The Finnish FA played host to Ireland, Poland and Croatia in a recent Grassroots Study Visit. This article details the presentation made by Kaj Björkqvist, President of VJS, a club based near Helsinki and looks at the set up within one of Finland's largest Grassroots Clubs.

Read more: UEFA Study Group Visit - Finland April 2012 (Part 4)

The Finnish FA played host to Ireland, Poland and Croatia for last week's Grassroots Study Visit. The first presentation made by the hosts was entitled "Finland – Youth Development" and was made by Marko Viitanen, FFA Youth Manager.

Read more: UEFA Study Group Visit - Finland April 2012 (Part 3)

This year the Croatian Football Federation celebrates 100th anniversary in honor of the day June 13th, 1912, when Dr. Milovan Zoričić was elected the chief of Football section within the limit of Croatian Sports Federation. Part 2 of our series of articles covering the UEFA Study Group visit to Finland looks at Grassroots Football in Croatia.

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The UEFA Study Group Scheme sees member associations visit one another to share knowledge, experience and best practice in coach education, youth, women's and grassroots football. Last week an FAI delegation, along with Poland and Croatia visited Finland under the Grassroots Football banner. In the first of a series of articles over the coming weeks we look at a brief summary of Grassroots Football in Poland.

Read more: UEFA Study Group Visit - Finland April 2012 (Part 1)

FAI Delegation visits Finland as part of UEFA Study Group Scheme

This week an FAI delegation comprising of staff and volunteers visited Finland as part of the UEFA Study Group Initiative. The topic of this visit was Grassroots Football and the countries taking part were Finland (hosts), Ireland, Poland and Croatia. FAI Regional Manager Tom O'Shea was part of the delegation and over the next couple of weeks Tom will post a series of informative Articles detailing the visit.

Read more: UEFA Study Group Visit - Finland April 2012