24 Young Indian Football Champs Get Reliance Funding
Reliance Foundation Young Champs backs grass-root football in India.
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As part of its commitment to develop grass-roots level football in the country, the Reliance Foundation has handed out residential school scholarships to 24 hand-picked boys in the age group of 11-14 years.
Announcing the scholarships for the children, who had been selected via the grass-roots programme of the franchise clubs of the Indian Super League, Foundation’s founder and chairperson Nita Ambani said that in the first year itself the programme was able to reach out to five lakh children across the length and breadth of the country.
From the 5 lakh children, 200 were picked to undergo a 10-day training here and from that lot 24 have been selected as Reliance Foundation Young Champs who will receive training under expert international coaches and trainers and will also get to study at the Reliance Foundation School in Mumbai.
– Nita Ambani
The 200 children were short-listed from football camps and selection trials organised by the eight ISL franchises and invited to Mumbai for the training overseen by Piet Hubers, technical director of the grass root programme, and Marcus Vaessen, head coach of the programme.