MotoGP, Valentino Rossi warms up playing football against Xavi

The event is scheduled: at noon on March 17 at the Dome Aspire Academy, the technical center created in Qatar for the training of young players. 

football game 7 between Valentino Rossi and his friends against a team organized by Xavi Hernandez, the former Barça brain that plays a few months ago in Qatar with Al Sadd.

XAVI AND HIS BROTHERS - The news, still unconfirmed by those involved, was published today by Catalan daily Sport, which reveals that Xavi will play the brothers Oscar and Alex, both with the discrete past in football and also moved to Qatar to collaborate with the Aspire. The rest of the team should be composed of experts of the Academy, directed by Spaniard Ivan Bravo.

VALE AND ITS DRIVERS - Valentino also should have at his side a brother Luca Marini, among other drivers of his team, the VR46: Romano Fenati, Nicholas Bulega, Niccolo Antonelli, Francesco Bagnaia and Lorenzo Baldassarri. For the occasion we were already prepared special mesh, and the event will serve to launch the World Motorcycling which starts in Qatar on March 20, with the first official tests provided shortly after the match between Italian and Spanish.

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