Source: Hueiyen News Service
New Delhi, June 09 2009:
Top English club Liverpool and Kickworldwide, a football development business firm, have come together to set up the Abhijit Kadam Football Development Centre, which was launched in Pune on Monday.
The centre, based on the campus of the Bharati Vidyapeeth University, is named after Abhijit Kadam, a football player killed in a car accident.
Students at the centre will be able to enrol into football related courses, which are to be delivered in partnership with some leading UK colleges.
The courses include coaching, refereeing, sports science, sports turf technology and football industry management.
Most of the curriculum will be delivered in Pune but students will be offered the chance to complete some of their studies in UK.
Courses in sports science, coaching and refereeing will start in September.
Other courses will begin in January.
Liverpool Commercial Director, Ian Ayre, said, "we always strive to find important partners and important opportunities in a market like India.
To get this right we have to invest for the long term and in the right areas.
This project brings football together with first class education and an ambition to feed the Indian game".