Actress Penelope Cruz and Paralympic fencing champ Bebe Vio are set to be the hosts of this year's 27th charity Match for the Heart between the Italian singers' 11 led by Gianni Morandi and the Smile Champions's actors and comedians team led by comic Gabriele Cirilli.
Proceeds of the May 30 game in Genoa will go the city's famed
Gaslini children's hospital.
Also present in the guests' box will be FIFA President Gianni
Infantino and Vice Secretary Zvonimir Boban.
Celebrity players will include Enrico Ruggeri, Ermal Meta,
Benji and Fede, Moreno, Rocco Hunt and Clementino for the
singers, and for the actors and comics Luca Zingaretti, Luca
Bizzarri e Antonino Ornano, Maurizio Felugo.
Sampdoria's former Italy striker Fabio Quagliarella and Genoa
goalie Mattia Perin will also take the field.
photo: Vio at Rome derby with Francesco Totti
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