Cafu finds Kaka in the last third, his adorable backheel leaves Ronaldinho all the time in the world to score, but Fabio Cannavaro makes his trademark, last-ditch clearance to prevent Gianluigi Buffon from conceding against Brazil. If you think we’re talking about some match from 15-20 years ago, you’re more than wrong. Believe it or not, the above-mentioned retired superstars will lock horns again in a few months, as the new over-35s World Cup is set to be held in England with some of football’s greatest legends being lined up to play.Football legends are organising a veterans world cup tournament, participants sh’ld be 35y/o and above.Does that mean cr7, Messi, Modric etc are eligible as well?🤷♂️⚽️🔥— LENOX🇺🇬🤠 (@lenoxug) February 6, 2024 According to Mailsport, it will be an eight-team tournament involving England, Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Uruguay – the past FIFA World Cup winners.Seven matches will be staged in the same stadium over one week at the start of June. The competition is being organised by the Elite Players Group (EPG) – a group of top-level former footballers and sports businessmen who joined forces last year – and will be known as the EPG Cup.Under their proposals, only players who are aged 35 or over and have been capped by their country or made 100 top-flight appearances will be eligible to take part in the tournament.The captains of each country are founders of the EPG. Steve McManaman will lead the Three Lions, while the other captains are Esteban Cambiasso (Argentina), Emerson (Brazil), Christian Karembeu (France), Kevin Kuranyi (Germany), Marco Materazzi (Italy), Michel Salgado (Spain) and Diego Lugano (Uruguay).The provisional squads include five former Ballon d’Or winners – Michael Owen, Kaka, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, and Cannavaro. England are also said to have already enlisted Ashley Cole, Joe Cole, Rio Ferdinand, David James, Frank Lampard and Robbie Fowler.Other stars supposedly being lined up to feature include Brazil’s Cafu and Roberto Carlos and France’s Thierry Henry and Marcel Desailly.Argentina are said to have Hernan Crespo and Pablo Zabaleta involved, while Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira are on Die Mannschaft’s draft list.The Spanish squad will include the likes of David Villa and Carlos Puyol, while Francesco Totti is down to play for Italy and Diego Forlan for Uruguay.##NAJAVA_MECA_7855548##
