Volleyball is an Olympic sport. Both male and female teams come to the site to play. Irina Kirillova is known as a player, and as a coach. She is one of the few volleyball players to have a reward for her loyalty to the game and sports longevity.
Gaming career
Some time ago, a conscious part of the country's population was engaged in physical education. The main task of the physical culture movement was to promote a healthy lifestyle. As a schoolgirl, Irina Kirillova passed the TRP standards and studied in the volleyball section. The girl was born on May 15, 1965 in an ordinary Soviet family. Parents lived in the famous city of Tula. My father worked at a defense plant. Mother taught literature and Russian at school. In high school, Irina began to study in the volleyball section at the Dynamo city sports club.
The tall girl stood out on the site among her peers. For a short time she took a leading position in the arrangement of players. In the early 80s, having received secondary education, Irina moved to Sverdlovsk and began playing for the local Uralochka team. After several tournaments, Kirillova was invited to the youth team of the Soviet Union. In 1982, the team won first place in the European Championship. Irina established herself as a bright team leader. To a large extent, thanks to her efforts, the Soviet team won the Olympics-88 in Seoul and the World Cup in Beijing-90.
Sports longevity
At the beginning of the 90s, Russian sport as a whole was in a state of crisis. Irina Kirillova after long hesitation agreed to sign a contract and went to work in Croatia. For almost sixteen years, an outstanding volleyball player played for the national team of this country. The presence on the site of the Russian athlete served as a powerful catalyst for the team. The Croatian team for two seasons has established itself in the highest echelon of European teams. In the spring of 2005, Kirillova returned to her homeland and began working as a coach and translator in the Russian women's team.
The joint work of Irina Kirillova and her husband Giovanni Caprara as a team mentor brought decent results. Russian volleyball players twice became bronze medalists of the European Championship. In 2006, they won the title of World Champions. But at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, they showed a frankly weak game. The family tandem left the coaching position of his own free will. However, Irina did not think to leave the big sport. In the same season, she was accepted into the Moscow Dynamo team. Colleagues did not expect such an act. An experienced volleyball player helped the team in the 2008 season to become the champion of the country.
