Academy Konopleva (Togliatti) - the most modern football center of the Volga region

Until recently, the city of Samara region, known as the famous Italian Communist Palmiro Togliatti, was famous for the production of domestic cars, in the last decade it occupied a prominent place on the map of Russian football schools.

Academy Konopleva (Togliatti): the main milestones of creation and formation

Here, the basics of football art were such stars of the domestic Premier League as Alan Dzagoev and Arthur Yusupov. Academy of Football. Konopleva (Togliatti) is one of the most famous nurseries of Russian football talents to date. At once six graduates of this center of sports preparation triumphantly completed the junior championship in 2006. The most famous of them is the former Spartak player I. Gorbatenko, who is quite successful now for the "Wings of the Soviets" native to him Samara.

The Konoplev Academy (Togliatti) originates from the Lada Olympic Reserve School, opened in 2003 in the town of Primorskiy, Samara Region. The main inspirer of this process was the local businessman Yu. P. Konoplev, who set himself an ambitious task - to turn an ordinary football school into one of the best educational institutions of the country, graduates of which could eventually compete on equal terms with the best similar institutions from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov and Kazan.

Success exceeded all expectations. The Academy of Konoplev (Togliatti), which in the middle of 2000 became known as the "Wings of the Soviets", with the efforts of its founder for a number of years, advanced to the Volga region. Representing her teams began to regularly win prizes at regional and All-Russian competitions, and the highest level of infrastructure allowed the Academy in 2006 to win the title of the best in Russia.

True, it was this year that a misfortune happened. In the fortieth year of his life, Yu. Konoplev died, which led to a significant decrease in funding and a fairly significant drop in results. Football Academy Konopleva (Togliatti) (this name was given to her one year after the death of its founder) has gone through many very difficult stages, several times stood on the verge of complete closure, until in 2013 it was not taken on its balance by the administration of the Samara region. State support provided an opportunity not only to overcome financial and infrastructural difficulties, but also to reassert itself at the all-Russian level.

Today Konoplev Academy: Infrastructure Breakthrough

Today, the Konoplev Academy (Togliatti) is a first-class sports and education center that allows teenagers and young people aged 10-18 years to comprehend the basics of football mastery from leading experts and teachers. At the same time, the center's management pays special attention to the educational process, making sure that the students of the Academy receive good knowledge and general educational skills.

The Konoplev Academy (Togliatti) has all the necessary infrastructure. Its core is ten football fields, exactly half of which are natural. All of them have international certificates of conformity and allow not only to carry out the training process, but also to hold competitions at the children's and junior level from regional to international level.

Football Academy Konopleva (Togliatti): modern technologies for restoring athletes

Today's sport is impossible without a modern medical and rehabilitation base. The Konoplev Academy (Togliatti) includes not only several baths and a swimming pool, not only equipped with the latest gym equipment, but also several jacuzzi baths that, thanks to the increased oxygen content, contribute to a much faster recovery of the organisms of young athletes.

Problems and prospects for the development of the sports center

One of the main problems for the development of any Russian football academy is the availability of the opportunity to promote their students in the team of masters. The Konoplev Academy (Togliatti) is in this respect in a much less favorable position than the educational institutions of such grandees as Spartak and Dynamo. The flagship of the region - "Wings of the Soviets" - experienced a noticeable crisis in recent years, so the main springboard for the students of the Academy were Russian national teams of different ages. It was in this way that the same Dzagoev and Yusupov passed at the time, it was youthful teams that are considered by many guys as an excellent springboard for getting into the top Russian teams.

Football Academy named after Konoplev (Togliatti) is an excellent example of the fact that with a professional approach to the work you can achieve impressive results, not even in the Russian football region itself.