❉ ❊ ❋ Starko Russian Variety Stars Football Club ❉ ❊ ❋ Now it's almost a legend. In May 1991, she was just a dream dreamed of by three Russian musicians: Viktor Reznikov (a famous Leningrad composer who died tragically in 1992), singer and composer Mikhail Muromov, and head of the Architects group Yuri Davydov. It was they who initiated the creation of the Starko football team of Russian pop stars, which forms the basis of the project of large-scale shows that combine football matches with gala concerts of the most popular Russian pop and rock performers. The idea of ​​FC Starko was supported by the most popular Russian musicians, Russian pop stars of the first magnitude, including Vladimir Presnyakov Sr. (Petrovich), Vladimir Presnyakov Jr., Andrey Misin, Sergey Belikov, Valery Syutkin, Chris Kelmi, Evgeny Belousov, Sergey Krylov, Vladimir Kuzmin, Yuri Loza, Alexey Glyzin, Alexander Barykin, Batyrkhan Shukenov and many others. Zhenya Belousov joined Starco in 1993. From 1993 to 1997. ❉ ❊ ❋ The team of pop stars, which became FC Starko, held its first official match on August 19, 1991 near St. Petersburg, despite the ban of the State Emergency Committee. Project football club"Starco" entered the international level when in December 1991 an agreement was signed with the national team of Italian singers "Nazionale Italiana Cantanti" to hold charity matches in Moscow and Florence. The first match-concert took place on May 1, 1992 in Moscow at central stadium in Luzhniki. Stars performed for the Italian team of Kinder singers: Gianni Morandi, Eros Ramazotti, Riccardo Foli, Pupo and others. In their first international meeting, Russian artists won a landslide victory. The return match took place in the fall in the town of Pistoia, near Florence. Ambitious Italians have not managed to take revenge, content with a draw 0:0. The funds from these matches were transferred by the artists to the needs of the Central Children's Traumatological Hospital No. 20 in Moscow. In 1993, FC Starko made a tour of the cities of Germany, where the artists met with the team of the kreistag (district council) of the Furstenfeldbruck district (Bavaria) and performed at festival concerts in Wolfsburg (Lower Saxony) and Maisach (Bavaria). Of course, the highlights in the biography of Starko were football meetings with journalists from Radio Liberty in St. Petersburg, as well as a trip to Ireland and a trip to the Russian music festival, held on the Portuguese island of Madeira in the fall of 1995. Within the framework of the festival, a mini-football tournament was held, in which, in addition to Starko, veterans of Spartak Moscow and the Portuguese national team took part. In 1999, after the Yugoslav events, friendly matches were held in Yugoslavia and Russia, and then a train with humanitarian aid was sent from Moscow to Belgrade. In September 2000, after the tragic death of the Kursk submarine, a game was held with the Polish artists' team - the R.A.P team in Warsaw, and all the funds raised were transferred to the children of the dead sailors. The spectacle of the matches and their unchanging charitable purpose have become a constant plot of Starko's twenty-year biography. There are hundreds of matches played, and millions of spectators both in the distant and recent past. A detailed chronicle of Starko can be expanded on many pages, but if we try to talk about the club briefly, we will recall the brightest and most unforgettable meetings of recent years ... On June 12, 2005, the tradition began to celebrate the Day of Russia in the capital with a charity event "Under the flag of Good!" . As a result of the first match and concert of Russian pop stars that year, 11 million rubles were collected, which were directed to targeted assistance to 36 children in need of treatment. Since 2006, the Action "Under the flag of Good!" became known as All-Russian. It was held in Kazan, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Yaroslavl and ended in Moscow. Assistance totaling over 26 million rubles was received by 102 children. The First World Football Championship among artists - Football and Music Festival "Art-Football" in Sochi (2007) became a large-scale event of a world level. The idea of ​​holding a World Cup among artists has been discussed in different versions and in different countries of the world for several decades - since the first artistic teams began to appear in the late 70s and 80s. But this idea could be realized only in Russia. The author of the idea and concept was the President of the football club of Russian pop stars "Starko" Yuri Davydov, the Organizing Committee of the "Art-football" festival was headed by the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich. 16 artistic teams from Argentina, England, Belarus, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Cameroon, Korea, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, France, Estonia and Japan responded to the invitation to come to Sochi. The initiative of the organizers of the Art Football Festival was supported Olympic Committee Russia and the Sochi 2014 Bid Committee as the final large-scale sports and music event before the IOC vote in Guatemala. The festival ran in parallel with the voting ceremony and ended on that unforgettable night when our country received the right to host olympic fire. Sochi Art Football ended with a grandiose international gala concert. 