Two teams of past and present international players staged a 10-minute friendly match on an artificial pitch laid out on a glacier perched beneath Switzerland's 4,158-metre high Jungfrau peak.

Switzerland and Austria are set to co-host the 2008 tournament which will kick off in the Swiss city of Basel on June 7.

"We got the idea for the game on the glacier after watching television pictures of Roger Federer's exhibition tennis match against Andre Agassi on top of Dubai's biggest hotel and thinking what we could do to make something similar," Euro 2008 chief operating officer Martin Kallen told Reuters on Friday.

"It's perfect because Switzerland and Austria are well known for their mountain scenery. And I'm sure FIFA won't mind as we only played for five minutes each half!"

"It was pretty hard to breathe and I'm glad we don't have to play up here every week," Arsenal and Switzerland defender Johan Djourou told Reuters after the game, which ended in a somewhat stage-managed 5-5 draw.