India: In what promises to be a new chapter in Indian football, Civil Aviation Minister Mr. Praful Patel inaugurated today the BV & KW’s Abhijit Kadam Football Development Centre (AKFDC), India’s first truly international football training centre in association with The FA, AIFF and Liverpool. Also present at the inauguration were MP Loksabha & IOA President Suresh Kalmadi and Chancellor of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University and Minister for Forest Dr Patangrao Kadam. AKFDC endeavors to be the India’s first centre aimed at creating football industry professionals by providing courses in coaching and refereeing apart from building a talented football talent base.
Students at the centre will be able to enroll on a number of football related courses, which are to be delivered in partnership with some leading UK colleges. The courses include, coaching, refereeing, Sports Science, Sports Turf technology and Football Industry Management. Most of the curriculum will be delivered in Pune but students will be offered the chance to complete some of their studies in the UK.
India has 14 Professional 1st Division Clubs, 21 Second Division Clubs and more than 200 Professional & Semi Professional Clubs in the country playing in various tournaments and Leagues organized under the various State Associations and the All India Football Federation. We also have numerous schools, colleges and universities where football is a very popular sport. By completing courses like these, students graduating can have ready job opportunities in these clubs, schools, colleges and universities to make a career out of the favourite sport.
Mr.Vishwajeet Kadam, Secretary of Bharati Vidyapeeth, and Vice President of WIFA & President of Pune District Football Association stated, “We are extremely privileged to have both national and international dignitaries at this momentous occasion. With partners such as AIFF, The FA, Liverpool FC and Kickworldwide, football enthusiasts across India will have access to the best international minds in football for training them in all aspects of the game. AKFDC endeavors to take football in India to a higher dimension”.
The International Coaching & Refereeing Courses will be the first courses to take off at the AKFDC. The courses will be conducted by English FA from 19th of April onwards. Students who complete the FA level-1 coaching and refereeing courses at AKFDC will be allowed to move to England (only within FA jurisdiction). While the International Refereeing course at AKFDC will enable anyone completing the course to be recognized as a qualified referee in England.
About Bharati Vidyapeeth: Bharati Vidyapeeth, one of the leading educational conglomerates with 150 educational institutes in India, was established on 10th May, 1964 by Hon'ble Dr. Patangrao Kadam who is the Chancellor of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University. Bharati Vidyapeeth has campuses mainly in Western Maharashtra including Mumbai and in Capital City Delhi.
About Kickworldwide: UK based Kickworldwide has become one of the world’s leading organisations for the development of football in emerging markets. Kickworldwide believes it is essential that any commercial organisation that operates within any community should be obliged to put something back in to that community. Through its global reality TV format ‘Soccer Prince’ and its ‘Football Development Centres’, Kickworldwide is creating opportunities for young people across the world.
For further information, please contact:
Shivam Yadav
9826197117
Everything you tweet can and will be used against you in a court of law
Prosecutors have subpoenaed the Twitter records of an Occupy Wall Street protester who was arrested in October during a mass protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.. 
Read
A transparent social behavior can help build a long lasting social relationship
Summary Social behavior is a concept of creating social relationship with the people living in the society.. Read
Get the information about federal attorneys in florida
When you commit a crime, it is obviously not avoided or ignored by the law. You are charged with a penalty and fine.. Read
Gain some knowledge about government grants for non profit organizations
If you want to gain information about government grants for nonprofit organizations then read on.. Read
Time can really change a lot of things
I have to say that the fate really exists in this world. Otherwise the people we known for many years are like strange as we have never touched, which is less than the familiar feeling of the people we just know.. Read
Abhijit kadam football development centre in india
Civil Aviation Minister, Mr. Praful Patel inaugurates AKFDC in Pune. Read
Manipal homecare home health services
Manipal Health Systems – one of Asia’s largest healthcare management groups. Read
Brooke bond sehatmand makes a clarion call for nutrition through sehatmand divash
The streets of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar were abuzz with the sounds of dhol’s (drums). Read
Indian tennis league launched
AITA to revolutionize and develop game with attractive format; International champions to participate. Read
Carotid stenting a successful technique to prevent paralysis
Carotid Stenting is a new modality to treat blockage in the Carotid artery of body by means of deploying a small mash like tube in that blood vessel.. Read
