The Georgian Football Federation, in cooperation with with VTB Bank and beer company Icy, presents the charity match “World Stars for Georgia”.
A host of former players – stars of world football – responded to the Georgian Football Federation’s invitation to appear in the charity match in Tbilisi on 29 September. They include Francesco Totti, Rivaldo, Dida, Andriy Shevchenko, Javier Zanetti, Zvonimir Boban, Serginho, Paolo Maldini, Luca Toni, Hernan Crespo, Vincent Candela, Marek Jankulovski, Alessandro Costacurta, Demetrio Albertini, Dino Baggio, Massimo ambrosini, Massimo Oddo, Marco Delvecchio, Sebastian Frey, Angelo di Livio, Enrico Annoni, Christian Abbiati, Sebastiano Rossi, Giuseppe Favalli, Mauro Tassotti, Angelo Carbone, Ivan Cordoba, Dario Simic, Ibrahim Ba and Pietro Vierchowod.
The match, where a GFF XI will face a World Select, will kick off at 21:00 at Dinamo Arena on 29 September. All funds from ticket sales will be donated to the Borjomi Forest restoration efforts.
On 19 September, GFF General Secretary David Mujiri hosted a press-conference at the Biltmore Hotel in connection with the upcoming match.
“As you may know, several regions of the country were badly affected by wildfires over the summer. The Georgian Football Federation took the decision to donate all funds from ticket sales for the 2018 World Cup qualifying match between Georgia and Ireland to the Borjomi Forest recovery efforts. Furthermore, we decided to organise a charity game which would excite the Georgian football-mad public, while at the same time contributing further funds to the affected regions. Our idea was to invite world-renowned past footballers to Tbilisi, and I can confirm that together with the players, the 2004 European Championship-winning head coach Otto Rehhagel will also arrive to lead one of the participating teams. As for the full team lineups and the identity of the second head coach, these will be announced later,” stated Mr. Mujiri.
Tickets for the match can be purchased at www.tkt.ge, priced at GEL 5, 10, 15 and 25 by category.
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