Premier India Football Academy invited FA/ UEFA licensed coaches Gary Lewis and Peter Tickle from Inspire Academy, England to conduct sessions at 3 venues in India.
Both coaches have great experience training youth academies such as BCSSA & Everton FC Youth Academy. This was Peter Tickles second visit to India and he was impressed by the progress that the children from the academy have made. He feels it will not be long before our boys will be able to compete with the European youth teams.
At each of these camps, the children were trained like they would at the Everton FC Youth academy and were given talks on nutrition, fitness & football psychology. Their football knowledge was also quizzed. All participants competed in a skills contest. The winner won a Nike Football amongst other things. All participants were given a t-shirt, cap and an information file.
The first camp held on 29 October to 1 November 2007 was an all girls’ camp held at the Unison World School. Forty-Eight girls benefited from the training program the first in Dehra Dun. The final day was quite sad, as the girls had formed a bond for the PIFA team. They tearfully bid the coaches & PIFA director Anjali Shah farewell, each of the girls gave the coaches a hand made card.
The second camp was held in South Mumbai at the Karnataka Sports ground from 3rd to 6th November 2007. PIFA Director joined the camp after retuning from England on completion of his UEFA B license course. There were 52 participants that enrolled of which Dr Francis Saldanha of USA, sponsored 10 children for the camp that finished top in the PIFA Skills contest held in October at St Xavier’s ground, Parel. The skills winner for this camp was Aryaan Sood with 760 points
The third and final camp was held in North Mumbai at the St Andrews School form 7th to 10th November 2007. The camp sold out with in a week. Three girls participated in the camp along with forty-four boys. The skills winner was Calvin Lobo with 770 points.
The camps ended with PIFA Director Nirvan Shah felicitating the 2 boys of India U-16 team Harshad Meher & Ajith Bhoir with a cheque for Rs 5,000 each from PIFA Foundation. They returned from the AFC championship tournament in Saudi Arabia, unbeaten. Both boys are from PIFA.
The camps were all sold out. PIFA is now planning camps to Spain, Italy & England in the summer.
For more details visit www.pifacademy.com
A Football Academy in India that is dedicated to training young children. It strongly believes that the road to India's FIFA World Cup is thru the children,they are the future of India.
PIFA organise camps in Europe & in India with UEFA Coaches as well as runs a training academy in Mumbai. All coaches are AFC / FA/ UEFA licensed. They have a mens & womens team in the MFL. The also conduct various events related to childrens football
Tied up with Bobby Charlton Soccer & Sports Academy, Rangers Soccer School, AC Milan Academy, Cruzerio EC, Everton FC Youth Academy.
PIFA Vision - India in the 2022 World Cup !!!
Source: http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/sports/200711175690.htm
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