Team and special guest

CSKA together with the Boarding School of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation launched a new season of One Team, the EuroLeague clubs’ project.

Within the framework of the project, CSKA co-operates with the Boarding School for the second year in a row. The school trains the daughters of servicemen who serve in remote military garrisons, from incomplete and large families, children of deceased servicemen and participants of military operations awarded with state awards for military duty.

A delegation of the Army Men led by One Team coach Yakov Tarasov arrived in the school’s gym, where the girls hosted a friendly game with their peers from another school. They won with a big margin, but the question “Are you steal ready for the practice?” was cheerfully answered “Of course!” And the second part of the basketball evening started for the girls.

The united team of young cadettes had a special guest this time. 13-year-old Alina participated in the CSKA One Team event in December, having arrived with the delegation of the Special Olympics, and shocked the ambassadors Viktor Khryapa and Sergey Tarakanov with extraordinary skills for the usual (and unusual) child.

Alina was met with applause, but she was still certainly nervous. Maybe she was not able to surprise this time, but still the practice passed, as always, in one breath. The girls worked on their communications’ skills in a team, they went through some funny competitions. And this is just the beginning – soon the One Team series will go into regular rhythm, and Alina was invited to participate in the team’s training sessions until the end of the season.