Trainers are important for players.

Background This project was a response to the diagnosed needs of the trainers. Those needs emerged in 2018 and 2019 during meetings and realisation of another project (transnational cooperation) in Presov. The project allowed trainers to develop their competencies and broaden their football knowledge. That kind of development will allow them to raise the quality of their work with young athletes. Objectives The project aim is supporting young people’s trainers, so they can become even better support for young learning sportsmen. Specific goals: raising social and personal competencies of participants, deepening their football knowledge, trainers integration. Implementation 1. Seminars where the main topic will be „Supporting young people through the supporting of the trainers and people supporting training”.2. Job shadowing.3. Workshops for the trainers.4. Open space conference - summary. These activities were executed during: opening meeting for the leader from each partners country, 3 meetings in: Poland, Slovakia and Hungary for all participants of the project and open space conference summarizing the project implementation. Achievements All qualitative and quantitative results were met: improvement of the personal and training skills, improvement of the trainers environment integration, improvement of the skills, creating The Good Trainer Decalogue, project’s website, 3 organisations taking part, 21 participants, 3 workshops, 10 institutions received the Decalogue, 31 people participated in summarizing meeting, 21 participants improved their competencies.