After an entertaining clash between Manchester United vs. a star studded Europe XI side, ManU came out trumps to defeat the Euro XI (4-3). Certainly the 74,343 crowd enjoyed the exciting match at Old Trafford on Tuesday that raised £1.25m for charity but they also missed the likes of Ronaldinho, Maldini and the original Ronaldo.
Manchester United is ready to fight with the star-studded Europe XI today at Old Trafford to celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the European Union. Match will start from 1930 GMT.
Zidane was also invited to join Europe XI squad along with Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Steven Gerrard, and Marco Materazzi but Zidane refused to join the squad.
Former England star David Beckham was earlier named to face his former club but is currently out with a knee injury.
List of the full squad of European XI :
Goalkeepers: Oliver Kahn (Bayern Munich/GER), Gregory Coupet (Lyon/FRA), Iker Casillas (Real Madrid/ESP).
Defenders: Paolo Maldini (AC Milan/ITA), Jamie Carragher (Liverpool/ENG), Eric Abidal (Lyon/FRA), Lilian Thuram (Barcelona/ESP), Carles Puyol (Barcelona/ESP), Marco Materazzi (Inter Milan/ITA), Fabio Grosso (Inter Milan/ITA), Gianluca Zambrotta (Barcelona/ESP).
Midfielders: Steven Gerrard (Liverpool/ENG), Juninho (Lyon/FRA), Florent Malouda (Lyon/FRA), Luis Miguel (Valencia/ESP), Gennaro Gattuso (AC Milan/ITA), Andrea Pirlo (AC Milan/ITA).
Strikers: Ronaldinho (Barcelona/ESP), Ronaldo (AC Milan/ITA), Alessandro Mancini (AS Roma/ITA), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan/ITA), Henrik Larsson (Helsingborg/SWE).
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In soccer, referee’s judgment is the final judgment. I know referee works hard to run the match successfully. But what if when the referee supports a team, which is strong. Strong in the sense, they have been participating in World Cup finals since long time. Let’s take example of yesterday’s match between Brazil vs. Australia. I know Brazil was 5 time champions. But in yesterday match Australian played comparatively well than Brazil. Unnecessarily fouls were given to Brazil. I have seen when Brazilian was not able to come up with the ball, they just fell down on the field and referee peep the whistle. So, this way referee makes the game a one sided. I don’t know why referee do this. Do they get biases with the name of Brazil? Or felt some sort of pressure from top official? Whatever, if this trends continues, the new team which comes up with new skills and spirit to participate in World Cup Finals. They might think thousands times before participating.
In another match between Italy vs. USA, which was draw (1-1), during the match the Americans were penalised for 24 fouls, 18 in the first half. Italy was punished 13 times in the whole game.
After the match Head coach of the US team Bruce Arena stated that “It’s natural. The powers of the game get a little more respect. One day the US will get some of those calls.”
That was another Example of bad refereeing. Some referees are spoiling the spirit of world cup’2006.
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