At 6:00 p.m. today, the Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida kicked off the world’s longest football match, which will last 120 consecutive hours from today until Sunday, May 22nd.
The first 22 players who signed up for the game kicked off the match, including professional players from the Chilean championship, such as Colo Colo midfielder Jaime Valdés, Deportes Temuco midfielder Arturo Sanhueza, Colo Colo defender Camilo Rodriguez and Vasco da Gama midfielder Felipe Seymour from Brazil.
The match will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the longest match in the world, with nearly 3,000 people from different parts of the country playing for 120 consecutive hours. In doing so, Chile will surpass the record set in England, where a football match was played for 105 hours in 2015.
The number of participants is also expected to break another record, that of the game with the largest number of players in history.
“As Entel, we want to connect people across Chile, and sports is a great way to do that. In the World’s Longest Match, football lovers will be the protagonists of a historic moment in which a Guinness World Record will be broken. We invite all fans to get ready for this great challenge and play the game for the first time ever”, pointed out Gabriela Cohen, assistant Marketing Manager of Entel.
The Guinness World Records authorities will also be in Chile to verify that the record for the world’s longest football match has been achieved.
17 May, 2016
At 6:00 p.m. today, the Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida kicked off the world’s longest football match, which will last 120 consecutive hours from today until Sunday, May 22nd.
The first 22 players who signed up for the game kicked off the match, including professional players from the Chilean championship, such as Colo Colo midfielder Jaime Valdés, Deportes Temuco midfielder Arturo Sanhueza, Colo Colo defender Camilo Rodriguez and Vasco da Gama midfielder Felipe Seymour from Brazil.
The match will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the longest match in the world, with nearly 3,000 people from different parts of the country playing for 120 consecutive hours. In doing so, Chile will surpass the record set in England, where a football match was played for 105 hours in 2015.
The number of participants is also expected to break another record, that of the game with the largest number of players in history.
“As Entel, we want to connect people across Chile, and sports is a great way to do that. In the World’s Longest Match, football lovers will be the protagonists of a historic moment in which a Guinness World Record will be broken. We invite all fans to get ready for this great challenge and play the game for the first time ever”, pointed out Gabriela Cohen, assistant Marketing Manager of Entel.
The Guinness World Records authorities will also be in Chile to verify that the record for the world’s longest football match has been achieved.
At 6:00 p.m. today, the Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida kicked off the world’s longest football match, which will last 120 consecutive hours from today until Sunday, May 22nd.
The first 22 players who signed up for the game kicked off the match, including professional players from the Chilean championship, such as Colo Colo midfielder Jaime Valdés, Deportes Temuco midfielder Arturo Sanhueza, Colo Colo defender Camilo Rodriguez and Vasco da Gama midfielder Felipe Seymour from Brazil.
The match will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the longest match in the world, with nearly 3,000 people from different parts of the country playing for 120 consecutive hours. In doing so, Chile will surpass the record set in England, where a football match was played for 105 hours in 2015.
The number of participants is also expected to break another record, that of the game with the largest number of players in history.
“As Entel, we want to connect people across Chile, and sports is a great way to do that. In the World’s Longest Match, football lovers will be the protagonists of a historic moment in which a Guinness World Record will be broken. We invite all fans to get ready for this great challenge and play the game for the first time ever”, pointed out Gabriela Cohen, assistant Marketing Manager of Entel.
The Guinness World Records authorities will also be in Chile to verify that the record for the world’s longest football match has been achieved.
