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Chertanovo Education Center 
Established 1976 Chairman Nikolay Larin Location Moscow, Russia Sports football Nickname Chertanovo Football School Website http://www.chertanovo-football.ru/ Chertanovo Education Center (Russian: "ГОУ ЦО "Чертаново")), also known as Chertanovo Football Academy or Chertanovo Football School - is a Russian youth football academy based in Moscow, Russia.
The Academy was founded in 1976 as The Sport School of Moscow's Soviet Region. It is based in Chertanovo Severnoye district of the city's Southern Administrative Okrug (former Soviet Region). Academy develops young talents from all over Russia and is open to boys and girls from 6 to 17 years.
Chertanovo Education Center consists of several units: the Football Academy itself, grade and secondary school and sports boarding. Amateur FC Chertanovo Moscow and Women's FC Chertanovo are also included into the Academy structure.
The youth teams are trained by fully qualified UEFA license coaches. The training and education are free of charge.
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Alumni
Igor Kolyvanov at the opening of Kolyvanov Cup-2011.
Chertanovo Academy is well known for its graduates - former forward Igor Kolyvanov (FC Dynamo Moscow, Foggia Italy, Bologna Italy, Soviet and Russian national teams), former defender Vasili Kulkov (FC Spartak Moscow, Benfica Portugal, Porto Porugal, Alverca Portugal, Russian national team), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (FC Everton England, FC Lokomotiv Moscow, Russian national team), Renat Sabitov (FC Tom Tomsk, FC Spartak Moscow, Russian national team), Andrei Gordeyev (FC Metalurh Donetsk head coach, former FC Saturn head coach) and many others.
Youth teams
Chertanovo Education Center.Besides men's and women's amateur teams there are 12 boy's teams (from U-6 to U-17) and 8 girl's teams (from U-10 to U-18) in Chertanovo Academy system.
Tournaments
Moscow Top League. Chertanovo U-14 team captain Alexandr Soldatenkov (left).As of 2011, FC Chertanovo Moscow plays in the Russian Amateur Football League, Zone Moscow, Group A (D-4). Women's football club Chertanovo plays in First Division of Russian women's football championship (D-2).
Youth teams (boys and girls) play in Moscow Top League (D-1) vs best Russian Football Academies, including Spartak Moscow, CSKA Moscow and others.
Youth teams also take part in a number of youth tournaments all around Europe, Africa and Asia.
In 2010 Chertanovo boy's U-14 team took part in Tokyo International Youth Football Tournament as Moscow selected team, boy's U-17 team won the International Tournament in Morocco and U-11 girl's team won silver medals of Vildbjerg Cup in Denmark.
Chertanovo Academy also organizes two International tournaments: The Kolyvanov Cup for boy's U-9 teams in January and The Chertanovo Cup for girl's U-12 teams.
In 2011 The Kolyvanov Cup was held in January. FC Dynamo Kyiv, Skonto FC, Lokomotiv Moscow, CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Strogino Moscow, Khimki were among the participants of the tournament.
The next Chertanovo Cup will start on April 11, 2011.
External links
Categories:- Association football academies
- Youth development organizations
- Football in Russia
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