05.09.2011.

STARS INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF INA YOUTH SPORTS GAMES

Forth week of INA Youth Sports Games is always dedicated for children and young people from the region. Stars International days gather the children to socialize through sports. This year Split has hosted around 300 children from Macedonia, Hungary, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. They have played in 10 sports: soccer, streetball, beach volleyball, volleyball, handball, tennis, ping - pong, badminton, chess, and dodgeball.

Besides sports, children enjoyed spending time at beaches and meeting new friends from different country. Also, they had opportunity to learn about the history of Split and see other Croatian towns such as Dubrovnik and Trogir.

Participants from other countries were coming at the invitation of the organizer. For now, organizers give priority to children and young people of lower economic status and students who have achieved good academic results. In the long term, the project with aim of internationalization is a positive step forward of Croatia efforts to join the European Union. It is shows our willingness to turn to the future whose potential lies in the young people of new and modern Europe.

We hope that all of the guest countries one day will be the host of this great sports event - and then it would not be only the most beautiful sport story in Croatia but also in Europe.

INA Youth Sports Games in Croatia

Throughout these 15 years the Games have undergone a large number of people who contributed to this event, but also over 330 000 children and young who are the best recommendation and proof of the quality of our work. Children and young people have passed and went, but the new Sports Games for generations of young people have remained faithful to the original task - to offer children a fun summer filled with sports activities through the already well-known slogan 'Live life without drugs because drugs take life.  This year on INA Youth Sports Games played about 80.000 children and young. The Games are being held for first time in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with 11.000 children.