Subotica is informed about Life Champions 2.0

On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, at the “Ivan Sarić” Technical School in Subotica, the first info day was held as part of the “Life Champions 2.0 – we are all champions” project.

The co-organizer was the Football Academy “SuTeam” in cooperation with the project consortium represented by Veljko Avramović, Vladimir Romčević, Predrag Počuča and Goran Knežević, all with the aim of presenting the ideas and plans of the concept of life champions, but also jointly determining the modalities for further cooperation and potential joining of children and coaches from this Subotica football academy to the project in the coming period.

Plans for the future were discussed with children, parents and coaches, as well as representatives of the professional community, with a special focus on the activities planned for this and the next year. Through the projection of video material from previous activities, those present could learn more about the very concept of sports-educational activities that were being implemented, and the significant fact that they are completely free for all participants.

The concept of “Life Champions 2.0 – we are all champions”, which has been developing since 2021, puts the coach as an educator at the center, bringing sport back to its basic postulates – that not everyone can become champion and top athlete, but that they all should and must become top people, life champions. This year, a special focus will be placed on the inclusion of girls, integration of the theme of gender equality into the educational part of the summer camp program, and the promotion of women’s sports and improvement of the position and visibility of girls/young womenin sports in general. It is currently being developed with the support of the European Commission and the UEFA Foundation for Children, and part of the partnership are actors from the sports, education and youth sectors from 9 countries.

In addition to work with coaches that should direct them to a new dimension of communication with the little ones, the consortium especially emphasizes the regional camps – each for 150-200 participants, noting that they are all free just to truly enable sports for all, and of very interesting format – in addition to sports activities, participants learn in an interesting way about numerous life topics, visit cultural and historical attractions and connect, showing how the future of the region should look like in practice. We would like to point out that over 2,000 children, 50 coaches and 200 parents have gone through the program so far.