Active members of the Student Union and Committee on Youth Affairs of S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University played a football match against members of FC Irtysh at the Central Stadium.

The main purpose of the event is promotion of healthy lifestyles, encouraging students to do sports, and establishing friendly relations between sports teams.

It is undeniable that the involvement of youth in sports, especially in team sports, promotes positive attitude to sport and contributes to formation of values of sports culture.

Our younger generation will shape the image of Kazakhstan in the future. Only highly-educated, competent and healthy people can lead our country to prosperity. Therefore, it is really important for young people to spend their time usefully, choose healthy lifestyles, as this will be a guarantee of prosperous future for our country. With this in mind, S. Toraighyrov PSU students decided to test themselves and play football against real professionals.

Two teams of our University, PSU-1 and PSU-2, played in the semi-finals. Many students of the University came to support the players. In the final, PSU-1 played against the first team of FC Irtysh (Timur Bayzhanov, Vyacheslav Kotlyar, Sergey Strukov, Anton Chichulin, Konstantin Dudchenko).

The game was very close. The spirit of competition combined with high skills of professional footballers made the match very vivid and truly unforgettable for PSU students.

PSU activists plan to continue holding such sports events on a regular basis.