The captain of the Indian ladies’s soccer group Sweety Devi interacted with the trainees at the launch of the Zinc Football Girls Academy at the Zawar Mines right here on Thursday.
Sweety advised the 20 women, chosen within the under-15 age group for the academy — the primary of its variety within the nation, the delight she and the nationwide group had felt by beating Thailand “in their ground, in front of their people” to qualify for the AFC Cup.
“Our dream is to play in the World Cup. It will be tough teams to play in Australia to qualify, but we have time to prepare till March,” stated Sweety.
She was significantly impressed with the F-Cube know-how used for coaching at the academy, with a digital wall, on which the trainees had been bombarding their pictures, providing various knowledge and scientific evaluation for quick improvement of gamers.
“We are working hard to make life easy for you in future. We didn’t have such technology, but we train with such intensity and are so tired that we don’t remember that we have a mobile phone.
“We have no distraction. It is amazing that you have such technology to train at the grassroots level. We need such training centres in different parts of the country, and for girls,” stated Sweety.
The president of the All India Football Federation (AIFF), Kalyan Chaubey lauded Hindustan Zinc for the initiative and expressed confidence that in 5 years time many women from the academy would symbolize the nation.
Kishore Kumar, the chief working officer of Hindustan Zinc, stated that the success of growing round 200 boys at the centre since 2017 had prompted the group to give attention to ladies empowerment and inclusivity.
The goal of the academy was properly expressed within the slogan, “Desh ka sapna, Goal apna”.
Priya Agarwal Hebbar , chairperson Hindustan Zinc, sought steerage from AIFF, and guaranteed that the organisation was keen to do all the things to develop the 20 women who’ve the fervour and dedication to excel within the recreation, and emerge as robust personalities.
Maharani Nivritti Kumari Mewar appreciated the efforts and stated that sports activities like soccer taught a lot, and performed such a major half within the lives of kids, particularly in making certain good psychological well being.
“Football means team work, and it teaches you to be selfless in achieving the collective goal. For the girls, it will be a great way to be physically strong,” stated Nivritti Kumari.
In due course, the academy aspires to accommodate 60 women, and the work on growing the residential infrastructure was already in progress.
Kishore Kumar assured that there was no dearth of assets and the organisation was keen to “scale up” the efforts to strengthen the grassroots of Indian soccer.
