Their England team features former professionals such as David Seaman, Jamie Carragher and Robbie Fowler, plus stars including Jack Whitehall, Olly Murs, Paddy McGuinness and John Bishop.
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However, the game ended with England taking home the trophy with a 3-2 triumph! However, Murs dragged his shot narrowly wide of goal as the two sides headed into the interval.
And Niall also got a chance to shine, if only briefly, in the second half.
Initially, Jose Mourinho got the gig to manage an England XI against a Rest of the World XI but cried off a couple of days beforehand handing match day control to Sam Allardyce.
With seven minutes on the clock, the centre-forward beat the offside trap and former Netherlands worldwide Jaap Stam, but his heavy touch inside the area allowed World Cup-winning goalkeeper Dida to block his shot on goal.
The Three Lions opened the scoring through a Mark Wright thunderbolt before second-half substitute Dimitar Berbatov netted twice in quick succession, the second from the penalty spot.
Robbie Williams acted as coach this year.
England were down to ten men at this stage after Ben Shephard was dismissed for a second yellow card but then Jermaine Defoe showed his fitness as befits a player who only a few weeks ago was helping Sunderland avoid relegation, with strikes in the 64th and 76th minutes.
But in true England style, minutes later they were down to 10 men.
Nearly 104K unique authors Tweeted about Soccer Aid 2016, and Tweets about the match were seen by a total unique audience of 2.4 million.
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