Project
Creating Life Champions 2023/24
Revitalization of the educational and pedagogic role of sport (football, in this specific case) using influence that football trainers have on children and youth.
THE CONCEPT OF A SYMBOLIC NAME
„Creating the life champions 2023/24“
conducted by partners from three different sectors
Local football clubs and football camps
By including 40 football coaches of younger categories as a direct target group
Youth organizations
Which will conduct research and expert work on the development of training modules
Faculties of Sports and Physical Education
Which will develop an educational model for working with sports coaches
UEFA Foundation for Children’s support is continuing in 2024
The best possible news have arrived today, on the International Children's Day, in Serbia -…
Life champions sum up their impressions toward 2024
After presentation of the concept of life champions at the camps in Palić, Divčibare and…
We continue to expand the Life Champions family
Consortium representatives Božo Marić and Siniša Ćerketa, led by the coordinator of the project "Creating…
We are proudly announcing
The extremely exhaustive and studious research on the pedagogical and educational role of football coaches,…
With Goran Pandev in Strumica
Dynamic partnership with the Academy Pandev as part of the concept “Creating Life Champions" has…
With the representative of the UEFA Foundation for Children on Zlatibor
After a series of activities carried out on the project "Creating Life Champions", our team…
Project ambassadors
The celebrated football team members, the players who led and are leading the football teams of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Macedonia with the captain's armband, are the ambassadors of the project, which we are extremely proud of
Aleksandar Mitrovic
Best-scorer of the Serbian national
football team
Edin Dzeko
Captain of the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina and UNICEF ambassador
Goran Pandev
Captain of the football team of Northern Macedonia
Friends of the project
Milan Borjan
Goalkeeper and captain of FC Red Star
Sasa Zdjelar
Representative of Serbia and player of FC Partizan
Nemanja Milunovic
Representative of Serbia and player of FC Red Star
Nemanja Mitrovic
Representative of Slovenia and player of FC Maribor
Milan Rodic
Representative of Serbia and player of FC Red Star
Branko Jovicic
FC Lask Linc
Zoran Tosic
Celebrated football representative of Serbia and player of FC Tobol, Kazakhstan
Bosko Jankovic
Former football representative of Serbia and Montenegro
Milan Bisevac
Former football representative of Serbia and Montenegro
Dejan Damjanovic
FC Kitchee football player from China
Nikola Gulan
FC Radnicki Belgrade
Aleksandar Jovicic
Football player of BIH national team and Gorica
Aleksandar Trajkovski
Deputy captain of North Macedonia national team and player of Al-Fayha FC
Junior Martinsson Ngouali
Representative of Serbia and player of Sarpsborg 08
Loïs Diony
Football player of Angers SCO
Luis Ibáñez
Football player of Grafičar
Predrag Rajkovic
First goalkeeper of Serbia national team and player of Reims France
Nataša Andonova
Captain of the women's football team of Northern Macedonia
Nemanja Matić
Football player of A.S. Roma
El Fardou Ben
Football player of APOEL Nicosia
A word from the coach
Travel. Hang out. Train. Learn from your peers and coaches. Make the most of the opportunity through the project "Together for a healthier and safer community". So great support for a great team and a great idea.
Savo Milosevic
Celebrated football representative
of Serbia and Montenegro
Creating the life champions
through numbers
4
Sectors
16
Partners involved
40
Trainers of younger categories
2000+
Children and youth involved
during educational-sport activities
50
Stakeholders gathered
for the Final conference
5 milion
People informed through
extensive media campaign
We continue to develop and test a new methodology of work in the field of sports, focusing on coaches as pedagogues and educators, whose role is not only to create top athletes, but above all - top people.
Aleksandra Knezevic
Program Director of Development Center for Youth
and project coordinator
The project is implemented within the ERASMUS + program of the European Union in the field of sports, the coordinator is the Development Center for Youth from Belgrade, and the consortium consists of partners from the sports, youth and education sectors from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey.
