Active sports collaborators in Nghe An
In recent years, the achievements of grassroots sports as well as high-performance sports have had no small contribution from a force of responsible, passionate, and dedicated sports collaborators.
Typical faces
A former diving athlete at Nghe An Sports Training and Competition Center, now a Physical Education teacher at Hung Chinh Secondary School, for many years, Mr. Ngo Van Doan has been one of the active collaborators of the Vinh city sports industry.
Since 2017, he has been invited to be a coach for the city's swimming team participating in age group swimming competitions.“Green track”Nghe An province every year and always won the first prize overall. Also under the coaching of Mr. Ngo Van Doan, at the mass swimming competitions of the Education and Training sector, the swimming team of Vinh city always ranked first in the number of participating students as well as the achievements.
“Although he is not a sports officer, every time there is a swimming activity organized by the city, Mr. Doan participates enthusiastically, whether as a coach or referee,” said Mr. Tran Anh Duc – Sports officer of the Center for Culture, Sports and Communications of Vinh city.
As a teacher at Thanh Tho Secondary School, Head of the Physical Education Department of the Department of Education and Training of Anh Son District, Mr. Vo Thanh Hung is a familiar face at tournaments of Phuc Son Commune as well as Anh Son District as a member of the organizing committee and referee. Besides, he is also a coach of Anh Son District teams participating in provincial tournaments in the sports of stick pushing and tug of war.
“Although my teaching job at school is quite busy, I always take advantage of my time, arrange my work and do my best to support sports activities when the commune and district need it,” Mr. Hung confided.
Not only in grassroots sports, but also in high-performance sports, there is a significant contribution from sports collaborators, who are the first to discover and introduce outstanding sports factors for sports levels and units to train and develop talents to participate in tournaments.
For example, in Yen Thanh district, Mr. Tran Minh Chau is an active collaborator who has discovered and introduced excellent players to Yen Thanh district's football teams to participate in the Nghe An Newspaper Cup Youth and Children's Football Tournament for the youth teams of SLNA Club and women's football clubs across the country.
In Hung Nguyen district, martial artist Tran Van Bien was also trusted and coordinated by the Provincial Sports Training and Competition Center in searching for and training Vovinam athletes, with outstanding faces such as Lang Van Huynh, Nguyen Hai Lam...
"Extended arm" of the Culture - Sports sector
Mr. Nguyen Huu Phuong - Head of the Department of Sports Management (Department of Culture and Sports) said that, fully aware of the important role of sports collaborators, the Department of Culture and Sports has paid great attention to developing this team: "Currently, each Center for Culture - Information and Communication only has 2-3 specialized sports officers; each commune, ward and town only has one cultural - sports officer who is in charge of many tasks, so if we only rely on this team, we cannot meet the requirements of developing the sports movement at the grassroots level. Therefore, encouraging and mobilizing the team of sports collaborators to participate is extremely necessary."
Up to now, the whole province has nearly 1,790 sports collaborators, considered as the "extended arms" of agencies and units working on culture and sports, playing an important and indispensable role in helping to develop local sports. They work in many different professions, such as physical education teachers at schools, former athletes, demobilized soldiers in the locality or simply people who love sports, have knowledge and the ability to convey to the people...
With their knowledge and experience, many sports collaborators have taken the lead in the socialization of physical education and sports, investing in facilities, and establishing sports clubs to serve the needs of the people. By attracting, mobilizing, establishing and guiding the establishment of many physical education and sports clubs, and directly training to serve the training needs of the people, physical education and sports collaborators have contributed to increasing the total number of physical education and sports clubs in the province to more than 920. Thereby, promoting the mass physical education and sports movement at the grassroots level to develop more and more, bringing the rate of people regularly practicing physical education and sports in the province to 35.8%, the rate of sports families to 25% by the end of 2023.
The role of the team of instructors and sports collaborators is also affirmed in district and provincial level sports tournaments, cultural and sports festivals of communes, wards and towns during holidays, Tet... when this force, together with cultural and sports officers, participates in organizing, operating or refereeing, contributing to improving the quality and professionalism of the tournaments. In addition, the team of sports collaborators actively searches, discovers, introduces and sometimes participates in training outstanding sports factors, contributing to the developmenthigh performance sports.
Realizing the importance of the sports collaborator team, every year, the Department of Culture and Sports organizes 1-2 professional training courses for grassroots sports officials and teachers of general schools, focusing on contents such as: Knowledge of state management in the field of physical education and sports; competition rules of some sports; methods of organizing competitions and practicing refereeing in crossbow shooting, stick pushing, tug of war, football, volleyball, badminton, etc.
It is worth noting that despite different circumstances, conditions, fields of activity and abilities, most sports collaborators come to work with passion and enthusiasm.
Up to now, there has not been any legal document that specifically regulates the regime for sports collaborators and the support funds that agencies and units doing sports work pay for this team when participating in activities are entirely based on agreement and are not much. However, the majority of the collaborators are always excited and enthusiastic in the activities. The development of local sports in particular and the province in general is partly thanks to them.
Mr. Nguyen Huu Phuong - Head of Sports Management Department (Department of Culture and Sports of Nghe An)