41 football match and 9 concerts in the Festivalny hall and other venues in Sochi gathered more than 20 thousand spectators, aroused great interest among Russian and foreign media and many rave reviews. The participants of the Championship also fulfilled a good mission of helping seriously ill children - as part of the All-Russian charitable campaign "Under the flag of Good!". Representatives of the teams presented certificates in the amount of 5,616,000 rubles to parents of children from the Krasnodar Territory who need cochlear implantation. Members of the Brazilian national team became the first World Champions among artists. In 2008, a similar festival was held in Novorossiysk. 12 teams made up of pop, film and television stars from England, Belarus, Brazil, Germany, Korea, Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Estonia, Japan fought for the title of world champions, according to a scheme similar to the FIFA world championships. As a result, just as in Sochi, assistance was provided to children with congenital hearing loss. By a joint decision of the musicians of the countries participating in the festival, the main task and motto of the artistic football championships were determined: “Let`s help the children to hear a music!” (“Let’s help children hear music”). Football and music festivals "Art-football" have no analogues in the world in terms of scale and originality. Another highlight of 2008 was the Day of Russia - a match between Rosich-Starko and the combined team of world celebrities was played at the Lokomotiv stadium. The Russians received a team of Italian pop singers “Nazionale Italiana Cantanti” with the participation of Pupo, Riccardo Foli, Sandro Giacobbe and others. In 2009, to participate in the Action “Under the flag of Good!” A unique team of "Coaches of Russia" was specially assembled, which included the stars of domestic and world football: Ziko, Eddu, Fedor Cherenkov, Georgy Yartsev, Valery Gazzaev, Sergey Ovchinnikov, Stanislav Cherchesov, Alexander Borodyuk, Berndt Stange, Andrey Bal and Igor Korneev. In 2010, the Action events were held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Taganrog, Krasnodar Territory, as well as in the city of Varkaus (Finland). And the central event of this year's Action was a football match between the joint team of politicians and artists "Rosich-Starko" and the team "Stars of Business and Football", which included well-known entrepreneurs and famous football players. On the Day of Russia, not only the match was held, but also a massive sports and music festival, which was attended by more than 40,000 spectators. The end of the year was the first Charity hockey match between the teams of Russia and the Czech Republic - with the participation of political, pop and hockey stars, as well as young athletes from the two countries. The main event of 2011 was once again the match on the Day of Russia at the Lokomotiv stadium - between the team "Politics and Variety Stars" ("Rosich-Starko") and the "KVN Team". The stands of Lokomotiv were again densely packed - there were more spectators than the average for the matches of the Russian Football Championship. 40 certificates for expensive treatment to children, mothers and fathers, even grandparents who came from different cities of Russia, were solemnly presented by eminent politicians, artists and musicians. The total "weight" of assistance in monetary terms this time amounted to more than 10 million rubles. Journalists noted that this match in terms of entertainment "...could compete with a meeting of professional clubs Russian Premier League". This was followed by a series of "star" games: matches in St. Petersburg, Kazan, Arzamas, Chelyabinsk, Zheleznogorsk and Kaliningrad. During the four hours of the concert, almost the entire star cast of Starko performed on stage, as well as partners and friends of the team: Yuri Davydov and the Zodchie group, Sergey Belikov, Sergey Krylov, Igor Melnik, Dmitry Kharatyan, Dmitry Malikov, Yuri Malikov and the group " Gems, Andrey Zabludovsky (Secret group), Sergey Minaev, Valery Yarushin (Ariel group), Grigory Gladkov, Alexander Shevchenko, Andrey Misin, Alexander Ivanov and the Rondo group, Batyr Shukenov (A Studio group) , soloists of the Moscow Operetta Theater Ivan Vikulov and Pavel Ivanov, Semyon Milshtein, Vlad Topalov, Irakli Pirtskhalava, Pierre Narcissus, Edgar Zapashny, the Romario and Iplay of Words groups The cities where the Starko team played. Amsterdam (Netherlands) Arzamas Belgorod Belgrade (Serbia) Berlin (Germany) Bobrov Warsaw (Poland) Vilnius (Lithuania) Vinnitsa (Ukraine) Vladikavkaz Vladimir Volgograd Volgodonsk Vologda Gelendzhik Gorodets Dzerzhinsk Domodedovo Donetsk (Ukraine) Dublin (Ireland) Dusseldorf (Germany) Ekaterinburg Yelets Yerevan (Armenia) Zheleznogorsk Ivanovo Izhevsk Irkutsk Kazan Kaliningrad Kemerovo Kyiv (Ukraine) Kirov Kirovsk Chisinau (Moldova) Klaipeda (Lithuania) Koper (Slovenia) Kostroma Krasnodar Krasnoznamensk Krasnoyarsk Kurgan Kurchatov Liverpool (England) Limerick (Ireland) Lipetsk Lyskovo Madeira (Portugal) Maysakh (Germany) Mezhdurechensk Minsk (Belarus) Mirny Moscow Mytishchi Munich (Germany) Naberezhnye Chelny Nalchik Neryungri Nizhnevartovsk Nizhnekamsk Nizhny Novgorod Novokuznetsk Novomoskovsk Novorossiysk Novosibirsk Norilsk Odessa (Ukraine) Omsk Orekhovo-Zuevo Osnabrück (Germany) Perm Petrozavodsk Pistoia (Italy) Pushkino Riga (L atvia) Rostov-on-Don Samara St. Petersburg Saransk Saratov Severouralsk Smolensk Soviet Sochi Sukhumi (Abkhazia) Taganrog Tallinn (Estonia) Tashtagol Tbilisi (Georgia) Tver Tobolsk Tuapse Ulan-Ude Faro (Portugal) Khimki Chelyabinsk (C) Zhenya Belousov Group - brilliant and unique! 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Within the framework of the eighth festival "Art-football" a charity match of the action "Under the flag of goodness" was held between the artists-football players of "Rosich-Starko" and the World team, made up of participants of the World Football Championship among artists.

