The opening ceremony of "Football Lesson at schools" was held according to regulations of "State Program for development of football during 2005-2015 in Azerbaijan Republic" signed by President Ilham Aliyev, under the frame of cooperation agreement between AFFA and Ministry of Education in secondary school № 239 in Badamdar settlement on October 12, 2009.
AFFA I vice-president Rauf Aliyev, AFFA General Secretary Elkhan Mammadov, head of Baku City Youth and Sport Senior Management Raqif Abbasov and director of secondary school № 239 Sadaqat Azimova performed and notified that, this project was important for the healthy life of children and youth and increasing popularity of football.
AFFA gave the below equipments for school:
Sport clothes for children, copybooks, pens and all necessary equipments for study.
Football lessons would be held for V, VI, VII class students. It means 14 class and 327 students. 194 of these 327 students are boys and 133 of them are girls.
