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PRESS CONFERENCE DEVOTED TO THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF SPARTAK Теги: TOURNAMENT
Today
a press conference devoted to the 90th anniversary of Spartak and
international tournament was held in Russian News Agency Press Center.
The
event was attended by Sergey Rodionov (President of our Academy), Valentine
Klimko (Director of Academy), Andrey Tikhonov (Spartak coach), Kirill Kombarov
(alumnus of Spartak school and player of the core team) and Ted Ntirubuza
(football player of our Academy and tournament participant).
It
should be reminded that our club is arranging U-17 international tournament in
the honor of the 90th anniversary of Spartak to be held from April
17 to 22 in Sokolniki. Spartak Academy’s team (players born in the year of
1995) and their peers from Spanish Barcelona, Italian Atalanta, Portuguese
Sporting, German Borussia (Monchengladbach) and French Sochaux will participate
at the tournament.
Sergey
Rodionov told journalists about sports-related aspects of the tournament,
Valentine Klimko – about its organizational and economic aspects. Ted Ntirubuza
described his feelings pertaining to the forthcoming tournament, and Kirill
Kombarov and Andrey Tikhonov regretted that currently they aren’t 16-17 years
old, otherwise they would be glad to participate at such prestigious
competition.
In
addition, at the end of the press conference Andrey Tikhonov formulated the following
request to Spartak fans: "On April 22 during the break of Spartak – Anji match
a grandiose parade of Spartak veterans of all generations will be held. Also
there winners and medalists of the tournament in the honor of the 90th
anniversary will be honored. We invite all fans of the red and whites to
Luzhniki. Let’s celebrate decently the jubilee of our great club!"