Russian Football Union (RFU) launches the process to officially establish All-Russian Football Day as a professional holiday in the industrial calendar, said the General Secretary of the RFU Maxim Mitrofanov .
— Football has always been and remains the most popular and widespread sport in our country. Around 5 million Russian residents of all ages play football, both at the professional and amateur level.
Millions of fans follow football events on television; about 200,000 Russians are involved in football as workers in a huge industry that has long gone beyond sports and has a huge impact on health, tourism, the urban ecosystem, ideological education of society and the life of the people. way of life. It seems to us that they all deserve their own professional vacation.
This year, the RFU, together with the Ministry of Sports and regional authorities, will organize a holiday on June 1, and will also prepare all the necessary documents so that from 2025 the All-Russian Football Day appears in the calendar of production approved. by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. The optimal date for its holding, taking into account the climatic conditions of our country, seems to be the last Saturday of May,” Mitrofanov was quoted as saying by the RFU press service.
On June 1 and 2, 2024, major football festivals will take place in 83 regions of Russia.
The largest festivals will be held with the support of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation and regional authorities in Volgograd, Kazan, Saransk, Omsk, Kaliningrad, Khabarovsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, Samara, Krasnodar and St. Petersburg.
The main celebration will take place in Moscow, in Luzhniki, on the eve of the FONBET Russian Cup superfinal.
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Source : MatchTV
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