Football is a sport that does not leave anyone indifferent. Many love to drive the ball itself, someone is emotionally watching the game, and someone is engaged in the training of future professional athletes. Volodymyr Krot trains young footballers who start their sports career in futsal. By the way, this young sport is rapidly developing and spreading around the world
“From my childhood I was fond of football. The first training started at the Talynskyi Youth School, under the direction of Viktor Rebrova, but he graduated from the Zhytomyr SDUSHOR in 1995. Our trainer was Satsyur Nikolai Petrovich, unfortunately, he is no longer alive. After school, I entered the military institute, but there was somehow no football, and I did not develop in this direction at that time. It was possible to go to a civilian high school, but I chose the military one. And I hoped to develop both training and sports at the same time. But it did not work – preserved their football abilities ”
“Then he played football when possible, and in 2003 he met with Alexander Green, Konstantin Kozhanov, Nikolai Kirillovich and Oleksandr Levchenko. Played together on weekends in football and communicated. We are playing to this day, but now we are trying to reach a professional level, we strive to learn »
“Our club is called InBev-Zhytomyr. The club’s biography began in 2001, today there are great achievements: the team is a two-time champion of the city of Zhytomyr for the futsal, the finalist of the Cup of Ukraine among the fans of mini-football and among the teams of the first league, the bronze prize-winner of the international tournament FAN CUP-Budweiser in Brazil, the owner of the first Futsal Cup of Zhytomyr and many others. In 2015, InBev FC was awarded the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine as the best club in Zhytomyr region ”
“Our club has found support from InBev Ukraine. This is a company that advocates the rational use of alcoholic beverages, so it makes its motto: “Consume Responsibly.” And it is logical that the company invests in the development of sports”
“The structure of the InBev-Zhytomyr club has been developed, we have several teams that are represented in different championships. In the highest division of Ukraine – FC InBev \ NPU, in the championship of Zhytomyr – FC InBev and FC InBev-2, but this is not all. A separate direction in the structure is the development of children’s and youthful futsal. This year we plan to represent Zhytomyr in the Futsal Championship among children of 2007-2008 with FC InBev Junior team, and this will be the first time»
“There is a world practice when a child starts playing football in the gym from 4 to 5 years, so she is preparing for big football. That is, at first he gets the necessary physical training and gets some skills»
“I had many like-minded people. For example, Michael Sokolovsky. We once talked about our childhood, which we lacked, what we wanted for the better. I shared my thoughts, but he himself remembered his own experience. When I was living in the Baltics, Azerbaijan, I saw good things that could be used with us. We understood that we had to prepare the young generation for big football, that we had in this gap, that the technique is a bit behind. And I really want to pull it up”
“Now, thanks to Konstantin Kozhanov and Mykola Kyrylovych, we have grown up to the fact that we can lease the hall and invest in the development of the children’s futsal. This year we signed a memorandum of cooperation with the mayor S. Sukhomlyn. We have another team of the Extra League, this is the highest division, professional players. And all of this we are actively developing”
“Once I was fortunate enough to attend a seminar that was held in Ivano-Frankivsk. The seminar was attended by representatives of the club “Livorno”. Then there was information on licensing coaches from the Futsal Federation. And then everything was systematized for me, and I realized that I had to study”
“In December 2016, he took a special training at the Football Federation of Ukraine on the basis of the Federation of Futsal and received a diploma category C. Now I have the right to train children’s and amateur teams in the territory of Ukraine. I had both experience and some knowledge, but it was important to systematize everything here.”
“FIFA, through cooperation with the Futsal Federation, embodies its methods and technologies for training children and youth. Our further goal is to organize a children’s futsal sports school, which will then influence the development of football in Ukraine”
“With children I really like to work, in them the brain is completely ready for the perception of information. If an adult has his or her experience, takes some knowledge, and rejects some, then the child perceives everything that is being taught. Especially when the child wants herself, not when parents insist on doing something. It is these children who learn everything faster”
“We have just 16 pupils, with whom there are four trainers. There is a head coach – Mikhail Sokolovsky, I’m a coach for futsal, a coach for physical education – Lyudmyla Tybeikyna, Fitness trainer – Irina Sokolovska. Although now we are only engaged in the guys, but we plan that the girls will also be. There are many girls who would like to learn to play football, but they do not know where to go. Women’s football is growing very fast now, and FIFA recommends recruiting girls and boys and training them up to 12 years in one team. There are special techniques for training mixed teams. And although from May we started to train only boys, but in the future we plan to develop ”
“When we planned to open a group, we realized that almost everywhere we have classes for money. Families with a minimum budget can not afford to pay a great deal of money, and a talented child can not take care of and show themselves. But the management of the club decided that those who we are collecting must be occupied. The fee is purely symbolic for us – 150 UAH a month. It is not money now, especially since they are still spent on what children need: equipment, celebration of birthdays or other corporate needs”
“We have a tradition: every child on a birthday we are preparing a present. This year, for example, we gave each one metal bottles for water. Then the parents are going together, buying sweets, tea. So all together and we celebrate. Futsal is a community, communication. The team has 16 children and parents. All are bundled with a common idea and a common goal »
“At the moment we have one goal: a comprehensive development of the child with the help of modern approaches, the newest techniques. At our training on children, we have four disciplines: physical training, fitness, tactics and futsal equipment. The child receives a lot of information, treats it and has the opportunity to develop harmoniously ”
“As a rule, if officials allocate funds for sports, they want the child to immediately show the result. In European countries, there is no such approach. There the child just develops. There are even such moments when children’s matches do not count on the children to not injure. The main thing here is the development process itself. Like the child to play another sport, for example, basketball – let it be. There, coordination, and power loads are trained through game practice. Like football? Well, we develop thanks to football or futsal»
“If someone thinks that futsal, mini-football, and hence less load, than he is mistaken. At us, the load is not less, just quite differently distributed. Much depends on the coverage that is harsher in the rooms; moving players more dynamically; ball movement faster; time to decide less. From this load is more and the joints suffer more»
“Children need to be brought up through football. What do I personally like about the game? Understanding that you are not alone. This is a team game, and you’re part of the team. And each member of the team should contribute to the achievement of a common goal. This is important for football, for other sports, for the family and for the country. You have a sense of community»
“I hope that there will be new prominent soccer names in Zhytomyr soon!”
Translated by Aliona Matushevich
