{"id":499234,"date":"2026-02-03T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-first-legends-world-cup-will-bring-together-romario-puyol-aguero-and-henry-in-brazil\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:16:43","slug":"the-first-legends-world-cup-will-bring-together-romario-puyol-aguero-and-henry-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/the-first-legends-world-cup-will-bring-together-romario-puyol-aguero-and-henry-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"The first Legends World Cup will bring together Rom\u00e1rio, Puyol, Ag\u00fcero and Henry in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/p>\n\n\nRio de Janeiro (EFE).- Rio de Janeiro will host this year the first edition of the World Legends Cup, the Legends World Cup whose title will be disputed by 160 figures from 8 countries, among which the Brazilian Rom\u00e1rio, the Spanish Carles Puyol, the Argentine Sergio Ag\u00fcero and the French Thierry Henry stand out.\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> Premier League surpasses 450 million in winter transfer market<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe new world tournament, whose next editions have already been assigned to Saudi Arabia, China, and the United States, will try to bring together some of the biggest idols of world football so that new generations can get to know them and the old ones can remember them, they announced this Monday at a press conference.\n\n\u00abIt won’t just be an exhibition. It will also be a competition and the players who have already accepted the invitation have said they are very excited to compete again and for the possibility of competing for a world title\u00bb, said the founder and president of the World Legends Cup, Saudi businessman Nasr Jawid Buyadi.\n\n\n

Legends’ World Championship<\/h2>\n\n\nAlthough the date for this year’s edition has not yet been set – it will most likely be in the second half of the year – it has already been agreed that the seven qualifying matches will be played at the Nilton Santos stadium and the final at the Maracan\u00e3.\n\nThe competitors in the first edition will be Argentina, captained by Sergio Ag\u00fcero and coached by Gabriel Batistuta; Brazil, led by Cafu and with Zico on the bench; Spain, which will have Carlos Puyol as captain and Fernando Hierro as strategist, and France, with Thierry Henry as captain and Patrick Vieira as coach.\n\n\n
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Personas con el trofeo de la Copa Mundial de Leyendas (WLC) este lunes, durante la presentaci\u00f3n en la casa de especa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nCompleting the list are Italy, captained by Gianluigi Buffon and coached by Paolo Maldini; Netherlands, with Clarence Seedorf commanding on the field and Ruud Gullit on the bench; Saudi Arabia, whose captain will be Yasser Al-Qahtani and coach Majed Abdullah; and Nigeria, led by Nwankwo Kanu and with Khalilou Fadiga on the bench.\n\nAccording to the tournament rules, the matches will be 60 minutes long (two 30-minute halves) with eleven players on the field and another nine on the bench, but substitutions will not be limited.\n\n\n

\u00abIt’s very special\u00bb<\/h2>\n\n\n“It’s very special for those of us who already play football <\/a>to have the opportunity to play in a World Cup like this. I am very happy to be one of the Brazilians who will have the opportunity to return to the field to do what I like most, which is playing football, especially in my city and at the Maracan\u00e3,” said Rom\u00e1rio.\n\nAt the World Cup presentation event, Clarence Seedorf, who is also one of the main organizers, and former footballers such as the Argentinian Javier Saviola, the Italian Alessandro Nesta, and the Brazilians Emerson and Athirson were also present.\n\n“We will come with the claw and competitiveness as always, although we know that we will face very tough teams. The most important thing is that we can enjoy the tournament and that the children can meet their parents’ idols,” said Saviola.\n\n\n
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120 Interested Ex-Footballers<\/h2>\n\n\nSeedorf stated that the organizers have already contacted around 120 former soccer players and that they all expressed their interest and enthusiasm. “The only thing we need is the date,” he said.\n\n\u00abWe did a date analysis based on hotel availability, potential, and the calendar, and we already have the date defined, but we prefer to leave it pending and announce it later,\u00bb Buyadi affirmed when questioned by EFE.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rio de Janeiro (EFE).- Rio de Janeiro will host this year the first edition of the World Legends Cup, the Legends World Cup whose title will be disputed by 160 figures from 8 countries, among which the Brazilian Rom\u00e1rio, the Spanish Carles Puyol, the Argentine Sergio Ag\u00fcero and the French Thierry Henry stand out. You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25Sa","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}