Acting president Pedro MOURA visited Germany for ETTU Suppliers Pool talks

With existing events with long lasting tradition and forthcoming new projects in sights ETTU preparations for next year are in full swing. Strong support from the ETTU Suppliers Pool is the backbone of success behind all ETTU events and projects and to ensure further cooperation and future development during this week Acting president Pedro MOURA visited some of the members of ETTU Suppliers Pool and also table tennis brands that could possible join our family. Accompanied by the ETTU Project Manager Galia DVORAK Acting President visited Butterfly in Dusseldorf Victas in Bremen and Contra/Gewo in Hamburg.

“This was the beginning of several visits we will do to all the table tennis brands that have been and fortunately will be working close with ETTU for the European table tennis. Although some of them are not yet ETTU Suppliers Pool members our wish is that all of them are part of the ETTU family in the near future being our partners in our new projects and future events. With all of them we wish to work and we all of them we wish to grow. We were presenting our projects for the future and I bring a very positive feedback as I feel they all want to be part of the development of our sport in Europe. I will be back in Germany next week to continue the visits ” said Acting President MOURA.

In Dusseldorf ETTU representatives met with SFO of Butterfly Europe Hajo NOLTEN Hiroshi KIMURA and FANG Wei. In Bremen Victas General Manager Peter FRANZ welcomed the guests whilst in Hamburg Contra/Gewo company were represented in talks by Wolfgang SOHNS Olaf BAUER Pedro DE SOUSA and Wiebke SOHNS.

Beside long running events like European Championships Champions League Europe Top 16 Cup Europe Under 21 Championships Europe Cup for clubs European Youth Championships Europe Youth Top 10 ETTU launched Europe Trophy for clubs two years ago and added two more events for young players next year. This year we will have European Under 13 Championships and European Youth Series. The latest came as a huge success of the Europe Under 13 Challenge this year at Podgorica.

Talks also included projects of ETTU Development Program as one of the ETTU current top priorities. The Eurotalents Pre-Selection Camps and the Eurotalents U13 Program 2023 are essential part of the ETTU Development plan alongside Coaching Seminars and Women Coaching Seminars Para camps and creation of a Network of European Training Centers.

 

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