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Blatter avoids confusion
HONG KONG, Apr 4: FIFA secretary general Sepp Blatter insisted today that the world governing body was not getting embroiled in politics by linking its name to a ■Reunification Cup' All-Star match for Hong Kong's handover, reports AFP.
A FIFA All-Star side, featuring England's Alan Shearer and Liberian ace George Weah and Germany’s Lothar Matthaeus. will play an Asian All Star team in Hong Kong on July 3. barely 48 hours after the British colony is returned to China.
In a press conference to promote the. event, the International Football Federation (FIFA) leader said the handover was "a political event... and a very important event.”
FIFA’s All Star side has played in charity matches in the past but. with many people expressing concern about Hong Kong's future after the handover. the world body has never been so closely linked to such a political occasion.
a i' JBlMtensaid. though. "We are not getting involved in a political event. We are trying to hold a sporting and culture event in celebration of a political event.” "It is the first time we have witnessed such an event in the world. Of course we feel proud at FIFA that we can contribute to such a match.”
The match was the idea of Henry Fok. a Hong Kong tycoon with close ties to Beijing and a
former FIFA executive vice-president.
Fok's son Timothy is on the organising committee for the "Reunification Cup” and he said football has become an "abiding love" for many Hong Kong people.
"It was this powerful emotion that focused our minds on using football as the means of celebrating the historic occasion of the return of China to Hong Kong rule." he said.
"As far as sport is concerned, nothing means more to the lives of millions of people in Hong Kong than soccer and for
millions more in Hong Kong nothing means more to them than the reunification with China."
The FIFA squad is made up mainly of players from Europe and Africa, or South Americans
who play in Japan's J-League. Brazil and Argentina’s regular first teajn players will be taking part in the (?opa America in July.
Half have to confirm their participation.
Asia's newly crowned pla-yef-of-the-year' Iranian striker Khodadad Azizi. is in the squad to take on the FIFA stars.
FIFA All Stars Squad
Mark Bosnieh (Australia). Andreas Kopke (Germany). Lothar Matthaeus (Germany). Christian Karembeu (France). Ze-Elias (Brazil). Aidair (Brazil). Sunday Loseh (Nigeria), Leonardo (Brazil), Alexei Lalas (USA), Carlos Dunga (Brazil), Matthias Sammer (Germany). Alessandro Costacurta (Italy). Ciro Ferrara (Italy). Taribo West (Nigeria). Edmundo (Brazil). George Weah (Liberia). Jean-Pierre Papin (France), Alan Shearer (England). Allesandro del Piero (Italy). Miguel Alfonso (Spain). Asian All Stars Squad
Mohammed Al-Deayea (Saudi Arabia). Falah Dabshia (Kuwait). Rahdi Swadi (Iraq), Mohammed Jahani (Saudi Arabia).( DjUSit ChaJemson (Thailand). Chen Cht-Keong (Hong Kong), Fan Zhiyi (China), Masami Ihara (Japan). Karim Bagheri (Iran). Mohammed Nasrallah (Syria). Mohammed Ali (United Aiab Emirates). Laith Hussain (Iraq). Sergi Lebedev (Uzbekistan). Hwang Sun-Hong (S Korea). Khodadad Azizi (Iran). Ali Daei (Iran). Mohammed Salem el Nazi (Qatar). Hao Haidong (China).