Reliance Foundation Young Champs (RFYC) is back with their 3rd edition of residential football scholarship. Image Source: RFYC[/caption]Internet Desk: Assuring their allegiance and loyalty towards a sustainable growth of football in India, Reliance Foundation Young Champs (RFYC) is back with their 3rd edition of residential football scholarship along with Atlético de Kolkata at Bidhannagar Municipal Sports Complex ground. A well-thought-out club scouting program for the age group of 11 to 14 is implemented to attract young players across Bengal mentored by Mr. Bastab Roy, Assistant Coach, Atlético de Kolkata and is scheduled to kick off today 7th April.
The programme currently hosts 121 promising talents selected out of relentless grassroots screening from interiors of North and South of Bengal at its Kolkata facility. The scouting programme aims to provide a platform at par with international standards. Piet Hubers, Technical Director, ISL Grassroots and Mark Veassen, Head Coach RFYC will lead the team to identify talents for RFYC’s third batch.
The programme will include identifying and evaluating technical skills in combination with warm up, position play followed by small sided game 4 vs. 4 or 5 vs. 5 and 7 vs. 7. All participants would be evaluated on the basis of their position play, passing ability, shooting accuracy, ball control, technical, mental and cognitive abili.
The first stage of scouting for the third batch began in Mumbai on April 6, before moving to Kolkata (on April 7) and will take place in Guwahati (April 8), Delhi (April 9), Kochi (April 10), Chennai (April 11), Goa (April 12) and Pune (April 13). The shortlisted talents from the Club scouting festivals will be invited for a week long RFYC final selection camp to be held from 2-8 May 2017 for a further round of screening. The final shortlisted candidates will be offered the Reliance Foundation Young Champs scholarship which is an all-expenses paid full time residential programme based out of Navi Mumbai with best in class training, schooling and nutrition.
The coveted RFYC scholarship has emerged as one of the most holistic sport programmes in the country with football and education as its founding pillars. Over the past two years, the talents have had the opportunity to visit various EPL clubs to play friendlies with respective academy teams as well as compete in domestic tournaments in India. More recently two of the Young Champs visited the Netherlands for a three week long training and exposure trip playing with the likes of PSV Einidhoven and NEC.
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