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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Thank you St. Petersburg! You gave us a tremendous start of this year’s Trophy Tour. 26,700 visitors came to our tent on Palace Square.
For the first in the history of the tour, open hours of the tent were extended on both Saturday and Sunday to allow the fans who had been waiting over 4 hours in rain or sunshine to enter the exhibition. Main attractions were the international football stars: Luís Figo, our Official UniCredit Ambassador for the UEFA Champions League, who was accompanied by Cafu and local hero Dmitri Alenichev. Ultimate highlight however was the UEFA Champions League Trophy: 7,494 photos were made! So all the visitors can go to the microsite, download their photo and have a keepsake of the event.

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From Friday to Sunday (16 – 18 September) the unique Champions spirit will shine over the city. At the moment we are setting up everything for the spectacular UEFA Champions League Trophy Tour presented by UniCredit at Palace Square in St. Petersburg. On Friday Luís Figo, official UniCredit ambassador for the UEFA Champions League, accompanied by Cafu and Dmitri Alenichev, will bring the trophy by boat to open the gates at the Trophy Tour Village at 2.30 pm with an official ceremony. With this all visitors can start diving into the unique UEFA Champions League world by marveling at the legendary football memorabilia, reliving the greatest football scenes on a touch screen. Catch up with Figo, Cafu and Alenichev and have a good time.

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We are ready to go. Last week our Trophy Tour logistic trucks with loads of UEFA Champions League exhibition elements left for their adventurous trip to Saint Petersburg. Over 6.000 kilometers of highways, customs and so on. No way back! On Friday, 16.9. also the trophy will finally arrive in Russia. For the next six weeks it will travel from Saint Petersburg to Moscow, Kiev, Donetsk and Belgrade. At the tour stops you will get the chance to meet Luís Figo, Cafu, Davor Šuker and other football stars, to have a look at various legendary items of European football history and to take your personal picture with the UEFA Champions League Trophy!

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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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