Good Football
Significant statistics
588
young football players
35
coaches
>5000
fans in the cities
This project was implemented with SIBUR’s support in 2017 and 2018. Its goal was to promote sports among children and youths, and to help develop regional athletic organizations.
The Tournament Program
The tournament’s program included qualifying rounds in Tobolsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Dzerzhinsk, and Blagoveshchensk, followed by the final meet of four best teams from the four cities, held in Tobolsk. Several members of the Moscow Panel of Referees took part in refereeing the tournament. The list of guests of honor included Russian celebrity football players.
Community Building
To ensure that competing teams are properly rooted for, each city set up its own fan committees dubbed FootComs. FootComs were in competition with each other to see who is better at supporting their teams. FootComs’ leaders attended a leadership and design-skills training class in Moscow. In 2017, the FootCom from Blagoveshchensk (Republic of Bashkortostan) came on top in the competition of FootComs. Following that the city ran a free football school delivered by Championica, the project’s partner. 2018 saw Nizhnevartovsk’s FootCom win the competition, with its team being awarded a grant for implementing a dream project to upgrade the beach on Lake Komsomolskoye.
The project’s special guests included
Evgeny Aldonin
Russian football player, midfielder, Merited Master of Sport of Russia.
Dmitry Bulykin
Russian football player, forward, public figure.
Roman Shirokov
Russian football player, Merited Master of Sport of Russia, medal winner at national and European championships.