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Ronaldo and Zidane will play at Stadium of "Luz"

The seventh edition of Match Against Poverty will have place at Stadium of Light on 25 January.

The United Nations Program for Development, which organizes the event, joined for the first time to a football club, or in this case to the Benfica Foundation.

Brazilian Ronaldo and French Zidane will be again protagonists, but this time not by opposing teams. Both will be on the same side of the field to face a team composed of elements of Benfica's current squad and ex-idols of the club.

Half of the meeting's revenue will revert to the Foundation Benfica, which spells out social development projects in Lusophone Africa. The remaining amount will be for the United Nations Program for Development and for its social projects.

Benfica president, Luis Filipe Vieira: "Football is a great way to bring people together for a good cause and Benfica is much more than a football club and want to take a social component of large proportion through its Foundation.

Tickets price for this game, is 10 euros, and the sale starts on 21st December.

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