House of Football unites representatives of the Ministry of Culture and Youth and various sports departments around the project "City of Sport"

On Tuesday, January 28, at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of Ukraine, the House of Football hosted the second working meeting on the implementation of a new sports infrastructure project in Kyiv - "Cities of Sports".

As part of this initiative, the ministry plans to create a single sports complex in the center of the capital, which integrates the NSC "Olympic" with a number of nearby sports facilities. Therefore, it is natural that the House of Football on this day brought together many representatives of sports management, including Deputy Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Volodymyr Shumilin, First Vice President of UAF Vadym Kostyuchenko, as well as leaders and representatives of sports organizations and facilities. involved in this initiative.

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"Recently, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi initiated the construction of 100 new stadiums in our country, and the Ukrainian Football Association supports and is ready to promote the implementation of this initiative.

In general, it is very important that the Head of State, the Cabinet of Ministers, the sports community, including the Ukrainian Football Association, have joined forces to develop the sports infrastructure as a whole and create affordable conditions for football. Now, for example, at the STC. Bannikov hosts the final matches of the DUFLU championship, matches of international tournaments of Victor Bannikov and Valery Lobanovsky, various children's competitions and football festivals, including those organized with the participation of our international partners and our football legends - Oleg Blokhin and Igor Belanov, as well as tournaments. action in the Donbass.

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NTK them. V. Bannikov is the home arena for the youth and youth national teams of Ukraine and the national team periodically trains here. Therefore, it is a powerful sports asset that can and should be developed, creating new conditions for football for children and adults, "said Vadym Kostyuchenko following the meeting. 

"We are grateful to the Ukrainian Football Association for the invitation to hold this workshop at the Football House. This is a project in the center of the capital, which is part of a large infrastructure project in Kiev called "City of Sports". We have proposed a concept according to which we plan to combine a number of facilities, in particular, NSC "Olympic", "Palace of Sports", the stadium. Bannikov, Athlete Stadium and others in one complex and saturate it with sporting events. Our idea is for Kyiv to get additional sports opportunities. Not just as a city of sports, but as the capital of sports, ”Deputy Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Volodymyr Shumilin shared his ambitions for the future project.

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