Football for Hope was a FIFA-sponsored football match played between the Ronaldinho XI team and the Shevchenko XI team on 15 February 2005 at the Camp Nou in Barcelona in support of the relief effort after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster.

Organised by FIFA and UEFA in consultation with the Royal Spanish Football Federation, and with support from FC Barcelona, who provided their stadium and staff free of charge, this benefit match for the victims of the tsunami saw an XI led by Ronaldinho, the 2004 FIFA World Player of the Year, beat a team captained by Andriy Shevchenko, the 2004 European Footballer of the Year, by six goals to three.

FIFA hoped to raise £7 million in support of the tsunami victims, around a third through the game itself. All proceeds from the Football For Hope match went to the FIFA/Asian Football Confederation Tsunami Solidarity Fund.

In 2011, FIFA won the Sport for Health Award at the Beyond Sport Awards ceremony.^[1]

The match

The game itself, which was watched by some 35,000 spectators, was a typical charity affair with a predictable pace, although the fans were entertained by a feast of goals.

Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o and Senegal's Henri Camara both scored two goals, which, along with strikes from Ronaldinho and the South Korean Cha Du-ri, helped the FIFA World Player of the Year's team to victory. Alessandro Del Piero, Gianfranco Zola and David Suazo scored for Andriy Shevchenko's side.

Shevchenko XI

*Coaches:

• Marcello Lippi — Italy
• Arsène Wenger — Arsenal

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ESP Iker Casillas 2 DF  BEL Vincent Kompany 3 DF  URU Paolo Montero 4 DF  GEO Kakha Kaladze 5 DF  GHA Samuel Kuffour 6 MF  ENG Steven Gerrard 7 FW  UKR Andriy Shevchenko 8 MF  FRA Ludovic Giuly 9 MF  ITA Alessandro Del Piero 10 MF  FRA Zinedine Zidane 11 MF  ESP Raúl 12 GK  ITA Francesco Toldo 13 MF  GER Sebastian Deisler 14 MF  SUI Johann Vogel 15 FW  TUR Hakan Şükür 16 MF  FIN Jari Litmanen

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  ITA Gianfranco Zola 20 FW  HON David Suazo 21 DF  FRA Lilian Thuram 22 FW  FRA Thierry Henry 23 MF  ENG David Beckham — GK  ITA Gianluigi Buffon — DF  FRA Christian Karembeu — DF  ESP Carles Puyol — DF  ITA Paolo Maldini — DF  NED Jaap Stam — FW  ITA Roberto Baggio — MF  GER Michael Ballack — FW  ITA Francesco Totti — FW  CZE Pavel Nedvěd — MF  FRA Patrick Vieira — MF  RUS Sergei Semak

Ronaldinho XI

Coaches:

• Carlos Alberto Parreira — Brazil
• Frank Rijkaard — Barcelona

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BRA Dida 2 DF  BRA Cafu 3 DF  COL Iván Córdoba 4 DF  MEX Rafael Márquez 5 DF  RSA Lucas Radebe 6 DF  GHA Samuel Kuffour 7 MF  JPN Hidetoshi Nakata 8 MF  IRN Mehdi Mahdavikia 9 FW  CMR Samuel Eto'o 10 FW  BRA Ronaldinho 11 MF  KOR Park Ji-sung 12 GK  CMR Carlos Kameni 13 FW  NGA Obafemi Martins 14 FW  SEN Henri Camara 15 DF  TUN Radhi Jaïdi 16 MF  RSA Delron Buckley 17 DF  CMR Rigobert Song

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  USA DaMarcus Beasley 19 MF  KOR Cha Du-ri 20 MF  POR Deco 22 MF  BRA Kaká — DF  BRA Cris — DF  ARG Gabriel Heinze — DF  BRA Lúcio — DF  ARG Javier Zanetti — FW  BRA Adriano — MF  ARG Esteban Cambiasso — FW  CIV Didier Drogba — MF  AUS Brett Emerton — MF  GHA Michael Essien — MF  BRA Juninho — MF  CHN Li Tie — FW  BRA Ronaldo

See also

• World Cricket Tsunami Appeal
• IRB Rugby Aid Match

References

External links

• "Nearly 40 world-famous stars already confirmed for Football for Hope match". FIFA. 4 February 2005. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2019.