The coach Salkičević informs us how one work day in the camps looks like:

“We do theoretical preparation before each training session. Players first charge the equipment and after that we have a meeting to explain to them what their daily tasks are. In this way it is easier to conduct everything on the pitch. As far as preparation is concerned, we are working on a program that we received from colleagues from UEFA, which means that we use the contents and exercises listed in that program.”

As someone who works at the same time in the club, Vernes Salkičević is certainly competent to evaluate whether the same program can be implemented in clubs:

“It depends on each club. Somewhere it is implemented, somewhere close to it, but there are clubs that do not work at all in this way. All of it depends on the rank of the club, so that at these gatherings, there are some disadvantages at certain players coming from those teams.”

This expert believes that there are talented young players in Bosnia and Herzegovina:

“We can say with certainty that we have talented children, which is shown by the results of our youth teams. This project also offers a head coach of the U-15 team some kind of pre-selection. We create a base; we have an insight into the quality and potential of these children, who come with the desire to put on a jersey with the state coat of arms.”

Denis Malešević is also one of the coaches who works on the implementation of this program and believes that it is possible to find the balance between theory and practice:

“It is not difficult when children listen, as it is a case with most of them in the camp. We make a good work analysis before a training session, the children are football intelligent, and we apply that in practice and on the field very easy. We have no problem, that is, it is easier for us to transfer to the field everything what we did here in theory.”

Malešević points out that the experiences, gained in the camp, are very useful, not only for players, but also for coaches:

“Of course, everything we learn here, both the camp attendees and the coaches, in addition to the education we received in our educational centre, we transfer to the clubs we work in.”

Salkičević and Malešević agree that these camps mean a lot for youth teams’ head coaches, and that this project will surely have positive effects in the long run:

“The head coach of the U-15 team, Zoran Erbez, now has a much clearer picture of all the participants even a year before creation of the U-15 team. This year, players born in 2003 are playing for that national team. It is important to point out that we had been selecting these players last year, and it is much easier for the head coach and the technical staff of the U-15 team to reach the best ones. This is just the first filter, because after four camps we will have the fifth one, the final, which will crystallise the children for the national team. After that, from the U-15 team, the boys will go on; they will have a passage to the U-17, U-19 and U-21 team. I hope this project will last and that it will be helpful to all head coaches in selecting players”, says Denis Malešević.