ART FOOTBALL

Romania, Israel, Russia and Brazil to head the preliminary groups 15.04.2015 17:56

 The draw of the group stage of the V Artists’ World Championship will take place in Moscow on April 16 with Brazil, Russia, Israel and Romania going to different groups as teams with the highest rankings.

At the preliminary round 16 teams will be divided in 4 groups with 4 teams in each group. According to the tournament regulations the competition will be played with the distribution of all places. The teams finishing first in their groups will qualify for Absolute Stars group (1-4 place), finishing second – for Super Stars (5-8), finishing third – for All Stars (9-12) and finishing fourth – for Stars Forever (13-16).

Brazil, twice champion of the world (2007, 2013), will seek for the third title while Russia playing at home will try to catch up the magicians of the ball as for the number of titles (2008) and Romania, reigning champion, to defend the trophy.

16 teams will take part in the Artists’ World Cup and the “Art-football” music and football festival – Bielorussia, Brazil, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey.