Team Of Candidate Countries Wins Match 10-7
VIENNA - Team of European Union (EU) candidate countries won a soccer match with the team of EU member countries 10-7 on Thursday.
The match which was arranged for homeless children, was held in Vienna within the framework of EU-Latin America Summit.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu, Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, EU commission Turkey Consultant Jean-Christophe Filori, Turkish national soccer team coach Fatih Terim, a former footballer Zlatko Kranjcar from Croatia, Andrei Zeljaskov from Bulgaria and Klaus Lindenberger from Austria played in team of candidate countries.
Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewic, former footballer from Slovenia Branko Oblac, Jozef Mlynarczyk from Poland, Ilie Nastafe from Romania and Esmail Pashapour from Austria played in the team of EU member countries.
100,000 Euro donation was collected in the match.
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan scored 2 goals and Turkish national soccer team coach Terim scored 3 goals.