Coach”Rostov » Victor Onopko told that the tree planting campaign in Volgograd has become important to him, this is comparable to the education of football players.
On Monday, star players from Spartak, Rotor and Dynamo Moscow will re-enact the 1943 encounter between Dynamo Stalingrad and Spartak Moscow. The match is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad and will take place at the Volgograd Arena, which hosted the 2018 World Cup matches.
Before the match, football veterans visited the Mamaev Kurgan Memorial Complex and laid flowers, and also participated in the planting of trees in memory of those who died during the Great Patriotic War.
Every tree needs care. As for footballers to grow, to eat an apple, you must first plant a tree and wait five years for it to grow. You also have to follow the players, raise them, love them, talk to them.
The tree planting campaign is important to me. In a year, five or ten years, you come to see them. My father planted trees, and if I see them now, I know they are my father’s trees. All events devoted to the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad are important to me. Without memory, there is no history and no future. Victory Day is ahead of us – the most important holiday in the history of our country, it is the victory gene that has preserved our people.
When we arrived at Mamaev Kurgan, I felt proud of our country. The Fatherland monument is the greatest work that makes you stop and think.
I was invited to play in this match, I accepted it with pleasure. I know that the RFU turned to Karpin with a request to let me go, and Valery Georgievich, without hesitation, gave the green light. He told me to do my best for the football vacation. There will be an almost full stadium,” Onopko told .
Watch the live broadcast of the Dynamo-Spartak retro match on the and MATCH PREMIER channels from 7:30 p.m. Moscow time.
Source : MatchTV
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