France-Costa Rica soccer match tickets - Assemblee Martinique News

All 5,000 available tickets for the France-Costa Rica benefit soccer game Wednesday sold within hours.

France-Costa Rica soccer tickets sold out

Source : Associated Press

FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique - All 5,000 available tickets for the France-Costa Rica benefit soccer game Wednesday sold within hours.

The 12,000 other tickets for the Nov. 9 friendly have been reserved by workers committees, local government bodies and the French Soccer Federation.

"It's not every day that the French team comes to Martinique and we can see so many French West Indian players," Martinique's football league president Alain Rapon said Friday, the day after the ticket were sold.

The game is raising funds for the families of victims of the West Caribbean Airways plane crash in Venezuela on Aug. 16. Of the 160 killed, 152 were residents of Martinique.

Six players from the French West Indies are on France's roster: Lilian Thuram, Thierry Henry, Sylvain Wiltord, Florent Malouda, Eric Abidal and Nicolas Anelka.

Anelka has not played for Les Bleus since April 2002.

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Tickets for France Costa Rica soccer match

The ticket of this unique event held in Martinique is considered as a collector's masterpiece item for the reasons stated above.

Match France Costa Rica 2005

Result : France 3 - 2 Costa Rica (0-2)
Dillon Stadium : 16000
Referee : Gilberto Alacal Pineda
Goals : Anelka (48'), Cissé (79'), Henry (87') / Saborio (13'), Fonseca (41')

Teams :
France : Barthez, Abidal (Sagnol, 12'), Gallas, Givet (Rothen, 71'), Thuram (cap.), Dhorasoo, Diarra, Anelka (Cissé, 71'), Henry, Malouda, Wiltord (Govou, 63').
Costa Rica : Porras, Gonzalez (Castro 82'), Marin (cap.), Wallace (Myrie, 65'), Drummond, Sequeira, Hernandez (Bolanos, 65'), Centeno, Saborio (Ruiz, 74'), Fonseca, Gomez.