Before the start of the match, an impromptu concert was held with the participation of a dance group, which forced all the guests and participants of the festival to film their magnificent performance on their phones. Bright girls and imposing guys danced so much at the Sapsan Arena stadium that it was very difficult for the football players - artists who went to the game after them to surprise the spectators who filled the stands of the Cherkizovsky stadium almost to capacity.

As part of Russian team politicians, actors, athletes and musicians were: Dvorkovich Arkady Vladimirovich: Co-Chairman of the Council of the Skolkovo Innovation Fund, Chairman of the ANO "Organizing Committee" Russia-2018 ", Novak Alexander Valentinovich: Minister of Energy Russian Federation, Oreshkin Maxim Stanislavovich: Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Gulyaev Nikolai Alekseevich: Head of the Department of Sports and Tourism of the City of Moscow, Konov Dmitry Vladimirovich: Chairman of the Board of PJSC SIBUR Holding, Podguzov Nikolay Radievich: CEO FSUE Russian Post, Averbukh Ilya Izyaslavich: TV presenter, world and European champion in figure skating, Davydov Yuri Nikolaevich: musician, composer, leader of the "Architects" group, co-organizer of the "Art Football" festival, president of the Starko football club, organizer of the action "Under the flag of Good!", Dmitriev Viktor Petrovich, Chesnokov Artyom, Shestakov Ilya Vasilyevich: Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Head federal agency in fishing, Vikulov Ivan: soloist of the Moscow Operetta Theater, Ivanov Pavel: soloist of the Moscow Operetta Theater and the Moscow Musical Theater, Dmitry Belotserkovsky: actor, series "The Eighties", Alyoshkin Alexander: actor of the theater "Commonwealth of Taganka Actors", Zapashny Edgard : world-famous trainer, circus performer, Bulatov Viktor: football veteran, three-time champion of Russia in football as part of Spartak, Alexander Alaev: General Director, Secretary General of the Russian Football Union, Vitaly Katkov: Vice-Rector for Concert Activities of the Moscow Conservatory, Valery Yarushin: musician, composer, leader of the Ariel VIA, Honored Artist of Russia, Irakli: singer, radio host, Alexey Barats: actor, director, screenwriter, "Quartet I", Sergey Minaev: singer and musician, Mikhail Grebenshchikov: DJ, TV presenter, Igor Bogomazov: artist, ex-group "Inveterate scammers", Dmitry Loskov: football veteran, midfielder, two-time champion of Russia in football as part of Lokomotiv, Denis Maidanov: songwriter, composer, poet, actor, music producer, Romario: author and performer, Romario group, Igor Melnik: soloist of the Demarch group, Dmitry Sibirtsev: director theater "New Opera".

