Ilsur Metshin compared the work to prepare talented athletes with a conveyor

(KZN.RU, February 6, Alsu Safina). It is necessary to pay attention to all stages of the formation of professional athletes, said Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, at today's Business Monday. According to him, this issue is increasingly sounds at different levels, including the federal. “The work is not easy, but without it there will not be results and leadership of the country”, assured the Mayor.

“After losing, unfortunately, the leadership in many sports, the country returned to the well-forgotten old”, said Ilsur Metshin. “The conveyor has to work: take the best of the mass and yard sports in children's sports schools and youth teams, then the best of the best - to professionals. We will work hard and do everything we can as the municipality for the conveyor to work flawlessly”.

The Mayor said that a lot of work are being done in the city in terms of training of coaches. “Children's coaches are a special profession”, he said. According to Svetlana Vostrikova, the chairman of the Committee of Physical Culture and Sports, which reported today at the Business Monday on the results of the previous year, 80% of coaches have specialized education in 2015, in 2016 - already 88.2%. The number of part-coaches reduced: from 105 in 2015 to 62 in 2016, while the number of full-time coaches is growing (from 516 to 527 people). The average age of coaches is 43.5 years.

“The increasing of coaches’ wages remains a problem for us. In 2015, it amounted to an average of 19 thousand 696 rubles, in 2016 - 19 thousand 760 rubles. We hope that the situation will change after the board of the Ministry of Sport of the RT, which was held on February 1”, said S. Vostrikova.

18 thousand 744 sportsmen are engaged in 32 municipal Youth Schools on 38 kinds of sports for today. “Last year, 29 of our athletes in 8 kinds of sports have become winners of the world championships. And 234 people on 23 kinds of sports have become winners of the Championship of Russia”, said the speaker.

During her speech, S. Vostrikova drew attention to the fact that this year the focus of the committee's work will be on the revival of the local sport. “This year we are changing the format of such massive children's competitions, as “Golden Puck” and “Leather Ball”. Our goal is to achieve the participation of 340 teams in these tournaments until 2022”, said the speaker. Now coaches of yards’ clubs are assigned to schools, and to maintain the interest of headmasters in assisting of sites, these tournaments are included in the ranking of Kazan educational institutions.

The regional stage of the “Golden Puck” was completed on January 23, in which 77 teams participated (or 1300 boys aged 10 to 15 years), and the final game started on February 2.