Let us Change Indian Youth Football - Start from Scratch!
cleatbeat
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First of all, let us introduce ourselves. We are Cleat Beat, India's first football magazine started in 2010. We focus on development of the game in India. What we have noticed on this forum is that people mostly talk about Indian football and as far as we are concerned, talk is cheap!<div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">We have seen several initiatives that are supposed to develop Indian football. Bringing in foreign coaches for 10 or 15 day coaching camps, opening Manchester United & Liverpool schools that few can afford, and focusing on a sub-standard I-League are the biggest reasons why the money is not flowing in the right direction in Indian football. People are looking at India's growing middle-class as the "biggest market" for football. That means, we buy their shirts, their merchandize and go to their stadiums to watch their games - Where is the development in all this?</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Then there's the bit about setting up FIFA-AIFF academies. How many people train in these academies? 200? There are over 400 million children in India and these academies account for less than 2000.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">So here's what we are doing:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">The concept is simple - Indian engineers and doctors are the most sought-after in the world because we are the best. Why? Because every year, crores of students struggle to get into these courses and lakhs are taken, of which the top few are considered the cream amongst all engineers and doctors in the world.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div>What's wrong with football? Forget the I-League and the Under-19s, there aren't enough children playing the game in the first place! Between the age of 4 and 16, how many children play the game? We need more children playing the game and more coaches coaching it in the <b>right</b> way. How do we do it? Well, we don't know about you but here is how we <b>do</b> it.</div><div><br></div><div>1. We have a magazine that highlights the best practices from all across the world. We tell you how European football works not so that more people read our magazine, but so that more people realise that <b>that</b> is how football needs to be played. We give away the magazine for free so that people don't think we are doing it for the money.</div><div><br></div><div>2. We give out free training exercises and drills so that coaches can constantly learn new things and stay with the times. Knowledge is the most important thing in football and our coaches tend to hate learning because they feel they already "know" everything they need to know. This attitude needs to change and that's we are hoping to do. Again, its free of advertisements and money - so that no one thinks twice.</div><div><br></div><div>3. We give out free footballs to children in Primary Schools from second and third tier towns. Why? So that they start playing it when they get home. Every kid gets a football so that they don't fight over one ball and every kid can go home and play on their own. <b>That</b> is how players are created, not through academies where they play three times a week for an hour.</div><div><br></div><div>4. We are training people to become coaches and training coaches to become people. We are not trying to make 1000 Ronaldo-like players - we are just trying to get children to enjoy the game and even if they don't become pro-players, at least they can become better human beings. Coaches receive these training sessions for free!</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">What we would like to see is some less talk and more action. Is there anyone out there who's willing to help us out? If yes, please get in touch - there are plenty of ways to do so! </span></div>
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IFN is a great source for people to discuss about Indian football and
there are good amount of people out here who are into Football
administration at club levels so they do try to implement ideas which
people give here<br><br>Also, as an admin of several websites I found your post here a bit spammy coz you are advertising yourself here. I think very few members know about what you do and you could have introduced yourself or your company in the introduction thread rather than spamming here. <br>
<br><br>@ Cleatbeat ... you have wonderfully summarized on how DNA of a Football nation can be grown, how it can get truly popular and played by the masses in India.. What you have enlightened us is seen in d football crazy countries like Brazil . Argentina, UK Germany Nigeria etc. Maximise your base of football loving children /youth and down the years we will have enough of a base of choose quality and talented players.. <br><br>but does that mean we really stop doing everything else.?.. stop AIFF academies or Palian Arrows or Stop like minded football fans commenting on this forum.. <br><br>you are doing great work with the magazine, free training and all .keep it up but i wonder why this sudden outburst on this forum?.<br><br><br><br><br>
<br><div><br></div><div>To reply to your points - You are telling us that the online world isn't the place to teach people stuff? All the knowledge shared online, all the coaches and quality of information you have access to is unbeatable.</div><div><br></div><div>As for our "spam" comments - what is spam about what we are doing? We have written what we are doing for Indian football to justify our anger against "talkers". India is a country of arm-chair critics and we want that to change. So what is so wrong or "Spam" about that? Also, self promotion would matter if we were trying to make money out of it - unfortunately, the concept of "free" doesn't seem to tell you that we are not interested in advertising-funds, considering there aren't any on our website.</div><div><br></div><div>So what exactly could our purpose be but to try and give people more knowledge about football and the way its played?</div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>So, all Indians need to be master of tactics and need to know how 10 yr old kids are trained??? What a joke...</div><div>Ever heard about a word FANDOM? let me remind u all this football buisness, moden coaching, and football education revolves around this word FANDOM, without it everythings a waste....its because ppl like us waste our time to discuss, scout, crib, go to stadium, fight, troll the game is alive otherwise all ur coaching stuff will be in drain....</div><div>Remember One thing -</div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">NEVER CRITICIZE A FAN FOR BEING A FAN</font></b></div>