In Sochi passes preparalympic International Football Tournament for persons with cerebral paralysis.

On the training field with artificial turf of the Central Stadium after Slava Metreveli these days is one of the most important events of the world Paralympic sport. A fight between five strongest teams of the World Cup 7x7 persons with the disease cerebral paralysis. For the first time in the history of the International Association of Sports and recreation of persons with CP disease (CPISRA) has entrusted to our country, the competitions of such high rank.
The opening ceremony of the tournament "Forward" was held yesterday on a grand scale. Teams from Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Holland and England, have already received permits fourteenth Paralympic games in London, welcomed with bread and salt. At the grand opening event was attended by the President of the Russian Paralympic Committee, Vladimir Lukin, the president of the International Federation of Football 7x7 Tom Langen, representatives of the International Paralympic Committee, CPISRA, federations and national teams from other participating countries.
For these teams the competition - one of the most important steps in preparing for the Paralympic Games in London: there will be sports medical classification, medical admission to the Olympic Games, without which an athlete can not participate in the Games. The classification in Sochi will be international experts, headed by Joan-Style Meylz, classifier CPISRA. The choice of Sochi as the venue for such an important tournament is not accidental: the Russian national football team spends most of the 7x7 training camps in our city on the basis of the federal government sports training, "South-Sports."
Also yesterday, the first matches of the tournament. The first came on the field teams of Iran and the Netherlands, who finished the meet with a score of 1:2 in favor of Iran. A British national team was unlucky in a battle with the Russian team - three times world champion soccer 7x7. The match ended with a crushing 4-0 victory in Russia's favor.