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FUNBALL grand finale held in Zagreb
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Article Sun, Dec 22 2019
Zagreb, Croatia, December 22, 2019. The final stage of the Zagreb Volleyball Association’s project “New Training Programme: Building Solid and Healthy FUNDamentals for Volleyball in the Early Age (6-9) Group – FUNBALL”, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Sport Programme of the European Union, took place on Saturday at the Bojan Stranić Volleyball Hall in the Croatian capital.
For the past two years, the Zagreb Volleyball Association and its partners – i.e. the Faculty of Kinesiology of the University of Zagreb, HAOK Mladost, OD Šempeter (SLO), Scuola di pallavolo Anderlini Soc. Coop. Sociale SD (ITA), VK Ekonóm SPU Nitra (SVK) and Avignon Volley-Ball (FRA) – worked together in order to develop a programme specifically designed for Volleyball beginners. These are primarily children aged 6-7 and 8-9.
The first part of the programme included researching and data gathering about already existing such programmes across the globe. The partners found out that none of the existing programmes for children of that specific age includes written material made available at the operational level, and specifically for individual training. The intellectual output of this project will offer exactly that. An interactive manual will allow coaches quick access to training units and will have a textual and multimedia summary of a specific exercise in one document. This manual will be of great help to coaches working with these young age categories, coaches dealing with beginners, physical education teachers, but also for those working with older and more experienced teams.
The project manager, Mr Hrvoje Borovina, together with the professor of the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb, Tomislav Đurković, presented to coaches and teachers all of the activities performed over the last couple of years. These include the research done at the very beginning of the project, through the development of the training concept, to gathering feedback on the success of the project from coaches and children involved in the programme.
For the past two years, the Zagreb Volleyball Association and its partners – i.e. the Faculty of Kinesiology of the University of Zagreb, HAOK Mladost, OD Šempeter (SLO), Scuola di pallavolo Anderlini Soc. Coop. Sociale SD (ITA), VK Ekonóm SPU Nitra (SVK) and Avignon Volley-Ball (FRA) – worked together in order to develop a programme specifically designed for Volleyball beginners. These are primarily children aged 6-7 and 8-9.
The first part of the programme included researching and data gathering about already existing such programmes across the globe. The partners found out that none of the existing programmes for children of that specific age includes written material made available at the operational level, and specifically for individual training. The intellectual output of this project will offer exactly that. An interactive manual will allow coaches quick access to training units and will have a textual and multimedia summary of a specific exercise in one document. This manual will be of great help to coaches working with these young age categories, coaches dealing with beginners, physical education teachers, but also for those working with older and more experienced teams.
The project manager, Mr Hrvoje Borovina, together with the professor of the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb, Tomislav Đurković, presented to coaches and teachers all of the activities performed over the last couple of years. These include the research done at the very beginning of the project, through the development of the training concept, to gathering feedback on the success of the project from coaches and children involved in the programme.