Benefits of sports for children
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Most often kids are fond of soccer. Almost from pre-school age they start playing soccer in the yard. This, of course, is a good thing. And to help such enthusiasts in the cities and villages of our country organized tens of thousands of soccer and hockey backyard teams. 
But in such young years, few people think about the benefits of sports for children. ...In one of the many yards of the Timiryazevsky district of Moscow, we met with coach Volodya Grachev, a fitter of the furniture factory № 2.
For four years Volodya has been working with the kids: one hundred boys of Housing and Utility Company No. 2 are enrolled in different teams - soccer, hockey, volleyball. They regularly go to trainings, participate in competitions, organize hiking trips.
I came here at the height of the "war" between the guys and the tenants. I immediately received a hail of complaints: the boys trampled a flowerbed with flowers, laundry hung in the yard, soiled, the glass was broken with a ball.
Now it's all behind us," smiles the coach. - Of course, it was not immediately possible to organize everything: there was no room to gather, there was no place to store sports equipment. Thanks to Stepan Egorovich Makarov, the head of Housing and Utility Company No. 2. He gave us possession of one of the rooms of the house department, which used to be a warehouse.
The work boiled over. In "their" room the guys did everything themselves: laid the floors, whitewashed the ceiling, painted the walls. And then we got some property.
Part of our room became a warehouse - there were already a lot of different sports equipment: nets, sticks, balls, skates, skis. Together with Volodya, the guys enthusiastically tell how interesting it is to go to training, play soccer, volleyball, hockey, and just "cheer" for their team.
- One of our soccer teams "Iskorka" won the first place in the district in the summer of 1967, and for this we were given the opportunity to go to Leningrad. - But only it was scary to go to the medical and physical fitness dispensary for examination, - the young athletes recalled. - Has it ever happened that someone was not allowed to compete? - Yes. One of our players was not allowed to play. If he had been a girl, he probably would have cried a lot. But, however, this year he is playing again. He our Volodya together with doctors organized special training. Now Tolka is a full member of the team.
This case reminded us of another story in which physical education and sport helped us to win. We got a little distracted from the young soccer players. They weren't just soccer players.
Running, jumping, special exercises for arms and legs, breathing exercises helped them to become stronger, more enduring, healthier. Sports not only strengthened the guys physically, but also brought up spiritually, developed the will to win, a sense of camaraderie, character, the ability to quickly navigate.
You can read an interesting article about the benefits of physical activity. Everyone who wants to become a real athlete, must remember: every case must be brought to the end. There are no easy victories, and will have to "sweat", as Nikolai Ozolin said.
No matter what data a person has, it is impossible to achieve high results in sports without labor. And who seriously decided to become a member of a friendly and cheerful family of sportsmen, let him know: there is a big and hard, but exciting work ahead.
And even if not all of you will become champions, everyone will benefit: sport is a hardening of the body. Facts are stubborn things. And medics from year to year note that under the influence of systematic training guys better gain weight and height, their breathing becomes more complete, the body's resistance to diseases and colds increases.
