Ghana’s Sulley Muntari played alongside legends Diego Maradona, Paul Gascoigne and Roberto Baggio in the interreligous Match for Peace supported by Pope Francis to promote diplomatic solution for crisis in Gaza.
Football legends past and present came together to promote an end to hostilities in Gaza at the Interreligious Match for Peace staged Rome.
The exhibition match was arranged at the behest of Pope Francis, himself an avid supporter of Argentine side San Lorenzo, to to promote a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis in Gaza. The leader of the Roman Catholic church met several football legends including Diego Maradona, Carlos Valderrama and Allesandro Del Piero at the Vatican before the game.
In total 50 all-star players of different religious backgrounds ranging from Islam to Buddhism were invited to take part in the game at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. The exhibition was co-hosted by the Pupi Foundation, a Buenos Aires-based charity founded by the former Inter Milan midfielder Javier Zanetti, alongside Scholas Occurentes, an educational entity launched by the Pope. Zanetti captained the PUPI side while Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon took charge of the SCHOLAS. As expected, the exhibition game was a goal fest intent on entertaining the audience and finished 6-3 to the PUPI side.
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