"Open football lessons": Ivano-Frankivsk, Kirovograd and Lviv regions completed the first half of the relay

15.07.2021 13:01

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The Ukrainian Football Association and the Football Development of Ukraine Charitable Foundation, together with regional football associations, completed the first half of the Open Football Lessons project with three more festivals. 

Initially, the project was implemented at the Hutsulshchyna Stadium in Kosiv.

Taras Klym, First Deputy Chairman of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Football Association, Mykola Vasylkiv, Executive Director of the Children and Youth Football League of the Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Vasyl Yakymyshyn, Chairman of the Kosiv Football Association, and representatives of local authorities and the education department addressed the audience. They wished the participants of the festival sports achievements, physical training and confident victories.

Congratulating the participants on the start, Taras Klim said: “The project attracts not only future players, but also future coaches, volunteers, fans, all those who want to join the football process and come to the stadium thanks to such festivals. At the same time, participants and schools receive a large number of sports equipment. These are soccer balls, T-shirts, T-shirts, cones, chips, pumps, nets, skipping ropes, ropes, equipment for teachers and other important and necessary accessories for healthy leisure.

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After that, the project walked to Kropyvnytskyi and gathered at the stadium of the Faculty of Physical Education of the Central Pedagogical University. V. Vynnychenko about a hundred primary school students from 12 secondary schools in the city. The event was organized with the assistance of the Regional Football Association, the Department of Education of Kropyvnytskyi City Council and the regional organization of the sports club "Spartak". 

The opening ceremony was attended by Deputy Head of the Department of Youth and Sports of Kirovohrad Regional State Administration Andriy Shchetina, city officials, chairman of the regional football association Viktor Bezsmertny, representatives of the city's sports community and the media. The guests wished the participants inspiration, good health and pleasure from physical culture and sports.

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At the end of June, children from the Lviv region took part in a project implemented by the Lviv Football Association together with the Sambir District Football Association. For four days in the sports and tourist health complex "Prykarpattya" them. Kirill Osmak in the village of Sprynya boys and girls under the guidance of volunteer coaches - employees of the Football House of Lviv region performed various fun exercises at the stadium, played exciting games with balls, cones, hoops, skipping ropes, lines, while mastering the elements of football techniques. . In total, the project involved hundreds of children aged five to 14 from the children's and youth sports school of Sambor, Vynnyky Rukh, the villages of Vilshanyk, Nadyby, Volya Baranetska, Blazhiv, Kulchytsia, Hordynia, and Biskovychi.

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Traditionally, all football lessons begin with a dynamic warm-up. Then the instructors conduct for children a variety of entertaining football games, competitions, contests and other sporting events on the principle of "Football for All". The football field is divided into sectors, each of which employs a volunteer coach with an assistant. They share with children the secrets of football, introduce exercises that help develop accuracy, speed and endurance. Children are cared for not only by teachers and coaches, but also by police and school psychologists. 

At the end of the festival, each child receives a T-shirt in memory, physical education teachers - tracksuits, schools - soccer balls and other sports equipment.

We remind you that for the second year in a row the format of the "Open Football Lessons" has been adapted to the norms of the anti-epidemic regime and social distancing. Thanks to the creativity of volunteers who were trained the day before, a contactless form of work was organized and the simultaneous stay of children on the playgrounds was limited. 

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