The veterans team congratulated Chortkiv on City Day

In Chortkiv they know how to work and rest. Thus, on July 12, as part of the celebration of the 496th anniversary of the city's founding, a football tournament with the participation of four teams took place at the Kharchovik Central Stadium.

The city authorities decided to make a real gift to citizens and guests from all over Ukraine, gathering on one field world-famous domestic football players, a team of local masters of leather ball "Crystal", united in FC "Maestro" pop singers and show business figures , as well as the team of mayors of Ukraine. As a result, four teams played with each other, and the winner of the competition was the national team of Ukraine among veterans, which won convincingly in all meetings!

 

"We had a lot of ideas on how to celebrate the City Day," said the mayor of Chortkiv, part-time goalkeeper of the national team of mayors of Ukraine Volodymyr Shmatko. - The events took place in many locations. We held a prayer breakfast, laid the first 44 trees in the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred Park, gathered 237 people named Peter, Paul, Peacock, Peacock and Petrulin in the courtyard of the cathedral, setting a record in Ukraine. The highlight was a football tournament with the participation of representatives of various professions, united by a love of playing leather ball. And the culmination of the celebrations was a concert in the city park, which awarded the participants and winners of the tournament. The head of the Ternopil Regional State Administration, a native of Chortkiv region Stepan Barna took part in the ceremony. "

Legends of national football congratulated Chortkiv on the City Day with a wonderful game! Anatoliy Demyanenko and Volodymyr Lozynsky gathered the best players of the past years, star football players, whose master class caused applause even from rivals. Three games - three victories!

 

The team of veterans of Ukraine - FC "Crystal" - 3: 1 (goals scored by Shishchenko (2) and Sobutsky).

The team of veterans of Ukraine - the team of mayors of Ukraine - 7: 0 (Sobutsky (2), Shishchenko (2), Tsikhmeyst (2), Donetsk).

The team of veterans of Ukraine - FC "Maestro" - 3: 0 (Sobutsky, Shishchenko, Tsikhmeyst).

Eduard Tsikhmeistruk, the captain of the veteran national team of Ukraine, received a wonderful cup made by a blacksmith from Chortkiv and, by the way, a part-time player of Krystal. Crystal finished second, the mayors' team finished third, and FC Maestro finished fourth. Serhiy Shyshchenko became the best scorer of the tournament with five goals. And the best player was the striker of the veterans' team, FFU Vice President Oleg Sobutsky.

"It's not just words that football can unite society," Oleg Sobutsky shared his impressions of the holiday in Chortkiv. - Representatives of almost all regions of Ukraine gathered in four teams, and there were no barriers between them. Everyone talked, played football, agreed on future joint projects…

The team of veterans opened the score of the second hundred matches, we everywhere emphasize our position on the soonest establishment of peace in Ukraine, support for the military in the ATO zone. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our players and coaches, the leadership of the football federation for their support and assistance. Today we played in Ternopil region, and next week, on July 19, we will go to Kramatorsk for the tournament started by FFU with the participation of six teams of assault troops, where we will meet their best players at Avangard. On July 27 in Vinnytsia at the Central Stadium will be a friendly match with a team of special forces, who will take part in a wonderful tournament - the Cup of Special Forces Heroes. Last year we were at this holiday and gladly accepted a new invitation. And on August 2, on Airborne Forces Day, we will go east again, to Krasnohorivka, in the Donetsk region. There we will be received by border guards, and the game itself will take place a few kilometers from the demarcation line. We will meet with military and local residents, we will show by our own example that the whole of Ukraine supports them.

This is only part of our planned visits, there will be many more, and outside the country. At each of the matches we emphasize that our goal is to hold a peace match at Donbass Arena. To unite and unite all of Ukraine so that it always remains united and indivisible. "

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