To the field for a smile - By Julián

With Zanetti and his friends, football was supportive again.

Javier Zanetti's ONG organized a charitable football match in Banfield's stadium. In the meeting football players and ex-football players got together in two teams: The Foundation and Zanetti’s friends. The Foundation, won for 9 to 4.
The Foundation PUPI (For an integrated childhood), created and directed by the Inter football player and Argentinian football team member, helps approximately a hundred boys from the south Buenos Aires’s "conurbano".
The Friends of Pupi, with white vests, included Mariano Andújar, Matías Córdoba, Enzo Francescoli, the actor Nicolás Cabré, Mariano Dalla Líbera, Diego Placente, Roberto Trotta, Gustavo Barros Schelotto, Gabriel Hauche, Néstor Ortigoza, Adrián Gonzalez and Adrián Czornomaz.

While with the green Banfield shirt of the Foundation Pupi played Germán Denis,Zanetti himself, Fernando Redondo, Sergio Goycochea, Lucas Barrios, the singer Axel, Leonel Gancedo, Bruno Marioni, the Colombian Iván Ramiro Córdoba and Jorge Patrulla Jiménez.
The umpire was Francisco Lamolina.
Zanetti said: It didn’t matter the result of the match. None of the people present left the match with the feeling of having lost. Because there was no better victory than to have helped for a noble reason ".
About Pupi Foundation:
With an egalitarian and supportive vision, it generates a model of development for the most vulnerable sector of society.
The offer is a strategy partner education, directed to social sectors that live through the reality of exclusion and are organized for the resolution of unsatisfied needs, specially education, health, housing and work.