Superstar Russian composition no less famous rivals from the World team were opposed: Argentina - Manuel Sarrabayrouse, actor, Argentina - Rojas Benja, actor, Belarus - Alexander Volchok, music director and keyboardist of the Delta group, administrator of FC Art-Stars, Great Britain - James Weston , singer, Germany - Matthias Zimmerling, former professional footballer, Germany - Michael Fritz, illustrator, Italy - Timaco Michael, magician, Kazakhstan - Chingiz Tolegen, actor, singer, South Korea - Jung Chulho, singer, Paraguay - Nestor Lopez, singer, guitarist, Peru - Alexandro Gomez, actor, Peru - Luis Càceres, TV presenter, Poland - Maciej Florek, choreographer and dancer, winner of the first season of the show "You can dance", now - member of the jury of this dance competition, Romania - Ghedi Camara, singer, Serbia - Milan Kalinic, actor, Slovenia - Nani Franc Mat Jasic, director, musician, president of "Art Football" Slovenia, Slovenia - Aljosa Debevec, dancer, former champion Rock-n-roll (dance) councils, Slovenia - Matevz Derenda, famous singer, Rock Defect rock band, Turkey - Aksel Üstün, actor and film producer, Turkey - Ümit Kantarcılar, actor and TV presenter. Main character the most popular TV series of Turkey "Kanatsız Kuşlar", Brazil - Marcelo Melo Jr., actor, singer, Holland - Rudy Lima, DJ, Iran - Mehdi Salehpour, actor, Kyrgyzstan - Tolon Tursunaliev, singer.

The meeting ended with a score of 5-3 in favor of the Russian team. But the main action of the charity gala match took place during the break. Star and famous participants of the World Football Championship among artists presented certificates for treatment to children and their parents. This was the main goal of the organizers. this match. Happy children and parents thanked the campaign "Under the flag of goodness" for the assistance provided, and the audience supported the charity event of the "Art-football" festival with applause.

And the evening of the eighth World Football Championship among artists ended with a grandiose concert of participants in football battles. The founder of the festival "Art-football" Yuri Davydov also shook with antiquity, performing two new songs with a new band with the breathtaking name "Evil Old Men".

