Football for Friendship Achieves New GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS(TM) Title for the Most Visitors at a Virtual Stadium
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MOSCOW, May 29 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--
Today, during the live broadcast of the Football for Friendship Grand Final,
the official adjudicator Joanne Brent confirmed that the Gazprom International
Children’s Social Programme Football for Friendship achieved its 3rd GUINNESS
WORLD RECORDS(TM) title. The successful record attempt took place on May 26th
and officially announced and confirmed on the occasion of the Grand Final of
the Ninth Season of the programme on 29th May.
On 26th May, the project Football for Friendship (F4F) achieved a new GUINNESS
WORLD RECORDS(TM) title for the highest number of simultaneous visitors to a
virtual stadium. Users of the multiplayer simulator “Football for Friendship
World” (F4F World) from over 200 countries took part in this world record
attempt.
In the run-up to the record attempt, the Global Ambassador for F4F, the
Brazilian football legend Roberto Carlos, reached out to everyone: “Let us all
become part of a major event. We are all participants in Gazprom’s F4F
programme. We will get this record!” There was also support from the Russian
football champions Yevgeni Aldonin and Dimitri Sennikov, the Russian footballer
of the year (2004) Dmitri Sychev and the ambassador for Russian women’s
football Elena Ryshkova. Russian TikTok stars twins Katya and Nastya together
with Kirill Kolesnikov were present as well.
The multiplayer simulator F4F World was specially developed for F4F in 2020.
International team matches can be organised on this platform in real time. From
24th May 2021 onwards, the 2021 “Football for Friendship eWorld Championship”
with a total of 32 teams, and players from over 200 countries, was contested.
Football for Friendship already holds two GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS(TM) titles. In
2019, F4F achieved a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS(TM) title for the most
nationalities at a football training session. On 5th December 2020, a new
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS(TM) title was achieved in the course of the closing
events of the 8th season of F4F for an online training session with the most
participants.
About Football for Friendship
F4F has existed since 2013. It is organised by Gazprom and supported by FIFA,
UEFA and the United Nations. Over the previous eight seasons, more than 15,000
children and young people from 211 countries and regions have taken part in the
programme.
Programme’s official internet resources:
Photo and video materials for media: http://media.footballforfriendship.com
Website: https://www.footballforfriendship.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/footballforfriendship/
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Source: Gazprom International Children’s Social Programme Football for
Friendship
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