New tournament for National Teams

During the period from 7th till 11th of March Shimkent city will host the international football tournament "Alma-TV Cup". Participants of the tournament are the National teams of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Schedule of the matches is as follows:

7 March
12:00 Uzbekistan - Azerbaijan
16:00 Kazakhstan - Turkmenistan
9 March
13:00 Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan
16:00 Azerbaijan - Kazakhstan
11 March
13:00 Azerbaijan - Turkmenistan
16:00 Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan

Local time.

Award from UEFA

On 1st of February a press-conference devoted to the youth football tournament “Coca-Cola Bylgary Dop” with participation of representatives of the Football Union of Kazakhstan, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan and “Coca-Cola” company was held. At the press conference the certificate in recognition of “Coca-Cola Bylgary Dop” as the most valuable grassroots football event in Kazakhstan in 2006 by UEFA was presented to the public. Besides that, the organizers have shared their plans and ideas for the current year.

Askar Akhmetov, General Secretary of the Football Union of Kazakhstan: “Football – is not only the World Cup matches or the Champions’ League, it is not only competition between the professionals some of whom earn millions of dollars for their skills. Games of boys at school pitches or playground, sometimes three against three, sometimes with shabby balls or even at snow – these are also football. Exactly at this spot, at playgrounds this glorious game takes its rise. Thus, grassroots which also implies youth, women and amateur football, and football among disabled deserves our highest attention. Each year each country - member of UEFA organizes many grassroots tournaments and all of them are united under a single slogan “UEFA Summer of Grassroots Football”. Later, upon their ending the most important and interesting tournaments gain recognition and appreciation as well as an award, such as the certificate. The Union of European Football Associations has pointed out our tournament as well “Coca-Cola Bylgary Dop”. This means that a year ago we all together – the Football Union of Kazakhstan, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan and “Coca-Cola” company have made a right decision to revive this tournament. For us recognition by UEFA is very important, but at the same time we consider it as a stimulus for future. We want “Coca-Cola Bylgary Dop” to become a part of a daily life of Kazakhstani schoolchildren. So that, gathering together the kids would not discuss only the events happened at yesterday’s disco or to crow about the level passed by him at a new computer game, so that football would find its place in their lives. This is our aim and we believe that together we can achieve this aim”.

Seilda Baishakov, ex-defender of FC “Kairat” and USSR team, head specialist of the Football Union of Kazakhstan on youth football: “Receiving an award from UEFA is very pleasant, however our most valuable achievement is appreciation of the tournament by the kids themselves, their parents and teachers. In 2007 we will try our best to cover even more schools and even more participants. On 16th February meeting of the organizational committee of the tournament will be held in Almaty, after which the “Coca-Cola Bylgary Dop 2007” will start. The first matches are planned to be played in March in Southern regions of the country”.

5.02.07.

Accreditation of the “The Instruction of the Football Union of Kazakhstan on Licensing of football clubs of the Republic of Kazakhstan according to the UEFA standards".

On 31 of July by the UEFA Administration was accredited “The Instruction of the Football Union of Kazakhstan on Licensing of football clubs of the Republic of Kazakhstan according to the UEFA standards". We offer to your attention the official accreditation confirmation, received from the Chief Executive of UEFA Gerhard Aigner and the UEFA Senior Manager Marcel Benz on 11.08.2003.

“To the Football Union of Kazakhstan

UEFA Club Licensing – Accreditation national licensing manual

We refer to your National Licensing Manual submitted to us for accreditation in March 2003 and subsequently revised according to our comments and remarks and submitted to us again for fast review on 25.07.2003.

The document has been subject to careful examination and analysis by the UEFA administration.

The accreditation covers the criteria coming into force, according to your manual, in the 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 season.
The accreditation of those criteria that will be implemented from the 2006/2007 season onwards will follow at a later stage and will be communicated by UEFA in due time.

Based on this examination, we hereby confirm that your national licensing manual contains all the minimum mandatory criteria defined in the UEFA Club Licensing Manual Version 1.0 and this is thus accredited by UEFA.

Please note that any changes to your national licensing manual will have to be communicated to UEFA for new accreditation before they can be implemented.

We thank you for your efforts and wish you all the success with the introduction of your national licensing manual.

We remain at your disposal for any further questions or comments.

Yours faithfully,
UEFA
Gerhard Aigner
Chief Executive”

"To the Football Union of Kazakhstan

UEFA Club Licensing – Accreditation national licensing manual

The accreditation applies to this specific version of your manual. Therefore, as you will see, in the footer we have added “Accredited by UEFA on 31 July, 2003” and our logo.
Any changes to your national licensing manual, i.e.: to this accredited version, will have to be communicated to UEFA for new accreditation before they can be implemented.

Finally, once more congratulations and a big thank to you and your colleagues for preparing the accreditation of your national manual. You did a great job and you can be proud of your work.

We wish you all success in the implementation of your national club licensing manual and remain at your disposal for any further questions and remarks.

Yours sincerely,
UEFA
Marcel Benz
Senior Manager
Legal Services and National Associations”.

Seminar for Kazakhstan doctors

On May 21-22 in Almaty was held a seminar, dedicated to the activity of the football teams' doctors. The course program was including the following issues: epidemiology, the risk assessment; muscles injuries; nutrition; pharmacology in football; injuries of children and adults; joint angles injuries; shoulder injuries; doping; knee injuries; rehabilitation.

The lectures for the Kazakhstani specialists were represented by the Danish doctor Morgens Krutzfeld - Member of the UEFA Medical Committee and the Principal Doctor of the National Team of Denmark: "I'm very honored to be here. Our courses are the part of the UEFA program of exchanging experience and introduction to the specialists some new technologies in sports medicine. Last year I was leading such courses in thirteen countries.
I 'm very impressed by the professional level of your doctors and by the level of our discussions. I think we've done a great and productive work. Another important point is that the Kazakhstani doctors have had a chance to discuss altogether the questions they were interested in".

Vitaliy Topkin, the masseur of the National Team of Kazakhstan:
"The program of course was very interesting and intensive. It captured the questions that the Kazakhstani doctors always have to deal with. I would like to stress out several key moments of the seminar. For instance, the quality of the game and the risk for football players to get an injury directly depend on a quality of a football playing field surface. As you know, this is very important for us. Very often coaches are more interested in results and don't let the players to heal their injuries completely and allow them to play when they are not restored well.
Also I would like to say that we have high qualified doctors as well and their questions had frequently surprised our Danish guest. He appreciated them so much. I think that our football will only have benefits when our coaches will start to consult the team doctors and have a close collaboration with them".

From June, 16 till June, 29 in Dublin (Ireland) will be organized XI World Special Olympic Games. The sportsmen of Kazakhstan, including the football players, will also be participating in these games. The Football Union of Kazakhstan has decided to support local football players, and on February, 27-th at the office of The Football Union of Kazakhstan the young sportsmen were given gifts: football equipment and balls.
Tlekbek Akpayev, the vice-president of the Football Union of Kazakhstan says: " It is very pleasant for us to work with the " Special Olympics Kazakhstan " - the organization, propagandizing sports among people with disabilities. We are glad that we can make our contribution to this movement. We wish our team good luck at the games in Dublin. Guys, love football, football - is the ambassador of peace, it unites people. Remember, that the Football Union of Kazakhstan works for you as well, in order to make you feel like high-grade representatives of the Kazakhstani sports ".
Asylkhan Samratov, the chairman of the Republic's council " Special Olympics Kazakhstan" says: " I would like to thank the Football Union of Kazakhstan for the attention to our movement. This organization was the first one that decided to support us; I hope that it will become an example for other sports federations".