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Diego Maradona and Roberto Baggio roll back the years as all-stars answer invitation from the Pope to play in Match for Peace

• Interreligous Match for Peace was supported by Pope Francis to promote diplomatic solution for crisis in Gaza
• Football legends from past and present lined up in tow teams - captained by Javier Zanetti and Gianluigi Buffon
• Pupi defeated Scholas 6-3 in the light-hearted exhibition with Inter Milan forward Mauro Icardi scoring a hat-trick
• Most nostalgic moment came when Diego Maradona set up former Italy star Roberto Baggio to score
• Many players including Maradona, Alessandro del Piero and Carlos Valderrama met with the pope at the Vatican

Football legends past and present came together to promote an end to hostilities in Gaza at the Interreligious Match for Peace staged Rome.

The exhibition match was arranged at the behest of Pope Francis, himself an avid supporter of Argentine side San Lorenzo, to to promote a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis in Gaza.

The leader of the Roman Catholic church met several football legends including Diego Maradona, Carlos Valderrama and Alessandro Del Piero at the Vatican before the game.