for the nearly 25 million people affected by the Haiti earthquake

and Pakistan floods.

 The two men, who use their celebrity status to promote the anti-poverty work of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), will mobilize their all-star team to challenge Greek-side Olympiacos in a friendly on 15 December.

 The match, which will be played at Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, Greece, is part of the global campaign to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the targets to slash poverty, hunger, disease and other social ills, all by 2015.

 “With five years left to accomplish the set of eight goals,” said Zidane, “I

hope this 8th Annual Match Against Poverty will help communicate a sense of urgency that we all need to join the team to end poverty now.” (ANA)

FA/ANA/24 November 2010------