In the athletics and indoor football complex of CSKA, a children’s rugby festival was organized between the teams of Moscow and the Moscow region. 40 teams of children participated in the sports festival. The main task of the Moscow festival was above all participation: playing for fun and discovering rugby. Following the games, all the young athletes received memorable souvenirs and medals. The organizers of the children’s festival were the CSKA Rugby Club, the channel, the Russian Rugby Federation with the support of FAU RF MO RF CSKA, the Patriot.Sport Moscow Center and the Moscow Rugby Federation.
For the first time the Match! Rugby” took place in Moscow in 2021. Then 85 teams from 4 age categories took part in it – these are more than 1000 participants from different cities of Russia. This year, the CSKA Rugby Club, in collaboration with the channel and the Russian Rugby Federation, are organizing a children’s rugby festival called Match! Rugby” is already everywhere in the country.
— Project “Match! Rugby is one of the most geographically important not only in rugby, but also among all team sports, ”says Elena Rudakova, director of the Development and cooperation with sports organizations department of the channel. — Together with the CSKA Rugby Club and the Russian Rugby Federation, we have already organized this sports festival in 27 regions of Russia, and in the near future competitions will be held in 15 more.
At the Moscow festival “Match! “Rugby” teams played tag rugby with great pleasure and got the necessary game training. Traditionally, all guests and young athletes also took part in competitions and activities of the CSKA Rugby Club and its partners. For example, activities for the formed teams were organized by the Children’s Golf Federation, and the Russian champion Novus Sergei Matveyakin organized master classes for the athletes. Young rugby players played the board games novuss, jaccolo, guffleboard, kulbuto, cornhall, elastic and tried their hand at arm wrestling in a special area of CSKA’s Central Sports Club In the activity area of CSKA Rugby Club it was possible to go through a obstacle course and test your accuracy by throwing a rugby ball into a special goal.
“Thanks to the Game! Rugby”, a large number of boys and girls across the country have discovered the best ball game. Many participants of the first festivals have already come into contact with rugby and have begun to perform in municipal, regional and all-Russian competitions. Thanks to the joint efforts of CSKA Rugby Club, the channel and the Russian Rugby Federation, the project has become a real scale, with a rich sports and entertainment program, and exceptional guests. We will continue this work and I wish all young athletes to find true friends in rugby and boldly accompany them in life to great victories,” said Evgeny Arsentiev, General Manager of CSKA.
The award ceremony took place in the presence of Elena Rudakova, director of the Department of development and cooperation with sports organizations of the Match television channel, Evgeny Arsentiev, general director of CSKA RK, Ivan Kapustkin, adviser of the chairman of the Supreme Council of the Russian Rugby Federation, head of the mass sports development department of the Patriot center.Moscow Sport » Ilya Madilov, multiple winner of the Russian championship and cup, former player of the men’s team CSKA Rugby Club Andrey Garbuzov, three-time European rugby sevens champion, three-time Russian Rugby Sevens Cup winner, European Champions Cup winner, CSKA club women’s rugby team player Snezhanna Kulkova .
Let us add that children’s tournaments, which brought together thousands of children, have already taken place in the city of Sevastopol, the Republic of Dagestan, the Republic of Komi, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, the Republic of Crimea, Rostov, Samara , Arkhangelsk, Kaluga , Tula, Orenburg, Novgorod regions, etc.
The next tag rugby competition in Moscow will begin at the end of November as part of the School Tag Rugby League.
Source : MatchTV
