JAMSHEDPUR: The All India Football Federation will soon ink a formal agreement with the Jharkhand government to aid in the skill enhancement of players in the state, AIFF deputy general secretary Abhishek Yadav told Telegraph India on Wednesday.
Yadav was in Jamshedpur to oversee the conduct of the senior women’s national camp for the AFC Women’s Asia Cup scheduled to be held in India early next year.
“We are happy at the proactive support shown by chief minister Hemant Soren in hosting the women’s national camp in Jharkhand during the Covid pandemic. He has sought the federation’s help in improving football standards in Jharkhand and soon a formal agreement would be inked with the government in this regard,” said Yadav.
Yadav, who had also been the national football director, further said: “The MoU with the state government would touch the verticals of providing AIFF expertise in domestic leagues, improving standards of domestic players and also the conduct national and international matches in Jharkhand, apart from hosting national camps.”
Jharkhand Sports Minister Hafizul Hassan, who was also in the city to encourage the women’s team, said that the state government would soon launch its new sports policy. “The sports policy would be released soon in which we aim to provide jobs to 50 meritorious players every year and create sports infrastructure in each of the blocks (264) in Jharkhand to tap the talent at the grassroots level and hone their skills at the state-level training centres,” Hassan said.
The national camp which began on August 17 at Jamshedpur is being supervised by Swedish coach Thomas Dennerby. Dennerby, who has over three decades of experience, previously guided the Swedish national team to a third-place finish in the 2011 Fifa Women’s World Cup, and to a quarter-final spot in the 2012 London Olympics.
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