THE HISTORY OF WOMEN FOOTBALL DEVELOPMENT IN CHUVASHIA
In the course of studying the history of physical culture and sport development in the Chuvash Republic, we conducted the analysis of the origin and development of women's football in the territory of Chuvashia. The study showed that development of women's football began in 1987 in connection with formation of the first women's football team "Energy", which was later renamed "Volzhanka". Beginning with 1990 this team played in the major league at the Championships of Russia and the USSR. The best players of "Volzhanka" N.P. Bochkareva, M.V. Eremina, E.A. Konyakova, E.M. Lisacheva became prize-winners, and L.I. Kapitonova became the champion of Russia. A great tribute in formation and development of the women's team "Volzhanka" belongs to its coaches V. Semenov, V. Evlampyev, M. Parshin, V. Nikolaev who at various times provided leadership to the team which was famous all over the country. The article details the development stages of the indicated women's football team, which experienced ups and downs during its career, the statistics of performances and competitions are given in a chronological order. In 2002, the team was disbanded. The key reasons that resulted in disintegration of the team "Volzhanka" and hindering the development of women's football in Chuvashia are identified. The main causes were insufficiency of material and technical basis and poor funding. Unfortunately, at present, a single women's football team in the Chuvash Republic does not exist, this does not mean, however, that women's football in the Republic is absent: school, University women's teams as well as teams of pensioners and district football teams continue functioning and actively show themselves in women's football.