The seminar participants talked about how parents, coaches, and managers together shape the environment in which a young football player grows. Child development is a team game. And, as in any team game, the result depends not only on the player himself on the field, but also on the people who shape the environment around him. 

The meeting participants discussed two areas without which it is impossible to build a quality environment for the growth of a young football player:

• "Parents are partners in development." The role of the family in the sports and personal development of a child is often underestimated. Meanwhile, it is the parents who set the basic values, attitude to work, defeats and victories. The coach works with the child for several hours a week - the parents are there every day. When these two parties act in harmony, the child receives a holistic environment in which he can reveal his potential.

• "Managers are the foundation of the environment for a child's development." Without the coordinated work of managers and organizers, it is impossible to create conditions in which children, coaches and parents interact productively. Management in children's football is the foundation on which everything else rests.
   

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The seminar is only half of the Talantikos program

Such seminars are an integral part of the two-day event "Talantikos". The format is designed to combine theory and practice, adults and children, conversation and action:

• Day one is a seminar for parents, coaches, and managers, where approaches to child development are discussed.
• Day two is a festival where children play, compete, and enjoy football in a supportive atmosphere.

Such synergy is not accidental. What adults agree on at the seminar works the next day at the festival — in how parents react to children's play, how coaches communicate, how the environment itself is organized. The child sees football not as an isolated discipline, but as a space where all the adults around him play the same game with him.

Why is this important?

In children's sports, it's easy to focus on the results - goals scored, matches won, first places. But real development happens when there are adults around who see the child not as a future star, but as a growing person. Parents, coaches, managers - everyone has a role, and each of these roles is important.

"Talantikos" helps you learn how to play this team game together.