World XI

The World XI, also known as the FIFA World Stars, is an association football scratch team consisting of players from various countries. The World XI play one-off games against clubs, national teams, collectives of continental teams.

The official first match of the FIFA World XI was held against England on the 100th anniversary of the Football Association – 23 October 1963. The World lost 2–1 in front of a crowd of 100,000. Prior to this, matches had been played in 1947 against the United Kingdom in Scotland (to celebrate the four British national teams returning to FIFA, with the proceeds going to the world governing body) and against England in 1953 (for the Football Association's 90th anniversary – in fact all the players were from continental Europe).

FIFA has organised several World XI squads to compete in various commemorative exhibitions and charity testimonials, but in its own documentation, the only official World Stars Games listed are those against national, pan-continental or representative teams; its matches against club teams including New York Cosmos, Hamburger SV, Benfica, Anderlecht, Flamengo, Barcelona, Manchester United and Real Madrid are not included.<br />On 18 July 2007, the World XI faced an Africa XI with both teams unusually composed of retired players.

The Women's World XI first played on 14 February 1999 at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California, United States, for the draw of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, defeating the United States 2–1.

Results

60s

Centenary of the (English) Football Association -----

65th birthday of Ricardo Zamora -----

10th anniversary of Brazil's first World Cup title (1958) -----

70s

Farewell game for Garrincha -----

1st Anniversary of Argentina's first World Cup victory (1978) -----

80s

FIFA Charity Match for UNICEF -----

FIFA Charity Match for UNICEF -----

90s

FIFA Charity Match for UNICEF -----

FIFA Charity Match for SOS Children's Villages -----

Hong Kong Reunification Cup -----

Russian Football Centennial Match -----

FIFA Charity Match for SOS Children's Villages -----

75th Anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic and the Turkish Football Federation -----

Centenary of the FIGC (Italian Football Federation) -----

Official opening of Stadium Australia -----

Farewell game for Nelson Mandela -----

00s

"Football For Peace" -----

Charity Match for SOS Children's Villages

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Football for Hope (Indian Ocean Tsunami funds)

Unofficial games

Goodwill Games

Friendlies

Friendly -----

Anniversary Friendly a year after the Gulf War -----

Kobe Earthquake Benefit Match -----

AIFP match

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World Dream Soccer Exhibition

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Goals against AIDS

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Christmas matches

Chritmas Charity match for UNICEF's Somalian refugees -----

Chritmas Charity match for UNICEF -----

Chritmas Charity match -----

Chritmas Charity match for UNICEF's children -----

Testimonials

Farewell game for Zico -----

Pelé's 50th Birthday -----

Farewell match for Dirceu -----

Farewell game for Rudi Voller -----

Jean-Pierre Papin Testimonial

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Alex Ferguson Testimonial -----

Gheorghe Hagi´s farewell

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Farewell game for Diego Maradona -----

Marc-Vivien Foe tribute -----

Alberto Acosta farewell -----

Ivan Zamorano farewell

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Carlos Valderrama farewell

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José Luis Chilavert farewell -----

Gheorghe Popescu´s farewell -----

Nwankwo Kanu´s farewell

Legends games

Reunification Cup - celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Hong Kong's reunification with China -----

90 Minutes for Mandela

Women's games

First ever women's World Stars match played to coincide with the official draw for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup USA -----

FIFA Centennial Match -----

Match played to coincide with the official draw for the FIFA Women's World Cup China 2007

Squads

Rosters (Official matches)

Lineups

Christmas matches<br>

• December 30, 1992 / AC Milan – Christmas World Stars 4-2 (Evani Massaro ) ) ) Serena ) and Papin ) Berti ) / Milan, San Siro / Attendance: 40.339

Referee: Trentalange

AC Milan (Fabio Capello): Sebastiano Rossi (74′ Carlo Cudicini), Tassotti, Enzo Gambaro, De Napoli, Stefano Nava, Franco Baresi (c), Lentini I (64′ Serena), Donadoni, Marco Simone (46′ Albertini), Evani, Massaro.

Christmas World Stars (Nils Liedholm): Taffarel (46′ Casanova), John Sivebaek (80′ Dubovski), Blanc (80′ Panadic), Zvonimir Boban (46′ David Ginola, 74′ Rosenthal), Glonek (46′ Germain), Sabau (46′ Sforza, 74′ Sergio Berti), Dejan Savicevic (46′ Hagi), Rijkaard (46′ Sammer), Jean-Pierre Papin (57′ Elber, 74′ Luis Oliveira), Ruud Gullit (c) (46′ Lajos Detari), Careca (46′ Davor Suker, 74′ Raducioiu).

