Wednesday, December 29 2004 17:20 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kolkata: Mohun Bagan will play an exhibition soccer match with a Nigerian team in Kolkata on Jan 7, 2005 to raise money for the thousands of people in India affected by the Tsunami disaster.

Announcing this, Bagan Assistant General Secretary Balaram Chowhdury told newspersons in Kolkata that a 17-member squad of Saro Football Club of Nigeria would arrive here on January 4 to play the match at the Salt Lake stadium.

The entire gate-money of the match would be donated to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund to give succour to the victims of the one of the gravest tragedies to hit India.

The match is being jointly organised by Mohun Bagan and the West Bengal Sports department.