Once again, the project Open Fun Football Schools has inspired numerous kids – boys and girls alike – with two fantastic sporting events that took place in Vidin and Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, last month.

On October 1^st, children aged between 7 and 12 took part in one of these events in the famous Bulgarian “Georgi Benkovski Stadium” in Vidin. Over 170 enthused boys and girls enjoyed the organised football tournaments on the pitch while their grateful parents came to watch them there.

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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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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.