Material: Vladimir Sabadash from the Sapsan Arena stadium
Photo: Vladimir Golikov

Within the framework of the eighth festival "Art-football" a charity match of the action "Under the flag of goodness" was held between the artists-football players of "Rosich-Starko" and the World team, made up of participants of the World Football Championship among artists.

Before the start of the match, an impromptu concert was held with the participation of a dance group, which forced all the guests and participants of the festival to film their magnificent performance on their phones. Bright girls and imposing guys danced so much at the Sapsan Arena stadium that it was very difficult for the football players - artists who went to the game after them to surprise the spectators who filled the stands of the Cherkizovsky stadium almost to capacity.

The Russian team of politicians, actors, athletes and musicians included: Dvorkovich Arkady Vladimirovich: Co-Chairman of the Board of the Skolkovo Innovation Fund, Chairman of the ANO "Organizing Committee" Russia-2018 ", Novak Alexander Valentinovich: Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Oreshkin Maxim Stanislavovich: Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Gulyaev Nikolai Alekseevich: Head of the Department of Sports and Tourism of the City of Moscow, Konov Dmitry Vladimirovich: Chairman of the Board of PJSC SIBUR Holding, Podguzov Nikolai Radievich: General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post, Averbukh Ilya Izyaslavich: TV presenter, world and European champion in figure skating, Davydov Yuri Nikolaevich: musician, composer, leader of the "Architects" group, co-organizer of the "Art-football" festival, president of the Starko football club, organizer of the action "Under the flag of Good!", Dmitriev Viktor Petrovich, Chesnokov Artyom, Shestakov Ilya Vasilyevich: Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Head Director of the Federal Agency for Fisheries, Vikulov Ivan: soloist of the Moscow Operetta Theater, Ivanov Pavel: soloist of the Moscow Operetta Theater and the Moscow Musical Theater, Dmitry Belotserkovsky: actor, series "The Eighties", Alyoshkin Alexander: actor of the theater "Commonwealth of Taganka Actors" , Zapashny Edgard: world-famous trainer, circus performer, Bulatov Viktor: football veteran, three-time Russian football champion as part of Spartak, Alaev Alexander: general director, general secretary of the Russian Football Union, Katkov Vitaly: vice-rector for concert activities of the Moscow conservatory, Valery Yarushin: musician, composer, leader of the Ariel VIA, Honored Artist of Russia, Irakli: singer, radio host, Alexei Barats: actor, director, screenwriter, Quartet I, Sergey Minaev: singer and musician, Mikhail Grebenshchikov: DJ , TV presenter, Bogomazov Igor: artist, ex-group "Otpetye swindlers", Loskov Dmitry: football veteran, midfielder, two-time Russian football champion as part of Lokomotiv, Denis Maidanov: songwriter, composer, poet, actor, music producer, Romario: author and performer, Romario group, Igor Melnik: soloist of the Demarch group, Dmitry Sibirtsev: director of the Novaya Theater Opera".

The superstar Russian line-up was opposed by no less famous rivals from the World team: Argentina - Manuel Sarrabayrouse, actor, Argentina - Rojas Benja, actor, Belarus - Alexander Volchok, musical director and keyboardist of the Delta group, administrator of FC Art Stars, Great Britain - James Weston, singer, Germany - Matthias Zimmerling, former professional footballer, Germany - Michael Fritz, illustrator, Italy - Timaco Michael, magician, Kazakhstan - Chingiz Tolegen, actor, singer, South Korea - Jung Chulho, singer, Paraguay - Nestor Lopez, singer, guitarist, Peru - Alexandro Gomez, actor, Peru - Luis Càceres, TV presenter, Poland - Maciej Florek, choreographer and dancer, winner of the first season of the show "You can dance", now - member of the jury of this dance competition, Romania - Ghedi Camara, singer, Serbia - Milan Kalinic, actor, Slovenia - Nani Franc Mat Jasic, director, musician, president of Slovenian Art Football, Slovenia - Aljosa Debevec, dancer, former Soven champion rock and roll (dance), Slovenia - Matevz Derenda, famous singer, rock band Rock Defect, Turkey - Aksel Üstün, actor and film producer, Turkey - Ümit Kantarcılar, actor and TV presenter. The protagonist of the most popular series in Turkey "Kanatsız Kuşlar", Brazil - Marcelo Melo Jr., actor, singer, Holland - Rudy Lima, DJ, Iran - Mehdi Salehpour, actor, Kyrgyzstan - Tolon Tursunaliev, singer.

