Partizan Youth School and Affiliates
For Partizan Belgrade affiliated club, see FK Teleoptik.The Partizan youth academy was founded in the 1950`s and the club is well known for its dedicated work with youngsters. The club claims that trough right coordination and organisation, it works not just in the development of football players, but also takes care of their growing and personality forming, while also teaching the sporting spirit, considering it as an investment for the future.
There are around 400 youngsters classifiyed by age categories. There are six selections, four compete at Serbian FA level, the U17, U16, U15 and U14, while the U13 and U12 compete in Belgrade FA level. The ones that still didn´t reached the U12 level do not participate in official competitions, but do play in tournaments and friendly matches. Although it is not the primary objective, Partizan is the club with most league titles and cup wins in youth competition in Serbia. The youth teams also participare in numerous tournaments around Europe and also organises an U17 international tournament. Besides, "Partizan School of Football" project established summer and winter camps in Zlatibor and Kopaonik in Serbia than in Montenegro, Jahorina (Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Maribor (Slovenia) and Australia.
Many of the best youth academy players move directly to Partizan senior side, or to the satellite club FK Teleoptik. The academy has produced numerous professional football players, such as Velibor Vasović, Zvezdan Čebinac, Miodrag Ješić, Zoran Dimitrijević, Borivoje Đorđević, Ivan Golac, Fahrudin Jusufi, Nikica Klinčarski, Ljubomir Mihajlović, Jovan Miladinović, Milan Jović, Momčilo Vukotić, Nenad Stojković, Vladimir Vermezović, Savo Milošević, Dragan Ćirić, Ivan Tomić, Veljko Paunović, Saša Ilić, Ivica Iliev, Igor Duljaj, Nikola Drinčić, Milan Smiljanić, Stefan Babović, Nikola Gulan, Miralem Sulejmani, Aleksandar Lazevski, Ivan Obradović, Matija Nastasić, Adem Ljajić, Nikola Aksentijević, Simon Vukčević and Stevan Jovetić.
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