Prashant Agarwal, President Delhi Dynamos FC, said, ‘We are proud to launch our first academy in Sonepat as part of our campaign to develop the game in North India. It’s our fundamental responsibility to identify and nurture the local talent at young age by providing them the top quality infrastructure with an idea is to see Indian football progress. We will soon be launching multiple academies in North India with an elite academy in Greater Noida which would be up and running by August this year. We are also opening up an elite residential academy with world class facilities and infrastructure in Ekana, Lucknow later this year.’
Here is how the youth development cycle of ISL teams go.
1. Pre-ISL build up about how they have huge plans 2. ISL is in and its highly competitive, can we talk about YDP after the season please! 3. You know we talked about our plans already? Yeah, we are gonna work that out in detail in the off season 4. REPEAT Step 1 -3
Surprised how casually they use terms like "elite academy" "multiple academies" If they are serious they should open only one.. Also all these academies are sham. These are tie-ups with schools which have a big ground and swimming pool etc. This thing is Sonepat is also a paid one.. Delhi will just have some jerseys and balls there and call it an academy.. Everything is just PR
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1. Pre-ISL build up about how they have huge plans
2. ISL is in and its highly competitive, can we talk about YDP after the season please!
3. You know we talked about our plans already? Yeah, we are gonna work that out in detail in the off season
4. REPEAT Step 1 -3
If they are serious they should open only one.. Also all these academies are sham. These are tie-ups with schools which have a big ground and swimming pool etc. This thing is Sonepat is also a paid one.. Delhi will just have some jerseys and balls there and call it an academy.. Everything is just PR
If Ddfc do start this academy by july it would be great and hopefully other teams would follow suit.