umbai: After the runaway success of the inaugural edition of the
Mahindra Youth Football Challenge (MYFC), it’s time once again for top
class football action from the leading schools and the playing field
will be the City of Mumbai. The second Intra-City leg of this unique
Under-14 Schools Football Tournament-cum-Talent Hunt will see more than
40 leading soccer playing schools from Mumbai competing amongst
themselves from January 3, 2012 onwards to bag the honour of the
“Champion School” of Mumbai.
The Champion School of Mumbai will then lock horns with five other champion schools from Bangalore, Goa, Kolkata, Delhi and Kerala to decide the winner of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge. While the Intra-City legs have already concluded in Bangalore, Delhi, and Kolkata, action is on in Kerala, while the Intra-City leg in Goa is scheduled to commence on December 23, 2011.
MYFC is the Mahindra Group’s commitment to promote football at the grassroots level. The company has partnered with Scottish football giants, Celtic Football Club, who will take on the responsibility of training and developing young talent identified through the initiative. The MYFC initiative is being promoted and executed by leading sports management company, Procam International.
Interestingly this year MYFC has got on board 92.7 BIG FM the country’s largest FM network with 45 radio stations across the country as the official radio partner for this edition of the tournament.
India’s no. 1 FM station, 92.7 BIG FM continues to be the official Radio Partner for the MYFC.
Speaking on their association with the event, Mr Siddharth Bhardwaj- National Sales Head of Reliance Broadcast Network Limited, said, “92.7 Big FM is pleased to be associated with this grass-root level initiative. We are glad to partner with MYFC and lend our wide FM radio network across the country to reach out to aspiring youngsters. This platform will undoubtedly help to attract talent and offer the youngsters exposure to world-class facilities and training, which will certainly help them achieve their professional dreams.”
The Mumbai leg of the MYFC is being conducted by the Mumbai School Sports Association and the matches will be played at the MSSA Ground.
Among the top 40 schools invited to participate in the championships are fancied names that include Defending Champion Don Bosco, Matunga, runner up St Francis D’Assisi, Borivli, St Joseph High School, St Lawrence High School, Borivli, St Mary’s ICSE and Bombay Scottish, the name of few.
Don Bosco, Matunga had emerged Mumbai champions in the inaugural year and represented the city in the Inter-City Championship. Sukantanagar Vidyaniketan School from Kolkata was the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge all-India champion, while Govt. Sports School, Bangalore finished runner-up.
INTER-CITY CHALLENGE: All the city winners will be participating in a inter-city challenge wherein they will be provided 3 tier AC sleeper for travel. Each player from the six teams in the Inter-City League will be given two pairs of kitting (Jersey, Shorts & Stockings), while travel, out of pocket expenses during the travel, and lodging & boarding of all the six schools will be taken care of by MYFC.
Players who will be selected for the coaching clinic will be provided with necessary kitting and will be sent back by air.
The winning schools from the six cities and their coaches will benefit from a four-day coaching camp to be conducted by a panel of visiting coaches from the Celtic Football Club before the Inter-City Challenge. This same panel will then shortlist 24 players from the Inter-City Challenge who will further undergo an intensive five-day long coaching clinic where two to four of the best players will be picked to travel to Scotland and the Celtic Football Club for further intensive training.
Three footballers, Bishal Harizan and Jayanta Mondal from Kolkata and Mani Maran R. from Bangalore, emerged the best three footballers from the first season of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge. After intense football action across six cities, involving 32 schools from each city, these three were picked after the Inter-City Challenge and got an opportunity to avail of a ten-day intensive coaching camp in Glasgow with the Celtic Football Club.
Bishal Harizan, Jayanta Mondal and Mani Maran spent fruitful days at Celtic FC, where they got an opportunity to watch a Scottish Premier League game at Celtic Park, involving Celtic FC and Motherwell FC and another at Ibrox Stadium featuring Celtic FC vs Glasgow Rangers. Their training there involved individual technique training, multiple sessions of Sports Science Testing, learning the right warm up techniques with the under-19 team, and daily coaching sessions with the Celtic Under-15 team. Bangalore’s Mani Maran was then selected to represent the Celtic FC Under-16 team to play against the Monash Football Club from Melbourne, Australia, capping a successful and satisfying experience for the three lads.
Peter Lawwell, Chief Executive of Celtic Football Club, had this to say about the three boys who were picked after the inaugural edition of the MYFC to travel to Glasgow and train at the Celtic Football Club Academy, “Celtic Football Club has been delighted with the progress made during the first year of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge. The three players who visited the club’s academy in Scotland were a credit to all involved with the tournament and acquitted themselves excellently. We are looking further to developing this relationship further over the next 12 months and hope to play a substantial role in developing young football players across the country and ensuring a positive experience is had by all.”
There is plenty to play for in the Intra-City stage, with the winners from each city gaining Rs. 30,000, the runners-up team Rs. 20,000 and the 3rd placed winner Rs. 15,000. The teams that reach the last eight stages will be provided with kitting, while the winners and runners-up teams will be awarded trophies with each player from these teams getting a kit bag. Similarly, there will be a ‘Star Performer of the Game’ trophy for each match from the quarter-final stage and ‘Best Player of the Tournament’ Trophy to be won.
Going ahead, the champion school of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge will receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000, along with the winner’s trophy, while the runner-up team will win a cash prize of Rs 30,000 and a trophy. There will also be awards such as ‘Star Performer of the Game’ and individual appreciation trophies for the ‘Best Striker’, ‘Best Mid-fielder’, ‘Best Defender’ and ‘Best Goalkeeper.’
The Champion School of Mumbai will then lock horns with five other champion schools from Bangalore, Goa, Kolkata, Delhi and Kerala to decide the winner of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge. While the Intra-City legs have already concluded in Bangalore, Delhi, and Kolkata, action is on in Kerala, while the Intra-City leg in Goa is scheduled to commence on December 23, 2011.
