Football Delhi join hands with Sportseed-PRO to promote football at school level
In an initiative to train aspiring footballers at the school level, Football Delhi has joined hands with global physical literacy and excellence promoter Sportseed-PRO. The partnership will see the organisation conduct scientific football programmes in schools to nurture young talents.
Sportseed-PRO promotes scientific sports and fitness amongst youngsters to attain healthy habits and sports excellence. The approach will complement Football Delhiās vision of taking an interest to take up the sport seriously in the school level to strengthen grassroots development.
"Schools are one of our key stakeholders and having a scientific football programme in schools are important to develop football and identify potential talents. Through this partnership, we are expecting to deliver a quality football programme to schools and build a strong foundation for football in the National Capital Region," said Football Delhi President Shaji Prabhakaran as reported by mykhel.com.
The global organisation will aid Football Delhi to stage U13, U15 and U17 School Leagues. It was also informed that Sportseed-PRO will adopt an age-specific curriculum which will be under the supervision of UEFA Pro Licence coaches and executed by AFC Licence holders.
"Sportseed-PRO will introduce football to schools in partnership with Football Delhi by adopting an age-specific curriculum based on global best practices under the guidance of UEFA Pro License Coaches and implemented by AFC license coaches, said Himagshu Talukdar, the COO of Sportseed-PRO.