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More than a game

11. October 2012.

Source: RTS / Sixty small football players received medals for fair play in a tournament in Bujanovac. They were assessing their football skills with their peers from other clubs, Serbian and Albanian ones. Football was being promoted there, as well as coexistence in a multiethnic environment.

"I want to be as Deljban Tarifi, who left our club for “Skendi” in Tetovo" says Zijah Malići from FC “Trnovac".
Dragan Jordanović from FC "Petka the 11th" says that he likes football the most and knows how to play it better than other sports.
“There are a lot of gifted football players among young boys in Bujanovac,” the football coaches said. It's not just their work or their technique that is important, but their behavior, too.
The “Football Camp  and “Multiethnic Tournament” projects are funded by the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja.
Sasa Arsic, the coordinator of the "Football Camp" project, says that they want to promote football as a sport and show that coexistence in a multiethnic environment can be improved by playing collective games, while young football players received medals for fair play, which was the most important thing, and not the results achieved.

 After a decade of stagnation, football is redeveloping in Bujanovac. Now there are nine Serbian, Albanian and Roma clubs in the city and the surrounding villages.