PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT ELECTRIC WHEELCHAIR FOOTBALL IN RUSSIA

The article presents the results of a study of the problems of development of football on electric wheelchairs in Russia. Using the results of the survey and methods of mathematical statistics, it is shown that the main factors hindering the development of this sport are the following: lack of information about the new sport in the media and, as a consequence of this, lack of understanding about the existence of such a discipline as electric wheelchair football; lack of special equipment and inventory; insufficient number of sports grounds for training; insufficient number of trainers; lack of special methods for training athletes; insufficient number of competitions at various levels; impossibility of transporting athletes to training sites; insufficient amount of special scientific and methodological literature; expensive technical equipment; lack of targeted funding for the development of a new sports discipline. Based on the results of the study, the main directions for solving the identified problems were substantiated, ways of establishing and promising growth of a new sport for people with disabilities with musculoskeletal disorders and recommendations for the further positive development of this discipline were proposed.