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Sprint legend Usain Bolt has been called up for a Manchester United legends XI
The Jamaican will play at Old Trafford against a team of former Barcelona stars
However Bolt faces a battle to be fit for the charity match on September 2 after suffering a hamstring injury in his final race at the World Championships

Published: 07:10 EDT, 15 August 2017 | Updated: 09:50 EDT, 15 August 2017

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Usain Bolt will get the chance to fulfil his lifelong ambition of pulling on a Manchester United shirt but only if he can get over the cruel hamstring injury that marked the end of his sprint career.

The Jamaican legend has been called up for a United legends side to play against a Barcelona equivalent on September 2 at Old Trafford.

It gives Bolt just under three weeks to get himself fit after he pulled up in his career farewell race, last Sunday's 4x100m final at the World Championships in London.

Usain Bolt will get the chance to fulfil his ambition of pulling on a Manchester United shirt

He has been called up to play for a legends side next month but faces a race to be fit

Bolt injured his hamstring in his final race, the 4x100m at World Championships in London

Bolt has long been a Red Devils fan and at various times has talked up his ambition to play professional football. Now with his athletics career over he will finally get the chance to show what he can do at the Theatre of Dreams.

On a previous trip to Old Trafford back in 2012 he was presented with a United shirt with 'Bolt 9.63' on the back. The number 9.63 being the time in seconds it took him to claim the gold medal in the 100m final at the Olympic Games in 2012.

Former United captain Bryan Robson will manage the home team, which will feature ex-players including Champions League winners Andy Cole, Edwin van der Sar, Paul Scholes, Jesper Blomqvist, Denis Irwin, Ronny Johnsen, Dwight Yorke, Wes Brown and Phil Neville.

The other former Red Devils stars joined by Bolt are Louis Saha, Mikael Silvestre, Quinton Fortune and Dion Dublin.

Bolt admitted he had endured a 'rough' World Championships in his farewell

The Jamaican sprint legend has long fancied himself as a footballer and will be keen to play

The Barcelona side will be managed by Jose Mari Bakero and the greats set to feature in the game in aid of the Manchester United Foundation include Gaizka Mendieta, Eric Abidal, Migel Angel Nadal and Gheorghe Popescu.

Earlier this year Bolt suggested with some work he could make it at the top in football.

Bolt said: 'At any level, I just want to see if I'd be any good, because I play football all the time with my friends and I think I'm at a good level.