On April 6, in the Cyber Park Arena of IT-Park named after Bashir Rameev, the first in the history of the republican tournament in phygital football, the Youth Phygital Football League of Tatarstan, started. The competitions are organized by the Ministry of Sports of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Football Federation of the Republic of Tatarstan with the support of the Tatarstan Phygital Sports Federation and the Tatarstan Republican Branch of the Russian Computer Sports Federation. KIU, as a university actively participating in the digital movement, took an active part in the event.
The solemn opening ceremony of the Youth Phygital Football League began with a speech by the First Deputy Minister of Sports of the Republic of Tatarstan, Khalil Shaikhutdinov, who congratulated everyone on the new sporting event, wished the competitors good luck and success, and also assured that the Ministry of Sports would send the winning team to the Federal Tournament on phygital football in Volgograd.
During the opening ceremony, KIU, the Football Federation and the Federation of Phygital Sports of Tatarstan signed partnership and cooperation agreements aimed at training highly qualified specialists and holding joint events. It should be noted that our University is the only one with which sports federations have decided to conclude relevant agreements.
After the opening ceremony, interactive football matches between the best university teams took place. According to the results of the draw, the KIU team fell into the conditional "group of death". Our phygital football players beat KFU with a score of 2:1 and drew twice (2:2) with Volga Region State University of Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism and Kazan State Power Engineering University. According to the results of the e-football part, the KIU team takes an intermediate 2nd place and on April 10 will continue its performance on the mini-football field.
We wish our team to perform worthily in the historical competition in a new innovative type of football!