The Seventh Season of the Gazprom International Children's Social Programme 
Football for Friendship has ended. The final events of the project carried out 
with support from FIFA, UEFA, national football federations and associations 
took place from May 28 to June 2 within the framework of the official programme 
of the UEFA Champions League Final. The Football for Friendship World 
Championship brought the programme the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS(R) title for the 
Most nationalities in a football (soccer) training. 

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More than 800 children and adults from Europe, Asia, Africa, South, and North 
America together with more than 160 journalists of the leading national and 
international media took part in the final events.

The Seventh Season guests of honour became the Gazprom Chairman of the Board of 
Directors Viktor Zubkov and the official representative of the UEFA Foundation 
for Children Cyril Pellevat. The legends of football Roberto Carlos, Marco 
Materazzi, Andrei Arshavin, Alexei Smertin, Dmitri Sychev and Anatoliy 
Timoshchuk, UEFA Ambassadors Célia Šašiæ and Ricardo Carvalho, the heads of 
football federations and associations of different countries talked to the 
participants of Football for Friendship.

The Seventh Season was marked with a special event: a football training uniting 
athletes of 57 nationalities that took place on 05/31/2019 within the framework 
of the qualifying games. At the end of the training, the Gazprom Chairman of 
the Board of Directors Viktor Zubkov was awarded the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS(R) 
certificate.

On June 1 in the very heart of Madrid in the central square Plaza Mayor, took 
place the final event of the programme: the Football for Friendship World 
Championship. The first place and the title of the winner received the Antiguan 
Racer team whose lineup was formed by Young Players from Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, Russia, Iran, Italy, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan. Legendary 
football player Roberto Carlos awarded the winners with the cup. 

Roberto Carlos, FIFA World Cup winner and three-time UEFA Champions League 
Winner:

"Football for Friendship is an absolutely unique programme, and kids from all 
over the world wish to join it. Uniting the sports and humanitarian parts, the 
project helps Young Participants develop their talents, choose their way in 
life, and become bright leaders."

All participants of the final events visited the 2019 UEFA Champions League 
Final at Metropolitano stadium in Madrid.


Source: Gazprom Football for Friendship