Mini Champions League in the divided town of Mostar

Following last year´s successful cooperation, local UniCredit Bank branch and CCPA Open Fun Football Schools Bosnia and Herzegovina, joined forces togehter again, to make kids smile on another UEFA Champions League finals day.
Last year, Sarajevo wore colors of Manchester and Barcelona, when over 400 girls and boys played together, on stations down Vilsonovo lane.This year, Mostar hosted little Chelsea and Bayern players, on a main city road, on twelve stations and five workshops. 400 kids, age 6-12, and 100 more, kindergarten football lovers, on fun workshops, played together and celebrated wonderful game of football.
Kids came form clubs and elementary schools from Mostar, Sarajevo, Pale and Istocno Sarajevo. Their friends form SOS Children Villages joinded them, as well as friends from Mostar´s institutions for children with special needs. CCPA´s educated staff and coaches worked with them, making sure, smiles never go off their faces.
Smiles for kids, games,t-shirts and gifts were provided by our sponsors this year as well : UniCredit Bank – general sponsor, UniCredit Leasing, Alfaterm, Stanic, Mepas Mall, Eurosan, Suton, Europaiper Hercegtisak, Microsoft, and help in organization and realization of a rich program was given by FA BH, FA of Hercegovacko-neretvanski Kanton, British Council and SOS Children villages, and as well as last year, our media partners RSG and RSG1 talked about us!
Special cooperation established between Open Fun Football Schools and departments for Police work in community in many Police stations around country, through the project ´Sport + School + Police´ , was shown on a special station ´Police – a friend of mine´, where our friends from Mostar police worked with children on educational games concerning the traffic safety, and talked to them about issues important for their happy childhood.
This year again, we spent a wonderful, sunny day playing football and having fun, taking care of Fair Play, and we waited for the UEFA Champions League final match, we watched a game, cheered for a favorite team and with Respect to the other one. The winner was Chelsea, but on our Mini Champions League we were all winners, celebrating the beauty of football all togehter!