Dinamo Youth Academy has been selected by the European Club Association, along with 5 other top European football schools (those of Barcelona, Arsenal, Ajax Amsterdam, Sporting and Inter Milan), to participate in the European football schools valorization program.

Dinamo Youth Academy had some lofty guests recently: a delegation from the most powerful club organization in Europe, the ECA - European Club Association. They brought us great news, that are also the culmination of all the hard work Dinamo Youth Academy has done over the years: we have been selected, along with the youth academies of Barcelona, Arsenal, Ajax, Sporting  Lisbon (which brought up C. Ronaldo) and Inter Milan to participate in the European football schools valorization program. Thus we find ourselves in the most prestigious company possible!

Along with the delegation from ECA, the youth academy was visited by five USA national team representatives as well. For all of them a detailed presentation of the workings of the school was presented by the youth academy director Romeo Jozak with his assistants. During the presentation a high quality debate ensued, and in the end our honored guests were stunned by the quality and expertise of the presented information. After the presentation two showcase training sessions were held by U19 coach Dinko Jelicic and the U-8 coach Miro Davidovic.

Having visited Inter Milan football school just before coming to Dinamo, the ECA delegation was very surprised that the quality of work, the expertise of our coaches and the modern methods applied - and indeed the whole youth academy - were on the same level with Inter Milan, despite Dinamo's Youth Academy budget being considerably more modest.

This great recognition also represents a big motivation for Dinamo Youth Academy to continue with the great work and to keep on improving in every aspect, which have already been brought to the highest European level by the director of Dinamo Youth Academy Romeo Jozak. 

"Of course it is a great honor and privilege to be in such valued company of European football giants. We have clearly sparked the interest of Europe, which comes as no surprise considering the amount of top level players we have been able to produce in the last few years, and the fact that two of the Europe's biggest talents in their age groups - Mateo Kovacic (sought by Arsenal) and Alen Halilovic (sought by Real Madrid) have come from our academy. Apart from operating on the highest level of quality and giving our best each and every day, in the last 5 years we have produced players that have achived combined transfers for about 80 million dollars. Players like Luka Modric, Eduardo Da Silva, Vedran Corluka, Niko Kranjcar, Dejan Lovren etc.  It goes without saying that we are very proud to be where we are now, right along side the best. And now that we heave reached the top, we plan to stay there as well."