The Russian plenipotentiary envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District, Alexander Khloponin, will lead the football team in a friendly match against world football stars in Grozny on May 11, Yuga.ru reports.
Stars of world football will play in the warm-up match at the open stadium named after Akhmad-Hajji Kadyrov in Grozny, RIA Novosti reports.
Diego Maradona, Alain Boghossia, Franco Baresi, Luís Figo, Manuel Amoros, Roberto Ayala, Robbie Fowler, Enzo Francescoli, Steve McManaman, Jean-Pierre Papin, Christian Vieri, Ivan Zamorano, Fabien Barthez and other world football stars will play.
Well-known Russian football players will play against them. They will be led out by Khloponin. The team was named “Caucasus”, due to players from various regions of the North Caucasus in the team, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said.
Well-known Russian players such as Rinat Dasayev, Dmitri Alenichev and Nikolai Pisarev will take part.
