The Football Union of Kazakhstan

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.

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.

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”.

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".

March, 22-24 in Almaty was held the seminar for referees and inspectors. The member of the Referee committee of UEFA, the FIFA instructor of the rules of the game and refereeing methodic, Alexey Spirin is invited to participate at the seminar. The Russian arbitrator, well known in the past, will read a course of lectures for the referee and inspection bodies of Kazakhstan.
After the theoretical course for referees, the practical lessons will be organized in Almaty, Shymkent, and Taraz and at the district of Almaty. Totally, there will be involved about 100 referees.
The inspectors by the end of the seminar would have to pass the exams. Those who will successfully pass the exams would have a possibility to receive a license, giving them a right to serve matches of the national championships.

25 April - National Football Day

This year the Kazakhstan celebrates its 90th anniversary. The year of Kazakhstan Football birth is 1913 when it for the first time mentioned in "Russkiy Sport" newspaper, which was published in Moscow. The same period the constituent assembly of the Muslim teachers school team was held. Later the team was named "Yarysh". The same year, the following first teams were established in Semipalatinsk: SSC (Semipalatinsk Sports Club), "Yarysh" and "Olimp". However, the historic sources didn't bring the exact date of the Kazakhstan Football birth and The Football Union of Kazakhstan decided to fix the date as 25 April - the date of affiliation into UEFA.

This celebration year, the Football Union of Kazakhstan made a present to all Kazakhstan football fans. The Union, in collaboration with "Khabar" Agency and "Samsung Electronics", the general sponsor, have worked out the project, which provides the organization of the national championship matches broadcasting. There will be the broadcasting of one match of the championship every round. The Memorandum of Cooperation was signed on 22 January in the Football Union of Kazakhstan office.

The official Logo of the XII Kazakhstan Championship was represented at the press conference dedicated to Memorandum signing.

27-29 November, Mr. Lennart Johansson accompanied by the delegation honored Kazakhstan with the official visit. Per Ravn Omdal, the UEFA Vice-president, Markus Studer, the Deputy CEO and Jeu Sprengers, the UEFA treasurer were the delegation.
The visit is the sign UEFA pay much attention to Kazakhstan. Last season the clubs debuted at UEFA club competitions. Next year the national youth teams will take part in qualifying rounds of U-19 and U-17 Competitions. The national women team will start at the Continental Competitions. All these events will be of benefit for improving Kazakhstan footballers' skills.
In Almaty the delegation had the meeting with Oralbai Abdykarimov, Kazakhstan Republic Senate Chairman, as well as Victor Khrapunov, Almaty City Mayor. Moreover, the last day of the UEFA delegation visit there was a Reception on behalf of Football Union of Kazakhstan President, Rakhat Aliyev. During the Reception, UEFA President met with Kazakhstan Football representatives. National Olympic Committee President awarded UEFA President with Golden Olympic Award of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Mr. Johansson said: - The main goal of our visit was to study the football situation in Kazakhstan, to listen to your opinions as well as to get introduced with your possible problems. We could assure Kazakhstan is a full member of UEFA with equal rights and obligations like other member associations. I'm sure the Kazakhstan football leaders will do everything for improving the game # 1 in Kazakhstan as well as I hope the Europe will know in future the names of Kazakhstan footballers. I would say again, Kazakhstan - welcome to UEFA!
Your country has a good football past and, nowadays, you are re-building the Kazakhstan football. In this respect, please, pay more attention to young talents. I know this year Tsesna team finished fifth in the international tournament in Sweden. And, this means that you are on the right way. I hope that in 2010 one of the Kazakhstan club will qualify for final in any of the UEFA competitions!
I guess the future football game will be forwarding and attacking and players will stop passing to a goalkeeper. It must be noted that spectators pay money for a nice football. I do believe every player will keep in mind that it's better to attack that defending. The referees should be stricter in the way of giving yellow and red cards. The football is becoming more popular due to women as they are becoming the main part of the whole football spectators.