Ronaldo's wife to enthrall UAE fans

Brazilian Ronaldo, world and European Player of the Year, will regrettably miss the testimonial match of Adnan Al Talyani, the former UAE national team captain, at Zayed Sports City on January 3, but has committed to send his wife and soccer star Milene Domingues instead.

Ronaldo has apologised to the organisers for his inability to join the All Stars Team in their friendly match against Italian Serie A champions Juventus.

Milene, who also plays professional football with Atletico Madrid, will attend the match and will actually give a display of her ball control talents during the half-time. Milene holds the world record of ball control for women with a performance that lasted 9 hours and 15 minutes.

Adnan Al Talyani, who led the UAE national team through most of the 90s, was recently voted the country's best player of the 20th Century.

The All Stars Team
(Read as player, nationality and club):
Peirre Eissa (South Africa) Olympic Beirut; Igor Duljaj (Yugoslavia) Partizan; Artim Sakiri (Macedonia) FC CSK Sofia; Taribo West (Nigeria); Fabio Galante (Italy) Torino; George Weah (Liberia) Al Jazira; Bulent Korkmaz (Turkey) Galatasaray; Ali Karimi (Iran) Al Ahli; Andreas Herzog (Austria) Rapid Vienna; Hany Ramzy (Egypt) Kaiserslautern; Zvonimir Soldo (Croatia) FC Stuttgart; Sergey Ovcinnikov (Russia) Lokomotiv Moscow; Valdimir Jugovic (Yugoslavia) Monaco; Reda Bogdanovic (Yugoslavia) Armenia Bielefeld; Nawaf Al Timyat (Saudi Arabia) Al Hilal; Papa Diop (Senegal) Aarau FC; Li Ming (China) Dalian; Marco Simone (Italy) Monaco, Giuseppe Signiore (Italy) Bologna; Gabriel Omar Batistuta (Argentina) Roma; Nakamura (Japan) Reggina Nourredine Naybet (Morocco) Deportivo La Coruna; Antonis NIkopolidis (Greece) Panathinaikos; Mohsin Mussabbah (UAE) Sharjah and Adnan Al Talyani.

Bruno Metsu, Al Ain's French coach, will act as coach for the All Stars Team.