Harpal Singh Bedi / New Delhi
To spot the talent at the grass root level with the help of technology and data-driven analysis, Hindustan Zinc, a Vedanta Group company, on Friday announced their plans of setting up a full-fledged Zinc football residential academy at Zawar, Udaipur.
The Zinc Football Academy will be equipped with 3 FIFA Quality Turf and also a 7v7 size Natural Grass Ground for training and practice equipped with Team Dugouts.
At the core of this initiative is world-class facilities and the country’s first ever ‘technology-hinged football training’ – the unique F-Cube technology.
With the introduction of F-Cube Training and Assessment Technology, the key developmental parameters of the Zinc Football Academy and Schools, players will be continuously evaluated, monitored and analysed through well-regulated player data tracking and help our qualified staff to take appropriate steps for the right development of these children.
In addition, Zinc Football will also have a massive outreach programme to impart football coaching to over 2000 passionate boys and girls by fully skilled football trainers through 64 community football centres – Zinc Football Schools.
The academy, which will feature a fully-equipped residential hostel, has identified its first batch of 30 extremely talented young boys, under the age group of 14 years, handpicked among 4500+ aspirants through various scouting camps held over the past year.
The company will be providing these children with all the opportunities and right guidance to groom them into professional footballers while taking care of their formal education also.
Speaking on the initiative, Hindustan Zinc Ltd CEO Sunil Duggal said ,”With the launch of this initiative, we commit to identify and cultivate latent talent from grass root level; which shall not only support and establish Rajasthan once again on the Indian football map, “
President, Vedanta Football Annanya Agarwal said, “ Our aim is to put India firmly on the World’s football map and see our country among the top-10 teams in Asia and top-50 in the world within the next five years.”