30 international football legends in Hamburg: Zidane, Ronaldo, Drogba & friends at the "UNDP Match against Poverty"

Hamburg (ots) - Football superstar Didier Drogba will be joining a
star-studded team of 30 international players at the "Match
against Poverty" on Tuesday, December 13 at Hamburger Sportverein
(HSV), one of Germany´s premier football clubs. With this match, the
players are campaigning to raise funds for hunger relief programmes
in the Horn of Africa.

Ronaldo, Zinédine Zidane and Drogba, who are Goodwill Ambassadors
to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), have
gathered international stars such as Luís Figo, Pavel Nedved,
Serginho and Christian Karembeu for a match against an equally
star-studded HSV All-Star team including Zé Roberto, Jörg Albertz,
Sergej Barbarez, Mehdi Mahdavikia and Anthony Yeboah. The match
will kick off at 19.05pm local time in Hamburg's IMTECH Arena.

"I feel honoured to support people in the Horn of Africa, who
are affected by drought and hunger, and I would like to encourage
the public to join forces to overcome the crisis," says Drogba, who
will be participating for the first time.

The annual "Match against Poverty", now for the ninth time, aims
at supporting measures within the UN's Millennium Development
Goals: eight internationally acknowledged objectives for defeating
extreme poverty by 2015. The match will be aired live by more than 20
national and international television channels. Two thirds of the
revenue will go to UN measures to fight the ongoing food crisis; the
remaining proceeds will be donated by HSV to local sports, youth and
environmental projects.

Joining Ronaldo, Zidane, Drogba & friends are, among others:
Dida, Paulo André, Serginho (Brazil) Jens Lehmann (Germany),
Fernando Hierro, Michel Salgado (Spain), Gheorghe Popescu and
Georghe Hagi (Romania), Luís Figo, Maniche, Fernando Couto
(Portugal), Christian Karembeu, Claude Makélélé, Robert Pirès
(France), Steve McManaman (England), Pavel Nedved (Czech Republic),
Fabio Cannavaro (Italy) and Dwight Yorke (Trinidad/Tobago).

The referee will be legendary Pierluigi Collina, while Marcelo
Lippi, Bora Milutinovic and Boris Becker will take on the role of
coaches. Tickets are available online at www.hsv.de/ticket.

Contact:
Hamburg Marketing GmbH
Guido Neumann
Phone: +49-40-411110-617
guido.neumann@marketing.hamburg.de
www.marketing.hamburg.de