Youth football in Kazakhstan: current status and development trends

Abstract

Currently, football in general and children and youth football in particular is not only a popular sport, but also a holistic socio-cultural phenomenon which is experiencing a quite significant boom in Kazakhstan. The state policy and the private sector play an important role in the development and improvement of children's sports in the country. This article is a comprehension of the accumulated experience of this sector and determination of actual directions of its development in the future. In the context of research of a modern condition, tendencies and directions of development of the modern Kazakhstan children's and youth football, including inclusive sport the materials from domestic practice and experience of foreign countries are used. These materials allow to define the most actual tendencies of development of children's and youth football in Kazakhstan. The article uses retrospective, descriptive and analytical research methods. In addition, the analytical processing of domestic and foreign publications in the considered direction makes it possible to demonstrate the essence of the problem under study in greater relief.