Last weekend Lisbon hosted the second international children's forum Football for Friendship. In which three players from the South of Russia not only attended the Champions League Final, but also competed for first place in the international children's street football tournament as part of the Russian Cities Team.

Young football players from the South of Russia visited the UEFA Champions League Final 2014

Last weekend Lisbon hosted the second international children's forum Football for Friendship. In which three players from the South of Russia not only attended the Champions League Final, but also competed for first place in the international children's street football tournament as part of the Russian Cities Team.

Last weekend Lisbon hosted the second international children's forum Football for Friendship. Within the framework of which, three players from the South not only attended the Champions League Final, but also competed for first place in the international children's street football tournament as part of the Russian national team.

Anatoly Nemchenko, a graduate of the Football Academy of V. Monday in Rostov-on-Don, Vladislav Lizenko, the goalkeeper of the Volgograd team Olympia and Valiko Kabakhidze, the forward of the Sochi team Monolith – became part of the National Team of Russian Cities and became participants in the second International Forum Football for friendship. The guys represented not only the South, but the whole of Russia.

The Russian team in Lisbon from 23 to 25 May participated in the II International Children's Forum Football for Friendship. Among other events of the Forum, football players from Russia attended the Champions League final, which ended with a score of 4:1. Real equalized in the 93rd minute and then scored three goals in extra time.

As part of the Football for Friendship forum, a street soccer tournament between teams from 16 European countries was also held. The national team of Russian cities in the 1/8 and ¼ finals beat the Italian and Dutch teams, respectively, but lost in the semifinals to the Portuguese Benfica. In the fight against the Turkish Galatasaray for the third place in the tournament, the Russian team won with a score of 3:1.

As the team player Valiko Kabakhidze (Sochi) noted, there is no resentment due to the fact that they lost to the Portuguese. Third place is still honorable, he said.

The Russian team, assembled from players from 11 cities of the Russian Federation and the winner of the Gazprom Spartakiad Yegor Deberdiev, which will host the World Championship in 2018, had only two days of joint training in Moscow before going to the tournament in Lisbon. As the national team coach Ivan Kabakhidze said, he selected the team by calling the youth schools of these cities, discussing in detail which player he needed for which position. We have created an ideal team, an ideal one, Stanislav Kutliyarov (Ekaterinburg) stated as if jokingly, but seriously.

Kutliyarov turned out to be one of the three players of the Russian national team who, at the Benfica stadium, were on Athletico, the rest were Real Madrid fans, even girls from the choreographic ensemble of Lapushka (Ugra), who went to the forum to perform, were on this team. But this is why, the boys from the national team explain that there is Cristiano Ronaldo – they like him. Babich said that he only likes from Atletico only their goalkeeper – Bibo Courtois, and he was ill for Real.