From August 15 to August 19, Moscow will host the annual international tournament UTLC CUP, which will feature the eight strongest academies from Russia, Belarus, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Serbia. It has been reported press office competitions.
On August 6, a draw was drawn for the participants of the tournament, which included Alexey Grom, Managing Director of UTLC ERA JSC, Boris Rotenberg, Director of the Moscow Lokomotiv Youth Football Development Department, and former Railways players. and the Russian national team Dmitry Sennikov and Ruslan Pimenov took part.
Eight teams born in 2009 were divided into the following groups:
Group A – CSKA (Russia), Fatih Karagumryuk (Turkey), Red Star (Serbia), Dinamo (Minsk, Belarus);
Group B – Lokomotiv (Russia), Fenerbahçe (Turkey), Zenit (Russia), Astana (Kazakhstan).
Tournament matches will be held at Sapsan Arena stadium and UTLC CUP finalists will play at RZD Arena on August 19th.
The winners of previous years were teams such as Barcelona, Red Star, Sparta and Lokomotiv.
“This is a great tournament, the organizers are great. This competition is definitely an adornment of all youth football and an opportunity to look at our guys at an international level, to compare schools.
In such tournaments, the most important thing is to show the children their best qualities and I hope we can discover new names for ourselves,” said Ruslan Pimenov.
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