The organizers of this project were the Ukrainian Football Association, the Charitable Foundation "Development of Football of Ukraine", the Cherkasy Regional Football Association and the Shpola community, and the participants of the fun football holiday were students from four secondary educational institutions in the city of Shpola.

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Also, thanks to synergy with the project of the International Charitable Fund Parimatch Foundation "Yes, I Can!", a component of inclusive classes was introduced into the format of the football festival.

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Before the festival began, the participants were greeted by the representative of the city council Oksana Khapatko, the deputy head of the Cherkasy Regional Football Association Petro Yevych, the head of the regional branch of the Committee on Physical Education and Sports of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Antonina Saprykina, as well as the national coordinator of social projects from the UAF Yevheniy Stolitenko. 

The festival began with a fun warm-up, led by coach Oksana Prybluda.

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Later, the children went through 12 sports stations, during which they performed interesting exercises, participated in games, intellectual competitions, and communicated with psychologists and employees of the National Police.

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Deputy Chairman of the CHOAF Petro Yevych noted: "How nice it is to look at the faces of children, with what enthusiasm they perform the exercises shown to them by the coaches, mastering the techniques! It is also important that among the participants there are many girls and children from families of displaced persons from the ATO zone. Such events are very important from the point of view of popularizing football and attracting children to sports, and they should be held as often as possible."

After the festival, each participant, and there were over 100 of them, received a memorable gift in the form of a T-shirt with the project logo and good mood, and schools received sets of soccer balls and equipment necessary for soccer classes.

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The organizers expressed their gratitude to local volunteers and their leader Vitaliy Honcharenko, representatives of the Shpolyansk AH, and the management of the LNZ football club for their assistance in holding the festival.

We remind you that for the second year in a row, the format of the "Open Football Lessons" has been adapted to the norms of the anti-epidemic regime and social distancing.

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