Update - QPR Involved in Indian Football Project

Coaching team from QPR, that's a bit of a laugh! Actually, it isn't at all funny. What coaches can we spare to go there before Christmas?

QPR Report leading the way in the news about QPR and India Strange: You'd think this would be something the Official Site would be highlighting

December 22, 2009
Nine municipal school players to attend QPR camp

Mumbai, Dec 22 (PTI) Twenty four school children, including nine footballers from municipal schools in South Mumbai, have been picked to undergo a four-day coaching camp conducted by coaches from the London-based Queens Park Rangers club. The players chosen at the end of the two-day South Mumbai Junior Challenge 2009, an initiative of MP Milind Deora, would attend the camp at the Karnataka football ground here on December 31 this year and on January 2 and 3, 2010.

The fourth day training, on January 4, would be held at the Cooperage ground, a media release said. From the two dozen players, including six girls, picked by ex-international Santosh Kashyap, two would be chosen to travel to the home of Queens Park Rangers in London for a six to eight week training stint.

Six of the nine players from municipal schools are studying at the Sau. Usha Devi Pandurang Waghe school, Colaba, which lost the under-14 final to Antonio De Souza, while three are from the Colaba Municipal School.

These players will share a platform with players from other elite
schools from South Mumbai during the camp, the release added.
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And this
South Mumbai Soccer Challenge to promote football among youth
Mumbai | Saturday, Dec 12 2009 IST




Promotion of football among the youth in the city is set to receive a huge boost due to the initiative of Lok Sabha MP Milind Deora, who has conceptualised the annual South Mumbai Junior Soccer Challenge 2009 with a view to unearthing talent at the grassroots level. Over 200 teams (including 1600 participants) have registered for the above Championship which is to be conducted on December 19-20 2009 at the Cooperage football ground and is open to all South Mumbai schools, including private schools, Government aided schools and municipal schools, thereby providing an equal and fair opportunity to children from different backgrounds to showcase their skills on a common platform.

''Football is a rapidly growing sport with youngsters taking to this sport in large numbers. Besides bringing out qualities of teamwork and the spirit of fair play the sport also provides an ideal platform for children to engage in a health and fitness activities,'' said Deora at a press conference to announce the event here today.

Queens Park Rangers Football Club and its key investors, including Lakshmi Mittal and Amit Bhatia, are delighted and proud to be involved in this venture as an official partner, working closely with its project leader Milind Deora.

The event shall be of a 5-A-Side format for South Mumbai schools and it shall be for boys and girls between the ages of 8-11 years and 11-14 years. The uniqueness of this event is the fact that the participating schools would include municipal schools, government aided schools and private schools.

Twenty four talented youngsters will be shortlisted for a coaching clinic to be conducted by the QPR coaching teams, which would be coming down from UK. Also from this training camp, two youngsters shall be selected for further training as part of the QPR Youth training programme in UK, it was stated at the press conference.

The event is being sponsored by Coca Cola India and is being partnered by Queens Park Rangers (QPR), owned by NRI business tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.
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