The Football Federation of Macedonia has organized an event as part of the action week for awareness for the needs of the disabled persons. The event took place in the House of Football in Skopje and representatives of the First Macedonian League clubs, the National Association for people with physical disability of Macedonia - MOBILNOST and the Macedonian Olympic Committee took part.

The event was opened by greetings of the President of the Football Federation of Macedonia Mr. Ilcho Gjorgjioski and the General Secretary, Mr. Filip Popovski.

- I would like to welcome you on behalf of the Football Federation of Macedonia. It is always our pleasure to be in company with great former athletes, with our friends from MOBILNOST and our dear colleagues from the Macedonian Olympic Committee. This cooperation opens a new door of the inter-institutional, but also a personal cooperation between us and the community of people with physical disabilities in our country. We are becoming aware of their needs, and also of our opportunities to answer those needs - stated Ilcho Gjorgjioski, President of FFM.

The General Secretary of the Federation, Filip Popovski stated that FFM is prepared to offer any type of support for creating equal opportunities for everyone involved in the game of football.

- The Football Federation of Macedonia is prepared to give all kind of support for creating equal opportunities for everyone in the world of football, regardless to their gender, religion, nationality or their physical abilities. In accordance to our opportunities we will give our best to implement the inclusion of the people with physical disabilities on the sport fields across Macedonia on multiple levels, starting with infrastructure improvements at the stadiums, education and activities inside the federation and in the football clubs. It's FFMs mission to attract, govern and nourish the differences, in order to maintain the game of football and the joy that it brings, equally to everyone - said the General Secretary of FFM, Filip Popovski.

Mrs. Irena Bakrevska Miloshevska from the Football Federation of Macedonia also had a presentation where she explained the responsibilities of the  DISABILITY OFFICER (club representative that is responsible to grant access to the stadium for the people with disabilities).

- The sport activities is engaging for the people with disabilities and they change their emotional conditions to the fullest extent, they tend to put their disability in a second plan, appear to be more self confident and have better endurance. The desire for sport victory develops a collective spirit and friendship. The athletes get used to victory and defeat at the same time. This is very important in the process of rehabilitation that is often connected to big psychological efforts that the individual is not able to overcome quickly. Through involvement in sport we get confident with our abilities, stated Branimir Jovanovski from MOBILNOST in his presentation.

After the workshop a football match was played between the team of MOBILNOST and the Macedonian Olympic Committee.http://ffm.mk/media/inline/2016/04/CC8a8940.JPG  

The match ended with a 5-5 draw.