Mersin Metropolitan Municipality offers young people the opportunity to discover their talents and develop their sports skills with basketball courses that continue in summer and winter. Thanks to this course, young people also have the opportunity to socialize with their friends during the summer period when schools are closed.
MERSIN (IGFA) – Basketball Courses, which continue continuously in summer and winter months under the Metropolitan Municipality Youth and Sports Services Department, are a frequent destination for young people, especially in summer. Thanks to the courses given by Metropolitan Municipality Basketball Coaches at Namık Kemal Secondary School and Servet Tazegül Sports Hall, new talents are discovered and young people are one step closer to their dreams.
Students show great interest in the basketball course given by the Metropolitan Municipality free of charge. The Metropolitan Municipality, which is always by the side of young people with big dreams, is always a supporter of young people, some of whom want to play in the NBA, and some who want to enter the A Team.
“We have a large turnout. This number never goes down.”
Hakan Talaslıoğlu, who works as a basketball coach at the Metropolitan Municipality Youth and Sports Services Department, “We provide basic training in basketball here. These basic trainings are; double, triple, quadruple games such as dribbling, passing, types of passes, layups and so on. From time to time we go up to 5 to 5 matches. We give our incoming children a complete basic basketball training and then send them back as trained from here. Then we get our new students again. The same process starts over again. Our courses continue uninterrupted in summer and winter. We have a large attendance. This number never decreases, it continues to increase. Our work continues 3 days a week during the summer periods. We also work at Servet Tazegül Sports Hall on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. In Namık Kemal, we have work on Mondays and Wednesdays. Our work continues uninterruptedly, 5 days a week in total.” said.
“We became a family here”
Coach Talaslıoğlu also mentioned that the students were very happy in the course, “We became a family here with them. As teachers, we have to teach first, we need to make them love it so they have to come here. Even if you can’t do them first; We connect them here by communicating like ‘you are doing it, it will be fine’. There are those who do not go on holiday in the summer and stay here. There are those who insist on their families and want to come here. Because we don’t just look at our children as basketball players, we look at them as individuals. We see them as our own children. We teach them how to act in public as well as basketball. We instill concepts such as courage and self-confidence. In addition, we sometimes talk about individual self-care, sometimes we talk about breakfast habits, how they should be fed, what time they need to sleep. We try to help them in many ways” he said.
“I want to play in the NBA in the future”
Kayra Zorlular, 12, one of the students who benefited from the basketball course, said that she has been coming for 2 years. “I enjoy playing matches and being with my friends. Coaches treat us very well, they take great care of us. For example, when there is something that I do not understand, I can go and ask it easily. It’s nice to be here when the schools are closed. Actually, because I love to do it, I have no difficulty in coming. For example, being early in the morning is not a problem for me. I played tennis for 3 years and ballet for 2 years, but I felt that I was more inclined to basketball. That’s why I keep playing basketball. I actually want to play in the NBA in the future. But I also want to study law. So I want to evaluate both together. For example, when I go to university, I want to go to the sports department and play basketball there.” used his statements.
“I want to improve myself in terms of basketball and move on to the A Team”
Yaren Ergül, who has been attending the Metropolitan Basketball Course for 2 years, also said: “Before I came here, I was playing for a team. I had to take a break when the club closed. When I came here, I closed myself, I improved myself, we played our matches. The workouts are going very well. I am also very good with coaches and friends. It is a very good thing that we develop ourselves here, that it is free and so on. I did not stop training and now I am very happy. Good thing I continue. I want to improve myself in terms of basketball and move to the A Team, and I want to do this job when I grow up.” used his words.
15-year-old Ahmet Efe Dalan, on the other hand, “I have been here for a year and a half and the education here is very good. It’s also free. It’s really nice that they can accommodate everyone’s request like this. I came here using this opportunity. I’ve been here for a year and a half. Here you can socialize, improve yourself in basketball, and go to better and better teams. Here I play matches, have fun, and make new friends. That’s better than anything” said.
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