The meeting ended with a score of 5-3 in favor of the Russian team. But the main action of the charity gala match took place during the break. Star and famous participants of the World Football Championship among artists presented certificates for treatment to children and their parents. This was the main goal of the organizers of this match. Happy children and parents thanked the campaign "Under the flag of goodness" for the assistance provided, and the audience supported the charity event of the "Art-football" festival with applause.

And the evening of the eighth World Football Championship among artists ended with a grandiose concert of participants in football battles. The founder of the festival "Art-football" Yuri Davydov also shook with antiquity, performing two new songs with a new band with the breathtaking name "Evil Old Men".

Sabadash Vladimir from the Sapsan Arena stadium.

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On May 25, the eighth Art Football Festival kicks off at the RZD Arena. 16 teams from Europe, Asia and Latin America will compete for the title of world champion among artists.

The Art-Football Festival is an international component of the charitable campaign Under the Flag of Goodness!, the purpose of which is to help seriously ill children in need of expensive treatment.

The opening of the festival will take place on May 25 at 18:00. Spectators will receive a musical greeting from all participating teams, as well as a concert of the best foreign stars.

Tournament matches will be held at the Sapsan Arena. Russian national team group stage will play with the teams of Slovenia (May 26, 17:00), Romania (May 28, 19:30) and Belarus (May 30, 19:30).

During the festival, you will be performed by the ensemble named after. Aleksandrova, Emir Kusturitsa and The No Smoking Orchestra, Valery and Alyona Yarushin with the songs of The Beatles, Belarusian Pesnyars, DJ Quicksilver, DJ Alex V, DJ Ruslan Nigmatullin, South American DJs, Urban Smash, group Rostfrajerji and the Kallay Saunders band.

On June 1, on Children's Day, Edgard Zapashny will perform with a circus program. The next day, a concert awaits you with the participation of Valery Syutkin, Sergey Minaev, Mikhail Grebenshchikov, Viktor Zinchuk, Alexander Shevchenko, Pierre Narcisse, Vlad Topalov, the Romario, Demarch and Evil Old Men groups.

The closing of the festival will take place on June 3 and will include the final of the championship, awarding the winners, a charity football match "Rosich-Starko" against the world team, a gala concert of the winners of the festival "Art-football" 2018 and the performance of the group "Time Machine.

Alexander Zhukov, Arkady Dvorkovich, Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Novak, Nikolai Gulyaev, Sergey Lavrov, Sergey Shoigu, Vladimir Solovyov, Ilya Averbukh, Edgard Zapashny, Leonid Barats, Rostislav Khait (Quartet "I"), Sergey Minaev, Denis Matsuev, Viktor Zinchuk, Valery Syutkin, Mikhail Grebenshchikov, Garik Bogomazov (Otpetye Swindlers group), Yuri Davydov (Architects group), Sergey Kristovsky, Ruslan Nigmatullin, Dmitry Loskov, Sergey Kiryakov, Oleg Kornaukhov, Viktor Bulatov .

The world team will include representatives of the participating teams of the festival, as well as guests of honor of the festival - Gianni Infantino, Emir Kusturica, Alexander Gleb, Mario Kempes and others. The final lineup of players will be announced on the eve of the match.

You can download a free ticket, as well as find out the detailed schedule of matches and concerts on the Art-Football website.

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