Khalifa Haftar hires football legends to inaugurate new Benghazi stadium

Benghazi is preparing for a major sporting event with the official opening of the Benghazi International Stadium, scheduled for February 20. According to the organizers, the event will be celebrated with a special match that will include previous international football glories. World level heroes will move to the field, including Samuel Eto’oand Roberto CarlosPatrick Cleravet, Clarence BodorfJohn Terry, Marco MatiaziJulio Cesar and David TrezeguetteSurrounded by other stars who wrote the history of football. The attendees will also attend Jens Lehman, Michel Saljado, Michael Owen, Julio Babetsta and Luis Nani, former players who played with major European clubs, such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Milan, Rome, Manchester United, Chelsea and Trad.

This event is of special importance for Benghazi, which is a city under the control of the so -called national stability government, and it is a political expression of the Libyan National Army (LNA) for the general. Khalifa HaftarCyrenaica leader. This is not the first time that the “field Marshal” (the highest military rank, equivalent to the year of five stars) has appointed international sports celebrities for events in Libya. Last year, the legend of boxing Mike Tyson He was invited to Benghazi to attend the match that crowned the Libyan boxer Saad Al -Fala World Boxing World Champion (WBA) World Heavyweight Champion in Africa, after defeating Evoore Adama Koni In the clash that was held at Suleiman Douaoub Stadium.

The Benghazi Municipality announced on Thursday, February 20, a vacation, and the public and private offices are closed to coincide with the opening of the stadium that was renewed and other infrastructure projects. The goal is to turn the facility into a Libyan football center, the most popular sport in the country that tries to recover after years of crisis. Al-Nasr Benghazi is the current national champion, where he won his third title in the 2023-2024 season. The Scudetto finals of that edition in Italy, a testimony of organizational difficulties in the country divided into multiple political departments parallel.

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