13TH SPORTS FAIR UNDER THE SLOGAN "SPORT IS LIFE - LIFE IS SPORT!" | PROMOTION OF TRUE VALUES, NOTABLE PARTICIPATION OF THE FA OF SERBIA

A weekend to remember for the youngest. The 13th Sports Fair under the slogan “Sport is life – life is sport”, a traditional manifestation organized by the Football Association of Serbia with the support of the Ministry for Sports, gathered representatives of 80 sports, and during the three days of the Fair visitors had the opportunity to try out different sports, to take part in workshops that include various educations, demonstrations, competition and interactive exercises. As every year, the Football Association of Serbia also had a notable participation, with its traditional programs aimed at the development of football.

With the Sports Fair the FA of Serbia started its the activities for the UEFA Grassroots Football Week, which takes place last week in September as part of the European Week of Sports. We were able to see pre-school girls demonstrating what they had learned from the UEFA Disney Playmakers program. In addition to the promotion of women’s football, development work for goalkeepers was presented, a football training ground for different game formats through which the youngest develop, while the fun part was with penalty kicks shown to the participants. Special attention was given to the promotion of amateur and veteran football. Volunteers of the Football Association of Serbia welcomed the visitors at the FSS stand, and Branko Radujko, the first operative of the football organization observed and greeted the numerous activities.

– I am grateful that I am attending this event on behalf of the Football Association of Serbia, and I congratulate the Sports Association of Serbia and of course the Ministry of Sports for organizing such an important event. It was nice to see this little fragment from the UEFA Disney Playmakers program, girls who love sports, love football… Our task and our obligation are to constantly improve and create opportunities for engaging in sports. These children are certainly the future, and I am happy that we were able to promote the activities of the Football Association of Serbia at such an event, which is not visible at first glance, but is very important. The Football Association of Serbia, after all, like the football community of the whole of Europe under the umbrella of UEFA, pays the same attention to both men’s and women’s football, as well as futsal, and it is everyone’s desire to direct as many children as possible to sports, football. Professional amateur, recreational, because all this means health, it means friendship, peace and all the other most important, greatest values ​​that we have an obligation to promote – said Branko Radujko, General Secretary of the FSS.