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• December 29, 1993 / AC Milan – Christmas World Stars 5-3 (Savicevic Angelo Carbone ) Papin ) Orlando ) and Hugo Sanchez ) Oliveira ) Daoudi ) pen. / Milan, San Siro / Attendance: 42.569

Referee: Treossi

AC Milan (Fabio Capello): Sebastiano Rossi (46′ Ielpo), Mauro Tassotti (captain) (73′ Sadotti), Alessandro Orlando, De Napoli, Stefano Nava, F. Galli, Lentini I, Desailly (46′ Panucci, 56′ Costacurta), Jean-Pierre Papin (46′ Massaro), Dejan Savicevic (66′ D’Aversa), Angelo Carbone

Christmas World Stars (Francisco Maturana): Jorge Campos (46′ Wilfred), Martinsen (46′ Rimba), Jose Chamot (46′ Sabau), Ruud Gullit (captain) (35′ Sforza, 61′ Kalusha Bwalya), Sensini (46′ Lasas), Onopko (35′ Shin Hong Gi, 61′ El Khalej Tahar), Brian Laudrup (61′ Daoudi), Ilie Dumitrescu (46′ Makanaki, 82′ Rapaijc), Hugo Sanchez (46′ Nikos Machlas, 82′ Goran Vlaovic), Rincon (46′ Tomas Brolin), Kazu Miura (50′ Luis Oliveira, 78′ Stanic).

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• December 28, 1994 / AS Roma – Christmas World Stars 2-1 (Moriero Statuto ) and Vlaović ) / Rome, Stadio Olimpico / Attendance: 25.120

Referee: De Santis di Tivoli

AS Roma (Carlo Mazzone): Cervone, Annoni (46′ Colonnese), Benedetti, Francesco Statuto (46′ Piacentini), Petruzzi, Carboni (68′ Borsa), Francesco Moriero (46′ Maini), Thern, Cappioli, Giuseppe Giannini (c), Francesco Totti.

Christmas World Stars (Nils Liedholm): Ladic (46' Eriksson), Zeman, Marcelo Balboa, Zoran Jovanovski (46' Patrick Berger), Igor Štimac (46' Li Bing), Andre Cruz, Luis Oliveira (46' Kenneth Andersson), Tab Ramos (46' Julio Dely Valdés), Papin (46' Harazi), Hong Myung Bo (46' Nikos Machlas), Kazu Miura (46' Vlaović)

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• December 30, 1994 / AC Milan – Christmas World Stars 2-3 (Boban Di Canio ) and Tab Ramos ) Machlas ) )/ Milan, San Siro / Attendance:

Referee: Beschin di Legnago

AC Milan (Fabio Capello): Sebastiano Rossi (46′ Ielpo), Panucci (70′ Coco), Maldini (54′ Tassotti), Zvonimir Boban (46′ Albertini), Costacurta (46′ Stefano Nava), Baresi (31′ Galli), Lentini, Stroppa (46′ Eranio), Melli (46′ Sordo), Massimo Orlando, Paolo Di Canio

Christmas World Stars (Nils Liedholm): Tacconi (46' Ladic), Arteaga (46' Nikos Machlas), Vladimír Kinder, Igor Štimac (46' Hong Myung Bo), Kalitzakis, Marcelo Balboa (46' Zeman), Lardín ($6' Patrick Berger), Hristo Stoičkov (c) (46' Danut Lupu, Glenn Hélder (46' Tab Ramos), Asanović, Richard Witschge (46' Li Bing)

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Other matches

• 8 October 1991/ Germany – FIFA World XI 3-1 (Beiersdorfer Effenberg ) Ruggeri and Stoichkov / Munich, Olympiastadion / Attendance: 38,000

Referee: Rosario Lo Bello

Germany (Berti Vogts): Illgner (Köpke), Kohler, Binz, Reuter, Beiersdorfer, Brehme (Effenberg), Hässler, Möller (Bein), Matthäus (captain), Völler, Klinsmann (Thom)

FIFA World XI (Bobby Robson): Goycoechea, Oscar Ruggeri, Ricardo, Jorginho, Mozer, Armstrong (Skuhravy), Stojkovic (Calimbay), Waddle (Valderrama), Weah (Joo-Sung-Kim), Gullit (captain), Stoichkov (Zamorano).

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• April 27, 1997 / Europe XI – Rest of World XI 3-4 (Mancini Stoichkov ) and Jose del Solar Edison Mafla Branco Kanu / Marseille, Camp Nou / Attendance: 5,200

Referee: Robert Wurtz

Europe XI (Guy Roux): Stanley Menzo (Frode Grodås, Laurent Blanc (46' Eusebio), Ronald Koeman (46' Jordi Cruyff), Thomas Berthold, Georges Grun, Christian Karembeu, Eric Cantona (captain), Hristo Stoichkov, Gianluca Vialli (46' Elvir Bolic), Roberto Mancini, Tomas Brolin

Rest of World XI (Sócrates): Navarro Montoya (46' Rene Higuita), Jose del Solar, Branco, Smahi Triki, José Basualdo, Oscar Ruggeri, Edison Mafla, Paulo Silas, Aurelio Vidmar (55' Nwankwo Kanu), Diego Maradona (captain) (60' Charles Wittl, Giovane Élber (46' Gabriel Okolosi).

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• August 18, 1997 / Russia All Stars – FIFA World XI 0-2 (Djorkaeff Guerrero ) / Moscow, Luzhniki Stadium / Attendance: 62,000

Referee: Pierluigi Collina.

