Franz Beckenbauer: ambassador of Gazprom social project

Russian energy company Gazprom has announced their international social project "Football for Friendship", with Franz Beckenbauer as ambassador.

The "Football for Friendship" initiative brings together children aged from 10-16 in eight European countries: United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovenia and Greece.

The children will work in four groups:
- The first comprises 11 football teams from the 11 Russian cities which will host games at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
- The second group consists of football teams from sports schools and academies at the clubs which Gazprom supports, such as FC Zenit St. Petersburg (RUS), Chelsea FC (ENG), FC Schalke 04 (GER) and Red Star Belgrade (SER).
- The third group will be formed from the winners of Gazprom’s children’s sports competition and creative contest «Flame»
- The fourth group will consist of teams of participating countries in the «South Stream» gas pipeline project (Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovenia and Greece).

All teams of will meet for a tournament in London, from 24-26/05/2013.

Franz Beckenbauer (67 years old and…