IMG Reliance to train sixteen U-14 Indian footballers to US

Report by Priyanka Patel

The joint venture by Reliance Industries Constrained (RIL) and IMG to develop, industry and control sports in India has turned out to be a boon for Indian football as the initial portion of their partnership with the All India Football Federation (AIFF), the group has made a decision to sponsor sixteen India U-14 boys to invest 9 months at the IMG Soccer Academy at Florida for 9 months.

Back in March, when RIL and IMG announced their partnership, they made the decision to initiate a scholarship plan which would determine Indian athletes with exceptional talent and therefore supplied educational scholarships to their residential academy in the US.

It was in January this 12 months that the AIFF held an U-14 festival in Jamshedpur from which the gifted ones had been picked. These boys joined the U-thirteen group from final year and subsequent a camp, the picked 22 boys have been sent for the AFC U-14 festival in Iran in May exactly where they managed to maintain the hosts twice with the scoreline reading through 1-1 and two-two respectively.

From these 22 gamers, sixteen have been selected and shall be sponsored by Mukesh Ambani, the fourth richest man in the globe in accordance to Forbes, and the IMG group. The gamers have been summoned to go to a camp in Gurgaon from the 7th of subsequent month until eventually the 27th following which they shall depart for the US along with the coach. When Goal.com contacted the AIFF, they chose to remain mum on the deal.

The IMG Soccer Academy has seven soccer fields and their amenities are used by the Bradenton Academy who run the US Soccer Residency Plan which has supplied a constant movement of talent for the US nationwide team with the likes of Landon Donovan, Oguchi Onyewu, Freddy Adu, Michael Bradley and Jozy Altidore coming by means of their ranks.

This offer marks a new era for sponsorship as it’s the very first of its type in football in India and it is heartening to see corporates coming ahead to support the result in of the most lovely sport.

Interestingly, 6 of the sixteen boys are hailing from Punjab and Chandigarh even though the conventional hubs of Indian football, West Bengal and Goa, contributing a player each and every.

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Reliance Industries (RIL) and IMG determined to sponsor 16 India U – 14 boys to shell out nine months at IMG Soccer Academy.