World football stars play in Tbilisi to help restore Borjomi forest
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The Georgian capital of Tbilisi will become the venue of a unique charity match between all-time football stars who will play at Tbilisi Dinamo Arena on September 29.
Rivaldo, Luca Toni, Francesco Totti, Dida, Paolo Maldini, Sébastien Frey, Mauro Tassotti, Massimo Oddo, Vincent Candela, Dario ŠimiÄ, Pietro Vierchowod, Enrico Annoni, Míchel Salgado, Javier Zanetti, Ibrahim Ba, Massimo Ambrosini, Dino Baggio, Luigi Di Biagio, Marek Jankulovski, Angelo Di Livio, Benito Carbone, Marco Delvecchio will play against Andriy Shevchenko, Christian Abbiati, Sebastiano Rossi, Iván Córdoba, Kafu, Giuseppe Favalli, Alessandro Costacurta, Hernán Crespo, Kevin Kurányi, Zvonimir Boban, Kakha Kaladze, Zura Khizanishvili, Alexandre Amisulashvili, Kakhaber Tskhadadze, Aleksandre Iashvili, Giorgi Kinkladze, Levan Kobiashvili, Gocha Jamarauli, Giorgi Demetradze, Levan Tskhitishvili, Mikheil Kavelashvili will play a friendly charity game in Tbilisi upon the invitation of the Georgian Football Federation (GFF) and its partners.
Some of the football stars have already headed to Georgia.
Direction Tbilisi, tomorrow it's back to the field ... the bus should be the right one!” Francesco Totti has tweeted.
Direzione Tbilisi, domani si torna in campo… l’autobus dovrebbe essere quello giusto! pic.twitter.com/J5Uz1wgn2I
— Francesco Totti (@Totti) September 28, 2017
The charity match between the world stars united under "World XI” and "GFF XI” teams is scheduled for 9 pm. The money gathered from the sales for the event will be spent on the restoration of the forest burnt in Borjomi Gorge in August.
Unveiling the final list of the players this evening, GFF believes the match will not only unite football fans but also support the restoration of Borgomi Gorge after the massive wildfire.
I arrived in Frankfurt, and in a little while Milan. May God continue to bless this trip. Tomorrow I'll be in Georgia. If God wants”, Rivaldo posted on his Facebook page.
The football stars were invited by GFF immediately after the massive forest fire happened in Borjomi Gorge that burnt for seven days before being put out in late August.
Tickets can be bought for 5, 10, 15 and 25 GEL via www.tkt.ge.
The charity match is scheduled for 9pm and the money accumulated from the sales for the event will be spent on the restoration of the forest burnt in Borjomi Gorge in August.
A unique charity match between the all-time football stars has ended with a score of six to five as the "World XI” team defeated "GFF XI” at Tbilisi Dinamo Arena today. GEL 403,214 gathered from the sales for the event will now be spent on the restoration of the forest burnt in Borjomi Gorge in August.
A commission was set up upon the initiative of the Environment Ministry and involved the country’s leading nature experts to assess the situation and develop a plan of forest restoration.
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