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 …
Read More »Jamshedpur FC Reserves to commence exposure tour to Bhubaneswar!
The Jamshedpur FC Reserves won the second edition of the JSA Super Cup as they beat Tata Motors 3-0 in the final at the Tinplate Stadium. The teams had their tasks cut out with the heavy rainfall causing an additional challenge during the match. The Jamshedpur FC Reserves put three …
Read More »AU Rajasthan FC launches premier residential academy in Jaipur!
After a year’s hard work and success, AU Rajasthan FC in collaboration with Poornima University has launched a premier football residential academy in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The players for this academy were carefully handpicked by the AU Rajasthan FC team through trials in all major cities in India. In this new …
Read More »Punjab & Haryana High Court issue notice to AIFF against validity of TW-3 Test!
After being denied the opportunity to participate in the Hero Sub-Junior League 2018/19, on the basis of the result of the TW3 test which assessed his age to be above the approved limit of 14.4 prescribed by the AIFF, Tushar Chaudhary, an U-13 Minerva Punjab FC squad member along with …
Read More »Chandigarh FA to hold trials for their sub-junior boys team!
The Chandigarh Football Association (CFA) is set to hold open trials for their Chandigarh sub-junior boys team to participate in the AIFF U-16 National Championship for the Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy on July 23. The trials would be held at the Sector 46 Sports Complex in Chandigarh from 3pm on …
Read More »Jamshedpur FC conduct selection for U-12 & U-10 Boys Advanced Training Programme!
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 …
Read More »VIDEO – Bengaluru FC: Our Football Factory – The BFC Academy!
BFC TV made its way to the facilities of the Club Academy in Bellary, where apart from working their socks off on the field, some of India’s finest young footballers are given a platform for Academic Excellence, state-of-the-art sporting infrastructure and athlete nutrition. Delve deep and go behind the scenes …
Read More »Five Mohun Bagan juniors called up to senior team trials!
After Mohun Bagan has secured the services of numerous Indian players and foreigners it is time to induct young guns from the academy into the senior team. The Mohun Bagan senior team coaching staff had minutely evaluated the performance of the Under-19 team in the recently concluded Zee Bangla Football …
Read More »Bengaluru FC add Sachin Badhade to their Academy Staff!
Bengaluru FC have confirmed the addition of I-League winning coach Sachin Badhade to their Academy staff the club announced on Tuesday. The 39-year-old AFC ‘A’ License holder joins the Blues’ residential set-up in Bellary after guiding I-League side Minerva Punjab FC to a third-place finish in Group E of the …
Read More »XtraTime VIDEO: East Bengal’s Ranjan Chowdhury speaks youth development!
XtraTime sat down with East Bengal head of youth development Ranjan Chowdhury to speak about youth development in India and his aim to regularly produce players for the clubs first team.
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