Last week the 6th edition of the EAFF Junior Camp took place in Warsaw
The European Amputee Football Federation returned to Poland! The training camp for juniors with amputation and limb defects took place last week in Warsaw at the ‘Legia football facility’ with the support of UEFA. The training camp has previously been a huge success including current European amputee football stars such as; Krystian Kapolon, Jacob Koch, Jamie Oakey, Thomas Atkinson (Add others players).
Junior Camps have been a key point in the calendar for young amputee football players in Europe for years. For the second time, the EAFF Junior Camp was held in Poland, this time on August 17-21, 2023. This was the return of the event to Warsaw after six years. The idea was launched in 2016 in Dublin (Ireland). The second edition was held in Warsaw (Poland), followed by Rome (Italy) and Walldorf (Germany), and after a two-year break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the initiative was reactivated a year ago in Tbilisi (Georgia).
See some of the pictures form the EAFF Junior Camp 2023 below!
About this project
The European Amputee Junior Camp is the EAFF’s flagship project aiming at creating opportunity to play football for children with one-side amputations or limb defects. This annual project was started in 2016 when the first Junior Camp was organized in Ireland. Next camps were orgnized consecutively in Ireland, Poland, Italy. EAFF covers costs of accomadation, meals and training facilities It also provides participants with training kits and organises a closing ceremony with medals for all.
EAFF Junior Camp annual project gave a direct impulse to develop national junior programmes in such countries like Poland, England, Scotland, Italy and most recently in Georgia. Within these local projects children after amputations and with limb effects gain opportunities to play amputee football on a regular basis. At present there are around 120 children under 16 playing amputee football in Europe.