Manchester United and Barcelona will honour victims of the terror attack of their two cities prior to Saturday’s charity match among former Gamers from the clubs at Old Trafford.
The pre-arranged sport might be preceded by means of a minute’s silence, whilst each sides will put on black armbands and will have ‘Manchester’ and ‘Barcelona’ on their backs in vicinity of Player Names.
Twenty-Two people had been killed and 250 injured by a suicide bomber in Manchester in may, additionally before attacks in Catalonia earlier this month left sixteen lifeless and over one hundred fifty injured.
“Manchester is not any stranger to the devastating effects of terrorism and we will empathise with how difficult it need to be for the Catalan human beings to recover from the current attack,” said former United Captain Bryan Robson, Manager of the Manchester United Legends Team, in a press launch issued on wednesday.
“however, as of the maximum iconic Teams in world sport, we are able to use the strength of soccer to bring people together.
“we must unite to reveal our strength, rally arround our communities and get up collectively against all types of terrorism.”
Edwin Van Der Sar, Wes Brown, Park Ji-sung and Ruud Van Nistelrooy will all feature for united, even as Eric Abidal, Edgar Davids, Gaizka Mendieta and Patrick Kluivert are amongst those lining up for barcelona.
The 2 teams faced off at Camp Nou in June, with the united XI winning 3-1.
Former Barca Defender Albert Ferrer, managing the Barcelona Legends, said: “the 2 towns have been linked with the aid of terrorism this yr, so i think it’s essential to show everyone that Manchester and Barcelona stand together.”
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