ANRM (National Alliance for the Restoration of Monarchy in Romania) and Kingdom of Serbia Association will play a friendly football match in Timisoara on June 11th, 2017 on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the wedding of HM King Alexander I and HM Queen Maria and the first international football match that the national team of the Kingdom of Romania played then against Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians in Belgrade on June 8th, 1922.
The game is under the patronage of the Royal families of Romania and Serbia, Romanian Football Association and Polytechnic University in Timisoara, and in the presence of HRH Prince Radu of Romania.
The Kingdom of Serbia Association will be represented at the highest level, starting from the President, members of the Managing Board and the President and members of the Executive Board, who will also participate in the game.
The first 10 minutes will be played in jerseys with the names of players who were members of the national teams in 1922 and which will in their honor be worn by players – members of the Association.
Members of our national football team in 1922 were: Dragutin Friedrich, Andrija Kujundzic, Jaroslav Schiffer, Stephen Sterk, Artur Dubravčić, Rudolf Rupec, Dragutin Babic, Branko Zinaja, Emil Perška, Vladimir Vinek and Ivan Šojat.
After that, the T shirts will be exchanged for the memory of this great event. Players will continue in the jerseys of the Kingdom of Serbia and Romania, specially made for the occasion.
Trophy to the winner of the Royal Cup of friendship and medals will be awarded by legendary Romanian national team player and player of Timisoara Jackie Ionescu.
After that, the delegation of the Association will visit the office of the Union of Serbs in Romania and the Serbian Orthodox Church and spend a pleasant evening in this great friendly town.
The next day, the delegation will lay a wreath at the Serbian military cemetery in Arad, where a large camp in Austria-Hungary was where 15,000 Serbs were interned and where around 4500 died.