MYFC is the Mahindra Group’s commitment to promote football at the grassroots level. The company has partnered with Scottish football giants, Celtic Football Club, who will take on the responsibility of training and developing young talent identified through the initiative. The MYFC initiative is being promoted and executed by leading sports management company, Procam International.
Interestingly this year MYFC has got on board 92.7 BIG FM the country’s largest FM network with 45 radio stations across the country as the official radio partner for this edition of the tournament.
“We are very proud to bring back the Mahindra Youth Football
Challenge for its second year. We were humbled by the response we
received for the tournament. With the talent that we identified at the
end of the first year, I am glad to say that we more than achieved the
objectives that we had set for the league, which was to identify and
nurture talent at the grass root level. We hope to continue this in the
second year as well,” Mr. Mufaddal Choonia, Deputy General Manager,
Corporate Strategy of Mahindra & Mahindra, has been quoted as
saying.
Speaking about the top-class event that will commence in the six
cities, Vivek B. Singh, Jt. Managing Director of Procam International,
said, “It is indeed a pleasure to be associated with a project that
involves such reputed entities as Mahindra and Celtic FC. Procam
International is committed to giving India’s junior footballers a
professional playing experience, enabling them to focus completely on
the task on hand, which is to play good football.”India’s no. 1 FM station, 92.7 BIG FM continues to be the official Radio Partner for the MYFC.
Speaking on their association with the event, Mr Siddharth Bhardwaj- National Sales Head of Reliance Broadcast Network Limited, said, “92.7 Big FM is pleased to be associated with this grass-root level initiative. We are glad to partner with MYFC and lend our wide FM radio network across the country to reach out to aspiring youngsters. This platform will undoubtedly help to attract talent and offer the youngsters exposure to world-class facilities and training, which will certainly help them achieve their professional dreams.”
The Mumbai leg of the MYFC is being conducted by the Mumbai School Sports Association and the matches will be played at the MSSA Ground.
Among the top 40 schools invited to participate in the championships are fancied names that include Defending Champion Don Bosco, Matunga, runner up St Francis D’Assisi, Borivli, St Joseph High School, St Lawrence High School, Borivli, St Mary’s ICSE and Bombay Scottish, the name of few.
Don Bosco, Matunga had emerged Mumbai champions in the inaugural year and represented the city in the Inter-City Championship. Sukantanagar Vidyaniketan School from Kolkata was the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge all-India champion, while Govt. Sports School, Bangalore finished runner-up.
INTER-CITY CHALLENGE: All the city winners will be participating in a inter-city challenge wherein they will be provided 3 tier AC sleeper for travel. Each player from the six teams in the Inter-City League will be given two pairs of kitting (Jersey, Shorts & Stockings), while travel, out of pocket expenses during the travel, and lodging & boarding of all the six schools will be taken care of by MYFC.
Players who will be selected for the coaching clinic will be provided with necessary kitting and will be sent back by air.
The winning schools from the six cities and their coaches will benefit from a four-day coaching camp to be conducted by a panel of visiting coaches from the Celtic Football Club before the Inter-City Challenge. This same panel will then shortlist 24 players from the Inter-City Challenge who will further undergo an intensive five-day long coaching clinic where two to four of the best players will be picked to travel to Scotland and the Celtic Football Club for further intensive training.
Three footballers, Bishal Harizan and Jayanta Mondal from Kolkata and Mani Maran R. from Bangalore, emerged the best three footballers from the first season of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge. After intense football action across six cities, involving 32 schools from each city, these three were picked after the Inter-City Challenge and got an opportunity to avail of a ten-day intensive coaching camp in Glasgow with the Celtic Football Club.
Bishal Harizan, Jayanta Mondal and Mani Maran spent fruitful days at Celtic FC, where they got an opportunity to watch a Scottish Premier League game at Celtic Park, involving Celtic FC and Motherwell FC and another at Ibrox Stadium featuring Celtic FC vs Glasgow Rangers. Their training there involved individual technique training, multiple sessions of Sports Science Testing, learning the right warm up techniques with the under-19 team, and daily coaching sessions with the Celtic Under-15 team. Bangalore’s Mani Maran was then selected to represent the Celtic FC Under-16 team to play against the Monash Football Club from Melbourne, Australia, capping a successful and satisfying experience for the three lads.
Peter Lawwell, Chief Executive of Celtic Football Club, had this to say about the three boys who were picked after the inaugural edition of the MYFC to travel to Glasgow and train at the Celtic Football Club Academy, “Celtic Football Club has been delighted with the progress made during the first year of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge. The three players who visited the club’s academy in Scotland were a credit to all involved with the tournament and acquitted themselves excellently. We are looking further to developing this relationship further over the next 12 months and hope to play a substantial role in developing young football players across the country and ensuring a positive experience is had by all.”
There is plenty to play for in the Intra-City stage, with the winners from each city gaining Rs. 30,000, the runners-up team Rs. 20,000 and the 3rd placed winner Rs. 15,000. The teams that reach the last eight stages will be provided with kitting, while the winners and runners-up teams will be awarded trophies with each player from these teams getting a kit bag. Similarly, there will be a ‘Star Performer of the Game’ trophy for each match from the quarter-final stage and ‘Best Player of the Tournament’ Trophy to be won.
Going ahead, the champion school of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge will receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000, along with the winner’s trophy, while the runner-up team will win a cash prize of Rs 30,000 and a trophy. There will also be awards such as ‘Star Performer of the Game’ and individual appreciation trophies for the ‘Best Striker’, ‘Best Mid-fielder’, ‘Best Defender’ and ‘Best Goalkeeper.’
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