Elias Mastoras

Global Leaders Workshop in Athens, Greece  | June 23-25, 2023

Elias Mastoras

Elias Mastoras is the current IBSA Blind Football Chairman 2021-2025. He received first place at the EU Sports Awards in May 2022 for the “A Ball for All” campaign. He is the current EU “Local Hero” in the last edition of the Be Active Sports Awards of the EU. He is an adult educator and a youth trainer in the E+ Youth National Agencies of Greece and Cyprus and SALT0 Inclusion – Diversity “Mobility Taster” based in Brussels. He is a FIDE Chess Trainer and a FIDE Master as a chess player; he runs the “Say Chess” Academy in Panorama since 1999. He was the national coach of the Greek Blind delegation in the Chess Olympiad in Brazil, in 1996. He was a Rio2016 Referee Coordinator and World Referee Coordinator 2013-2017, and a Referee of Gold Medal Match in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. He patented the unique light sound ball, which is available only for donation. In the first four years of the #ABallforAll campaign, more than 12,500 mini-blind footballs have been distributed in 213 countries and territories on five continents. Elias is the legal representative of Orama Neon Youthorama NGO.