"A lot has been done in Azerbaijan for the development of sports, but we have not achieved great success in team sports to date, President Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting with Azerbaijani national mini-football team members, who won the European Mini-Football Championship in Slovakia, Report informs.
The head of state noted stressed that this victory has a great value, and it is a great example for other sports: "Indeed, our chess players have twice been European champions, but chess is an individual sport, only our chess players, who played as a team, have achieved such great achievement. However, there has been no such victory in team sports."