The British Council of India in association with the Football Association of Odisha (FAO) is conducting a two day Community Football Coaching Program of the Premier Skills program in Cuttack which kicked-off on Saturday, July 27. The Premier Skills program has Kuntala Ghosh Dastidar and Madhusudan Mazumdar as the course …
Read More »When Tottenham Hotspur players Harry Kane, Jan Vertonghen and Oliver Skipp paid a visit to Shanghai during their preseason club tour, inspiring young footballers at the grassroots level was a key agenda item. The athletes met with youth players from the Nike School Champions League — a Nike-sponsored, dual-gender tournament …
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Richard Hood has worked extensively in developing and implementing programs to take football to children across India. Richard joins the 420 Grams crew to talk about how football is being taught and played by boys and girls of different ages. Among the issues we talk about are the dangers of …
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It was a morning full of joy as 360 girls from three different schools participated in an all-girls Grassroots Festival organised by Jamshedpur FC and Tata Steel Sports Department to celebrate JRD Tata’s birth anniversary. The enthusiasm was sky-rocketing during the festival as girls from Sacred Heart Convent School, JH …
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Northern Mariana Island FA (NMIFA) has been awarded the AFC Grassroots Charter Bronze membership for its outstanding commitment to grassroots football development. The Grassroots Charter is a development tool for Member Associations to raise the quality of their grassroots programmes. It identifies 20 performance categories, such as grassroots competitions, fairplay, …
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On Saturday, July 20, Jamshedpur FC officials visited Utkramit Madhya Vidyalaya in Tangrine which is situated in Potka. The team of officials, which included Head of Grassroots, Kundan Chandra; Sr. Manager – Marketing and Operations, Raja Bhattacharjee; and Manager – Administration, Vikas Anthony distributed NIVIA footballs and a few Jamshedpur …
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The British Council of India in association with the Football Association of Odisha (FAO) will be conducting a two day Community Football Coaching Program of the Premier Skills program in Cuttack on July 27/28, 2019. The total number of seats for this course is limited to 24 persons. The intending …
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India’s Minister of State (Independent Charge) Youth Affairs & Sports, and Minister of State for Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju, along with Kushal Das, All India Football Federation general secretary launched the AIFF Golden Baby Leagues Handbook 2019-20 on the sidelines of the Intercontinental Cup in Ahmedabad. AIFF Technical Director Isac …
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Jamshedpur FC have successfully implemented their Grassroots Programme with eight football schools being launched (650+ kids training thrice a week) alongwith the fourteen grassroots football festivals in the previous 2018-19 season (over 3,700+ participants). With the kids receiving daily training in the previous football season, the club decided to choose …
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Following the completion of a series of Grassroots Leaders Courses in the North-Eastern region, fourteen hand-picked coaches from the states of Manipur, Meghalaya, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh were in attendance in the first-ever AIFF NorthEast Instructors’ Course conducted in Shillong, Meghalaya from June 27-July 2, 2019 under …
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