President: "To date, we have not achieved great success in team sports"

"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."