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Budapest, April 12, 2013 17:00

Promoting Hungarian football talent search and raising awareness of amateur and junior football, for the first time this year the Hungarian Student Sports association and Magyar Telekom jointly organise the Student Olympics football competitions, having decades long traditions.

The series of events called Telekom Football Student Olympics putting thousands of players to action between April 20 and June 17, 2013 will be organised in several age groups, for boys and girls, students of elementary and secondary schools, in an „upward” competition system. At the locations of county level and national finals student players, teachers and family members supporting them and the fans will be entertained by versatile programmes, featuring Levente Harsányi, Zoli Ganxsta, Olivér Nacsa and freestyle world champion Kitti Szász.

The Telekom Football Student Olympics were announced in Szent-Györgyi Albert Elementary and Secondary School, with participants including dr. István Simicskó, state secretary of the Human Resources Ministry responsible for sports and youth, Attila Keszég, chief officer of Magyar Telekom responsible for residential services, Gábor Balogh, chairman of the Hungarian Student Sports Association as well as the winning girls’ team of the 2012 Football Student Olympics in age group 5-6. The girls’ team will leave for the Secondary Schools’ Football World Championship on Saturday.

The county level finals of the Telekom Football Student Olympics will be organised at 20 locations, in 19 counties and Budapest, with 760 football teams and 8,500 players. Organisers welcome players, families and fans with free programmes, competitions and valuable prizes in the designated county level sports centres and in Budapest.

The objective of the Hungarian Student Sports Association is to promote educating youth for healthy lifestyle, raising awareness of regular physical exercise and doing sports, increasing the number of students regularly involved in sports activities and succession management in competition level sports, as well as representing members and their interests both in Hungary and internationally.

„Magyar Telekom’s support is an extremely important factor with regards to renewing the student sports movement. The commitment of Hungary’s leading info--communication service provider for football, coupled with the experiences of the association of many years represents ample guarantee for the success of the event series” – said Gábor Balogh, chairman of the Hungarian Student Sports Association.

For decades Magyar Telekom has been a key supporter of Hungarian sports and committed for creating community experiences and events, being of importance to the Hungarian public. The company intends to share high quality and high profile sports and music experiences with millions of its customers, either live or through the company’s services.„Being the name sponsor of the Telekom Football Student Olympics represents the latest chapter of Telekom’s commitment for Hungarian football and raising its awareness. Our intention – jointly with the Hungarian Student Sports Association – is to support Hungarian student football, raising attention to the importance of sports and educating future generations for a healthy lifestyle, and to contribute to developing opportunities of football and training new talents for Hungarian football” – said Attila Keszég, chief officer of Magyar Telekom responsible for residential services.

Website www.diaksport.eu/telekomfoci offers further details; visitors can view the live broadcasts about the Telekom Football Student Olympics, as well as creative video materials and can participate in raffle games.