Today is World Volleyball Day

Today we have a holiday - the first World Volleyball Day in history! The International Volleyball Federation came up with it, to “combine players, fans, clubs, interested parties, partners and friends from all over the world ". The All -Russian Volleyball Federation supported the initiative, So - let's unite!

Officially, the date is timed to the first public demonstration of the game William Morgan, The creator of volleyball. It was a year and a half after the invention of the game itself, 7 july 1896 year on the territory of the Springfield College. Then Professor Alfred Halsted proposed renaming Mentonet into Volleyball, so that 7 July is also the birthday of your favorite game.

And we have two more beautiful dates, celebrated this year, around which you can also unite: 130 years of volleyball and 30 years of volleyball club Gazprom-Yugra. It turns out, that about a quarter of its history, volleyball "passed" with our team. In fact, Surgut volleyball is an integral and important part of Russian volleyball, a, that is, and world. Despite all the “prohibitions” and “cancellations” it is impossible to deny, that without Russian volleyball of the world looks much more poor and pale, And it would be nice for us all, fans of volleyball all over the world, unite around this simple thought.

Round dates have one important property - they make you look back, On the traveled path, think and draw some conclusions. In Surgut, this path has been traveled from school gyms with nails sticking out of the floor to European cups and ... I wanted to write "Modern Arena", But a truly modern arena in Surgut for 30 never appeared. Much, A lot, Unfortunately, It is not done with us, but contrary to. However, From this, the significance of the titanic work made only increases.

And when you realize this significance, History is not just in the chain of events, and acquires those properties, who made her subject at school: She teaches. She teaches, that sport is much more, than hobby and entertainment, that volleyball, who has become one of the most popular games in the world, really capable of uniting and making this world better. And that Surgut on the volleyball map of the world is an important place, with its own history, forever became part of the development of the game.

World Volleyball Day, which we celebrate today, it seems to me, invented just for this - to realize, Where are our origins, who we were and where did we come. To better understand, Where are we going. In Surgut, thousands of people are united by volleyball: These are those, who made volleyball their profession, and fans in the stands of the "Premier Arena", and children in sports school sections, And numerous Surgutians, playing volleyball after work, etc..

hope, that next year we will have time and will be able to derive some events and competitions for this day. In the meantime, for the first time - let's proudly look back, to step forward with confidence. Volleyball continues!