The Grow Summit of UEFA on the increase of number of people involved in the football activities in the Eastern European countries takes place at the Hotel Biltmore, Tbilisi.
During the first day the Vice-president of Georgian Football Federation, Mr. Nika Jgarkava delivered the presentation on the strategy of Georgia’s football management body. Increase of number of people involved in the football activities is exactly one of the priorities for the Georgian Football Federation, as well as the popularization of the healthy life-style among the wider society. Mr. Nika Jgarkava introduced to the participants the view on the development of grass-root football and underlined the challenged in this field.
Today the Vice Prime-Minister, the Minister of Education and Science Mr. Alexander Jejelava delivered his welcoming remarks to the participants. He talked about importance of sport development and underlined that through joint effort and cooperation between the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs and the Georgian Football Federation will promote healthy life-style – that is the issue of paramount importance for our society.
The first day of the Summit was evaluated by the Head of UEFA GROW Program Mr. Noel Mooney: “This Summit is very important for UEFA and National Football Federations. For a long period of time it is the first event when the leaders of Football management bodies and government authorities from the Eastern European countries are sitting together to review the most important issue – how to involve more people in football, how to make them love this kind of sport. A lot has to be done; however the strategy described by Georgian Football Federation on grow of the grass-root football we found very impressive. Levan Kobiashvili and David Mujiri, together with their team really do a great job for football development. This is a great day as we seek the ways for increasing the grass-root football, and we do hope that after these two days the football in Eastern European Countries will be stronger and better”, said he.
Today the presentations were made by the president of the Football Federation of Sweden and the Secretary General of the President of the Football Federation of Ireland. They elaborated their views on developing the of grass-root football in their respective countries.
Two-day Summit, which first time is organized within such format, will end on March 2.
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