The regular training cycle of the UEFA Playmakers project in one of the two UEFA Playmakers centers on Lviv Oblast – in Novoyavorivske. Training sessions for the Ukrainian Football Association and Lviv Football Association take place at School No. 2 and the girls' football club "Yantarochka," conducted by the project trainers Natalia Yastremska and Mykhailo Kuchma.

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We quote Natalia Yastremska: "The girls-players visit the training sessions with enthusiasm and learn the basics of football. For children, these sessions are an active rest and fun sports adventures. Girls have fun, improve new skills, make new friends, increase their physical fitness – speed, agility, balance, coordination, enhance team spirit.

Thanks to the UEFA PLAYMAKERS program and Disney, girls across Ukraine fell in love with playing football. Trainers and volunteers encourage and motivate them to engage in sports. We feel that at training sessions, children develop courage, bravery, leadership qualities, make new friends, show kindness, politeness, hospitality, and drive away negative emotions.

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Parents and children express great gratitude to the Ukrainian Football Association, including for the coloring books: girls happily bring their fantasies about the main heroes of the cartoons to the training sessions. Life is colored in bright colors at trainings, which adds more joyful emotions that are so needed in our difficult times.

Fun, friends, and football – all came together at the training sessions, and children constantly want to be on the move. And movement – it's life».

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The goals of the UEFA Playmakers program, implemented by the Ukrainian Football Association:

• to familiarize girls with football, creating an environment focused on fun, friends, and football;
• to introduce a new individualized coaching approach that uses imagination (inspired by Disney stories and characters) as a tool for training and acquiring football playing skills;
• to improve life skills of girls, basic movement skills, and teach the basics of football to foster lifelong love for the sport.