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Football for Friendship Sets New World Record: Most Nationalities in Football Training Session

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Madrid, Spain – May 31, 2019 (PRNewswire) Within the framework of the events of the Seventh Season of the Gazprom International Children’s Social Programme Football for Friendship, uniting participants from 211 countries and regions, a football training with the most nationalities in the world took place on May 31 in Madrid. At the end of the training, Football for Friendship received an official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® certificate.

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Miquel Puig, the CEO of the Soccer Barcelona Youth Academy and Josep Gambau, the ex-coach of the FC Barcelona youth team conducted the training in which participated representatives of 57 nationalities. They helped Young Players master several new tricks before the Football for Friendship World Championship Final.

Achieving this record is a landmark event for the Football for Friendship programme that has the goal of promoting the values of equality of all cultures and nationalities. In just 7 years, the programme has gained 5 million supporters around the world, and united 6 thousand participants from 211 countries. I have no doubt that there are many wonderful victories ahead for the F4F project,” says the CEO of Soccer Barcelona Youth Academy Miquel Puig.

At the end of the training, Gazprom Chairman of the Board of Directors Viktor Zubkov has received the official certificate of obtaining the title from the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® representative and congratulated Young Participants of Football for Friendship on the new global victory.

Football for Friendship sets new world record

Football for Friendship sets new world record

One of the key events of the programme is the Football for Friendship World Championship. Traditionally, the International Teams of Friendship uniting athletes aged 12 of different nationalities, gender, and physical abilities participate in the competition. The Final of the World Championship will take place on the UEFA Pitch in Plaza Mayor on June 1.

The final events of the Seventh Season of the Gazprom International Children’s Social Programme Football for Friendship take place in Madrid from May 28 to June 2. On June 1, the participants of the programme will visit the 2019 UEFA Champions League at the Metropolitano Stadium.

Programme’s official Internet resources:

Photos and video materials for the media: http://media.footballforfriendship.com
Official Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/FootballForFriendship/
Official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/FOOTBALL4FRIENDSHIP
Official Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_for_Friendship
Official Twitter account: https://twitter.com/football4f
Official website: https://www.gazprom-football.com/en/home.htm

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Which Football Leagues Draw the Biggest Crowds?

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Source: Statista

In many aspects the English Premier League (EPL) considers itself the best in the world, and rightly so. It is the most widely followed football league in the world, it has incredible financial resources, a handful of history-laden world class clubs and definitely the most entertaining line-up of managers, including the Pep Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp. Sure, there is the nuisance of the world’s best (certainly most acclaimed) players Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo stubbornly scoring their goals in Spain and Italy, respectively, but apart from that it’s hard to argue against the EPL.

There’s one aspect though in which the Premier League is beaten by another one of Europe’s “Big Five” football leagues and that is stadium attendance. According to a recent report published by the CIES Football Observatory, the average attendance at Premier League games between the 2013 and 2018 was 36,675. During the same period, matches of the German Bundesliga on average lured 43,302 people into the arenas. As opposed to the Premier League, the Bundesliga still allows unseated stands, which a) keeps ticket prices down and b) increases the average capacity of the stadiums.

As our chart illustrates, the Premier League does have the top-tier leagues from Spain, Italy and France easily beaten in terms of attendance, but as long as it keeps its strict seating policy in place, it probably won’t be able to challenge the German league in that respect. Considering that the lion’s share of the clubs’ earnings comes from TV rights anyway these days, it is doubtful that anyone within the EPL will be losing any sleep over this statistic though.

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