Barça Legends to play in Curitiba, Brazil on 17 November
Barça Legends will be back in action on 17 November when they take on Pelé Pequeno Príncipe Legends, a team of South American household names, at the Ligga Arena in Curitiba, Brazil, home of Club Athletico Paranaense, at 7.30pm local time (18 November, 12.30am CET).
The announcement of the fixture took place on Monday at the stadium with former blaugrana Adriano Correia and Barça Legends coordinator Josep Maria Meseguer representing the Club. Also present were Pelé Pequeno Príncipe Legends' coach Carlinhos Neves, players Ricardinho and Fernando Prass as well Pelé Pequeno Príncipe representative and daughter of Pelé Flávia Kurtz Arantes do Nascimento, and Corporate Director of the Complex, José Álvaro Carneiro.
Money raised going to Instituto de Pesquisa Pelé Pequeno Príncipe
Money raised for the game will go to the FC Barcelona Foundation and the Instituto de Pesquisa Pelé Pequeno Príncipe, an organisation created to help reduce infant and juvenile mortality through investigation into complex diseases that affect people in the area. The aim is to discover new, more effective and cheaper methods of diagnosis and treatment for the illnesses in question.
For their part, the Barça Foundation's mission is to improve the lives of young people who find themselves in vulnerable situations, so they will donate their share of the money raised to the Instituto to contribute the reduction of infant and juvenile mortality in Brazil.
Stellar cast
For the game Barça Legends coach Albert Ferrer has put together a squad containing names such as José Edmilson, Giovanni da Silva, Adriano Correia, Javier Saviola and Edgar Davids. The Pelé Pequeno Príncipe Legends squads also boasts some well known faces from across the continent with the likes of Cafú, Tinga, Alex Meschini, Fernando Prass, Ricardinho and Diego Lugano set to be involved in the game.
About the Barça Legends
The Barça Legends programme was created in 2016 and is managed directly by the club. The idea is to bring together former stars in an ongoing project that contributes to the globalisation of the Barça name around the world, thus offering a platform to foster the club's famous values