Turkmenistan national team midfielder Ruslan Mingazov will play in a friendly match against Lionel Messi's “Inter Miami”. This was reported by the Hong Kong club “Kitchee”, for which Mingazov plays.

As part of the “Hong Kong Stars”, Ruslan will take to the field along with five other “Kitchee” players for the game against “Inter Miami”. In addition to Messi, his former “Barcelona” teammates Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba will play for the American club.

The match will be held on February 4 at the Hong Kong National Stadium, which seats 40 thousand spectators.

Ruslan Mingazov is a Turkmen midfielder, player of the Hong Kong “Kitchee” team and the Turkmenistan national team. The best football player of the 2022/2023 Hong Kong Championship season.

Ruslan was born in 1991 in Ashgabat. Started playing football at the age of 6. He played for the Turkmen “Ashgabat”, a number of European clubs, including the Prague “Slavia”, with which he became the champion of the Czech Republic in 2016/17. In March 2022, Mingazov moved to “Kitchee”, becoming the first Turkmen legionnaire in Hong Kong. In 2023, the club extended his contract until 2025.

Last November, Mingazov scored a double for the Turkmenistan national team in a match against the Hong Kong team as part of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying tournament.