Amputee National Football Team Coach Osman Çakmak declared that their objective is to get extra disabled individuals concerned in sports activities by establishing amputee soccer groups in all 81 provinces of Türkiye.
Osman Çakmak, the venerable tactician of the Crescent-Stars who clinched the previous two European Championships along with the 2022 Amputee Football World Cup in Türkiye in October, divulged the plans in Hatay, the place he visited to partake in a number of occasions.
Çakmak revealed that, in a bid to lift enthusiasm among the many youth, that they had congregated with the residents of a number of cities and cities throughout Türkiye.
Çakmak emphasised each their very own difficulties and the thrilling championship expertise of their groups in these organizations, saying: “Our youth understand how to conquer the obstacles they face, however we additionally endeavor to show them how to tackle the difficulties that come our way in the spots we visit. We have won titles, and have experienced hindrances en route. We even accomplished the highest point of accomplishment, turning into European champions! I have consistently longed for bringing the World Cup home to our nation, and with our group, we practically gave it as a blessing. I share these accounts with our young people to exhibit the intensity of assurance and yearning.”
Noting their ambition to see amputee soccer grow to be accessible in all provinces, Çakmak expressed that there are at the moment amputee soccer groups established in 14 cities throughout the nation.
He declared that there are 30 amputee groups in Türkiye, and went on to emphasise that they’re striving to speculate sooner or later in order that their success just isn’t forgotten in 5, 10 years’ time.
“When I was the captain,” he reminisced, “I said that one day amputee football will be identified with Türkiye. And I say it again, amputee football is synonymous with Türkiye in the world.”
Çakmak recollected fondly his go to to the Yayladağı district of Hatay, the place he had the pleasure of assembly with the youth. He expressed his pleasure on the vitality he obtained from the disabled, noting that it was a really touching expertise.
Osman Çakmak emphasised that they should work laborious to achieve extra disabled athletes and stated that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan got here from sports activities and had a really totally different view of the disabled.
He expressed his gratitude to the president as a veteran and nationwide workforce coach and talked about the assist of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Family and Social Services and the Ministry of National Education.
He urged that if the “big four” groups, Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, Beşiktaş and Trabzonspor, had disabled or amputee sports activities beneath their very own construction, it could assist to extend its reputation and they might be capable of obtain their dream of 81 amputee groups in 81 provinces.
