Original Puma football shirt Fuoriclasse Cup Italy 1990

Football at school. The collaboration between the FIGC – Youth and Scholastic Sector and the School is consolidated over time with a view to serving young people, teachers and parents.

In 1976, football was included for the first time in the sports programs envisaged by the Ministry of Public Education and the Commission for school activities was set up, which is headed by the 100 Regional and Provincial Delegates of School Activities, with the task of promoting soccer at school. "La Gazzetta dello Sport" will headline: "Historical: football enters the school". In previous years, a first step had taken place in 1965, when the Ministry of Public Education had decided to organize a tournament among the young people of national boarding schools with the coordination of the SGS Regional Committees, but then the activity had not materialised.

Following this evolution, which over the years has also strengthened through an intense technical-didactic activity, aimed at the training of elementary school teachers and those of physical education as indicated by the "Conference on youth football activity" (Florence, 1983), in In the 1987-88 season, the FIGC inextricably linked its identity to the School, changing the name of the structure that operates on grassroots football to "Youth and School Sector". In addition to a new identity, ties with the Ministry of Education, with the ISEFs and with the Offices of the Coordinators of Physical and Sports Education are strengthened. On the other hand, the "Football-oriented motor activity project" dates back to 1992, another step that brings schools and football closer together, seen as an educational and socializing tool.

In 1996, the "Sport for All Project" encouraged schools and sports clubs to carry out joint activities in the didactic-methodological field, stipulating agreements with each other, which allow all students to practice pre-sports and sports activities in the school, with the decisive collaboration of the technicians of the football clubs; a shared educational plan in which families are also involved. In two years, 322 Conventions were signed, signed and agreed upon by the Headmaster and the President of the Company, 209 meetings were organized between families, coaches, teachers and Headmasters to plan the activities to be carried out under the agreement.

The following year, we are in 1997, "Stradacalciando" was born, an initiative to bring football back to city squares by involving elementary school boys and girls. A football played on the street, marking the goals with what is available and counting the steps to delimit the spaces. Between 1999 and 2001, nearly 100,000 children returned to play in city spaces. In these years, the operational notebook for children from 3 to 7 years old "UN DUE TRE PALLA" was also produced, published by GIUNTI PROGETTI EDUCATIVI.

Thus we arrive at the "Charter of Children's Rights and Adults' Duties" (2001), a document that addresses parents, sports and school managers, teachers, sports educators and athletes and indicates a didactic approach that takes take into account the needs of the children. A "manifesto" drawn up with the patronage of Unicef, Telefono Azzurro and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies.