In fact, it is a whole sports cluster where football has become all year round. The indoor track has a 40×60 meter soccer field with artificial grass. There are also changing rooms and training rooms. Nearby there is an open football field. The arena cost 164 million.
“Within the framework of the federal project “Sports is the norm of life” of the national project “Demography”, sports infrastructure is actively expanding in Tula, “alexey Dyumin noted. “Last year, we completed the reconstruction of Tula’s oldest cycle track in Russia. Now another football stadium is being built in the Central District of the city.” The head of the region talked with coaches and young footballers, watched the training.
“I like it here,” smiles the young athlete Vladislav. “There are a lot of different elements to train and more opportunities to train.” The guys said that the field in the new arena is good, “it will be happy.” The “Arsenal” sports school trains 452 athletes from 7 to 17 years old. Most of them train on the soccer field. The sports school employs 20 coaches, including 14 based on the arena. Soccer competitions were held at the new stadium on weekends. Alexey Dyumin instructed the head of the Tula administration, Ilya Bespalov, together with the Ministry of Sports, to ensure uninterrupted operation and maximum workload of the arena.
More than 400 sports facilities have been opened in Russia as part of the “Sport is the norm of life” project. More than 65 million Russians play sports.