The Russian Football Union is launching the “Football in Every Yard” project at two pilot sites in the Vnukovo residential complex in New Moscow and the Lyubertsy project near Moscow. Classes will be held every Saturday until the end of September, and the first training session on August 5 for residents of the Lyubertsy residential complex was conducted by ex-Russian national team players Ruslan Pimenov, Evgeny Aldonin and “People’s Team” football player Mikhail Krapivnikov.
Classes are available to everyone aged 10 years and older. The necessary information can be found in the TG channels of residential complexes and information boards on the territory of residential complexes. The RFU will provide classes with qualified trainers and provide equipment from Jögel, the Union’s technical partner.
Ruslan Pimenov, Evgeniy Aldonin and Mikhail Krapivnikov held a warm-up, showed basic sets of exercises and held exhibition matches. Everyone was able to take pictures and take autographs from ex-players of the Russian national team.
The goal of the RFU project is to revive backyard football and life at regional sites. For this purpose, the most comfortable conditions for training and playing are created in the city’s courtyard “boxes”.