Russia All Stars: Ovchinnikov (Cherchesov, 46), Kovtun (Pagayev, 46), Nikiforov (Chugainov, 46), Popov, Kosolapov (Yanovskiy, 46), Kanchelskis (Grishin, 46), Onopko (captain), Alenichev (Kharlachyov, 46), Kolyvanov (Tikhonov, 46), Veretennikov, Simutenkov (Cheryshev, 46).

FIFA World XI (Bobby Robson and Bora Milutinović): Zubizarreta (Gospodarek, 46), Vega, Suárez, Verlaat, Matthäus (captain), Djorkaeff (Tsveiba, 78), Guerrero, Winter, Papin (Abédi Pelé, 46), Effenberg, Shevchenko (Beschastnykh, 58).

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• December 4, 1997 / Europe XI – Rest of World XI 2-5 (Lacatus Zidane ) and Antony de Ávila Ronaldo Batistuta / Marseille, Stade Vélodrome / Attendance: 38,000

Referee: Gilles Veissière

Europe XI(Franz Beckenbauer): Andreas Köpke (46' Frode Grodås, Heimo Pfeifenberger, Alessandro Costacurta, Fernando Hierro (46' Søren Colding), Dominique Lemoine (46' Gordon Durie), Paul Ince, Zinedine Zidane (captain), Krasimir Balakov, Marius Lacatus, Patrick Kluivert (46' Slaviša Jokanović), Alen Boksic

Rest of World XI (Carlos Alberto Parreira): Jacques Songo’o (Rubén Ruiz Díaz), Hong Myung-Bo, Javier Margas, Nourredine Naybet, David Nyathi, Marcelino Bernal, Hidetoshi Nakata, Adel Sellimi, Gabriel Batistuta, Ronaldo (captain), Antony de Ávila. Subs: Hussein Abdulghani, Nwankwo Kanu, Deon Burton, Eric Wynalda, Mehdi Pashazadeh

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• November 29, 2004 / FC Barcelona – World Stars XI 4-4 (Iniesta Deco ) Messi Belletti and Nakata McCarthy Petrov / Barcelona, Camp Nou / Attendance:

Referee: Robert Wurtz

Barcelona (Frank Rijkaard): Víctor Valdés - Damiá, Carles Puyol (captain), Navarro, Giovanni van Bronckhorst - Deco, Dani Fragoso, Iniesta - Ludovic Giuly, Cristian, Ronaldinho. Subs: Belletti, Messi

World Stars XI (Johan Cruyff): Jorge Campos (46' Abbiati); Ostlund, Kompany, Pochetino (46' Van Buyten), Carboni (46' Michalis Kapsis), Obodo (46' Escudé), Baraja (46' Andrés D'Alessandro), Hidetoshi Nakata (71' Jorge Campos), Uche (46' Delron Buckley), Bojinov (46' Benny McCarthy), Michael Owen (46' Stiliyan Petrov).

• Also: (Fernando Torres, Anelka, Brocchi, Barthez, Maldini and Lizarazu were invited but they could't travel).

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• February 15, 2005 / Europe XI (Shevchenko) – Rest of World XI (Ronaldinho) 3-6 (Del Piero Zola ) Suazo and Eto'o Camara Ronaldinho Cha Du-ri / Barcelona, Camp Nou / Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Pierluigi Collina

Europe XI (Marcello Lippi and Arsène Wenger): Iker Casillas, Montero, Kaladze, Thuram, Gerrard, Diesler, Beckham, Zidane, Alessandro Del Piero, Raul, Shevchenko (captain). Subs: Mahdavikia, Park Ji-sung, Kameni, Martins, Henri Camara, Jaïdi, Buckley, Beasley, Cha Duri, Cris, Heinze, Lúcio, Zanetti, Adriano, Cambiasso, Drogba, Emerton, Essien, Juninho, Li Tie, Ronaldo

Rest of World XI (Carlos Alberto Parreira and Frank Rijkaard): Dida, Cafu, Cordoba, Marquez, Radebe, Song, Nakata, Deco, Kaka, Ronaldinho (captain), Eto'o. Subs: Kompany, Kuffour, Giuly, Toldo, Vogel, Sükür, Litmanen, Gianfranco Zola, David Suazo, Henry, Buffon, Karembeu, Puyol, Maldini, Stam, Roberto Baggio, Ballack, Totti, Nedvěd, Vieira, Sema

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Statistics

Players with most selections

Testimonial and legends' matches are not included.

Players with most goals

Testimonial and legends' matches are not included.

List of captains

The list includes all matches.

Coaches

The list includes all matches.

See also

• Football for Hope
• Match Against Poverty
• Russia vs World All-Stars (1994)
• 90 Minutes for Mandela
• Soccer Aid
• Rest of the world in sports and games

Notes

References

Sources

• All FIFA XI Matches at fifa.com

External links

• FIFA XI´s Matches - Full Info at rsssf.org
• WORLDXI official page
• AFS - Home of stats and History at 11v11.com
• 1998 INTERNATIONAL MATCHES