Friday, 14.10., 6 o’clock, the Trophy Tour Village is in its last preparations to host fans, journalists and football legends to join the UEFA Champions League Trophy.

At the same time in south Serbia six 8 year old footballers from Prokuplje are too excited to sleep. They are jumping into the van that will take them to the final tournament of Open Fun Football Schools organized by UniCredit Bank Serbia in cooperation with UniCredit Foundation. The tournament will take place in Kalemegdan Park, next to the UEFA Champions League Trophy Tour Village in Belgrade.

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In more than 40 cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Open Fun Football Schools (OFFS) inspired more than 3.200 boys and girls and brought them together to play football. For the village Veliki Radić, a dream came true, as Anders Levinson, founder of the project, learned from Mr. Svetozar Pudarić, Vice president of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the small and poor returnee village, at the slopes of Grmeč Mountain, a region where life is truly hard, couple of dozen children were always dreaming of playing football with a real football and real goals. So far, these kids went to join the OFFS in Bosanska Krupa but the desire to continue playing never stopped when they were back home. This season a dream came true. Old, wooden and broken goals were replaced by new ones.

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Together with 200 children from the towns of Backa Palanka and Odzaci, Dejana Backo had a lot of joy and fun at the Open Fun Football Schools (OFFS) from 22 – 26 August. Dejana is a 15 year old girl born without upper extremities but with an incredible talent: with her left foot she does amazing paintings – so skilful that today she is studying at the secondary school of art in Novi Sad and represents Serbia in the world association of artists with disabilities.
First time the OFFS met Dejana was on television when Dejana told the journalist about her biggest desire: to get the chance of playing football with her peers.
At the OFFS Dejana’s dedication and irresistible smile made it easy for her to become part of the game. It was fantastic to see how the children without disabilities changed their attitudes towards Dejana during the five days. The first day you could see some children discretely looking at Dejana and her handicap. At the end she was accepted as one like all the others.

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Do you remember our initiative MAKE A KID SMILE? You gave us thousands of smiles, therefore UniCredit has donated 200.000 Euro to the Open Fun Football Schools. The donation supports projects of fun, mutual respect, friendship and peace for 22 000 children in 11 European countries.

Last week (16th – 20th Aug.) the Croatian town of Lepoglava hosted a fascinating five day event. 220 boys and girls from Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, Germany, Serbia and Slovenia had a wonderful time together playing the Open Fun Football Schools program in the morning, cultural excursions in the afternoons, discothèque and other social activities in the evening.

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Watch Luís Figo, the Official UniCredit Ambassador for the UEFA Champions League,  sending his personal thank you to everybody who participated in the MAKE A KID SMILE campaign. Together with Luís Figo we asked users all over the world to upload their smile to the KidSmile-Me Arena. In return we donated 200.000 Euro for all the smiles to the „Open Fun Football Schools“, a humanitarian project using joyful games and the pedagogical “fun-football-concept” as a tool to promote democracy, peace, stability and social cohesion in divided societies.

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Find out more about the this project, called “Open Fun Football Schools”, from its founder Anders Levinsen. Through joyful games and the pedagogical “fun-football-concept” this project  promotes democracy, peace, stability and social cohesion in divided societies. It targets boys and girls from 7 to 12 years old, coming together for five days and joining grassroots football and other sports. Watch Anders Levinson telling you about the project and sending his thank you to everybody who participated in the MAKE A KID SMILE campaign.