Former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez will return to Anfield to play in a charity match on 29 March.
The match, organised by the Liverpool FC Foundation, will feature sides
led by club captain Steven Gerrard and retired vice-captain Jamie
Carragher.
Suarez, who left Anfield to join Barcelona for £75m last July, is among those who have agreed to play.
Fellow former Liverpool players Fernando Torres, Pepe Reina, Dirk Kuyt and Xabi Alonso will be involved too.
Chelsea captain John Terry, his team-mate Didier Drogba and former
Arsenal striker Thierry Henry have also confirmed they will be involved.
The teams will be completed with Liverpool players not on
international duty and academy prospects. The two managers have yet to
be announced.
Suarez won all three English domestic player of
the year awards last season, scoring 31 Premier League goals as
Liverpool finished runners-up to Manchester City.
He left
shortly after receiving a four-month suspension for biting Italy
defender Giorgio Chiellini while playing for Uruguay in a World Cup
match in Brazil in June.
Money raised will go towards a number
of causes, including the club's foundation, which funds community
programmes across the city.
Proceeds will also go towards Alder
Hey's new children's Hospital in the Park project, the Wirral-based
Claire's House children's hospice, youth charities Positive Futures and
Cash for Kids, and Centre 56, which supports women and children who have
suffered or are at risk of domestic abuse.
Credit: BBC Sport
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