Austria an Switzerland played a friendly in Alps' highest glaciers on Friday

Austria an Switzerland, the nations who will jointly host the next year's Euro 2008 Championship ( Basel on 7 June 2008 ) has played a friendly 5 a side football match in one of the Alps' highest glaciers on Friday .

Two teams of past and present international players staged a ten-minute friendly match .The idea of this type of match came from Roger Federer's exhibition tennis match against Andre Agassi on top of Dubai's biggest hotel

The five-a side match between the traditional skiing powerhouses was played a 10-minute match which has ended in a 5-5 draw. The match was played on an artificial pitch laid out on a glacier perched beneath Switzerland's Jungfrau peak which is 4,158-metre (11,630 feet) high above from sea level.

Three Guest player like former stars Michael Laudrup of Denmark, Paulo Sousa of Portugal and Liverpool's Polish goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek also played in the match.

The main thing is that last month, world soccer's governing body FIFA banned official international matches at altitudes higher than 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) because high altitude matches could damage players' health and give an unfair advantage to the home side.But the protest against this decision of FIFA came from Latin American countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.