ART FOOTBALL

Today, football is really the game of the whole planet. People in every country, on every continent play it – men and women, adults and children. They play football in narrow streets, in dirty fields, and at full stadiums.

Matches with celebrities’ participation add to our game a special scale, as pop-music and film stars manage to make that stream of happiness, that is so characteristic of our sports, inseparable from an artistic performance. The fact that combined teams of musicians and cinema stars meet in not just a single match, but will hold a whole tournament, is even more remarkable.

On the threshold of the 1st International football tournament STARCO, the Russian football union is holding an active promotion campaign to support this event. The FIFA is pleased to note appearance of such combination of sports and spectacular performance and wishes all its participants and the audience that this premiere be a great success.

Joseph S. Blatter