Hyderabad FC interacts with young coaches and players

The city football club highlights the importance of youth in the virtual event

Hyderabad: The 12th of August marks the International Youth Day every year, a day to highlight the importance of youth as the driving force of change in the world. To observe the day, a virtual event was hosted by Hyderabad Football Club and partners in association with Enabling Leadership NGO to interact with young coaches and football students entailing of fun and unique knowledge sharing sessions.

The on-going pandemic has taken a huge toll on everyone’s wellbeing including the highly impressionable and vulnerable section of our society. In order to continue contributing to their growth and development, Hyderabad FC brought together youngsters, many of whom are from underprivileged backgrounds in this virtual event to share the opportunity to engage and interact with industry experts and talk personally to the Indian National Team and Hyderabad FC first team players.

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The event saw prominent faces from across the football world come together to share their insights and hardship. Thangboi Singto – Technical Director (Youth) of Hyderabad FC, Mr. Rishi Nandwani – Program Lead of Just For Kicks, Mr. Markus Pasdzior – Lead International Activities of Borussia Dortmund, Mr. Siddharth Shanker – Lead of Reliance Foundation Sports and Ms. Aditi Chauhan – Founder of She Kicks & Indian Women’s National Team Goalkeeper engaged with the young coaches and the students to give insights on the football ecosystem, overcoming pandemic obstacles and just enjoying the game in its true glory.

The event also saw Indian National Team & Hyderabad FC defender, Chinglensana Singh and the recently signed young striker of Hyderabad FC, Aniket Jadhav interacting with ‘Just for Kicks’ program students from various parts of the country. The students had a fun banter with their idols and displayed skills and asked questions they needed answers to from their very own stars.

Identification and development of talented young players has been a nucleus at Hyderabad FC. This is a critical age phase to shape the future of Indian football world by providing youth a well-rounded platform to learn and grow through opportunities like these with the help and encouragement of organisations that work towards the development of youth through sports.

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