In a first for Indian football, Mohun Bagan AC and the Assam Football Association today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Kolkata giants Maidan premises. The MoU was signed on behalf of Mohun Bagan by the clubs General Secretary Anjan Mitra and Ankur Dutta, the Honorary Secretary of the Assam FA and vice-President of the AIFF. The aim is to promote football, professional management and enable talented players to join the green-and-maroon Academy or senior team.
As part of the MOU, Mohun Bagan AC would help in the overall growth and development of Football in the Northeastern state of Assam by helping the Assam FA in various administrative and technical aspects of the Game. Mohun Bagan will send their technical experts to Guwahati from time to time on request from AFA in order to guide the Association in coaching camps of the Assam state teams. The club will also send its administration and management staff to Guwahati on request from AFA in order to conduct relevant workshops, seminars and courses. The club will also accommodate young talented footballers from Assam on recommendation of AFA for training them in their football academies as well as help AFA in having facilities available with the Club during the exposure trips of the different age groups from Assam.
The Assam FA on its part will extend all possible help to the club in their participation in exhibition matches and invitation tournaments organized under the jurisdiction of AFA, anywhere in Assam. AFA will assist the club in the recruitment of talented footballers from the Northeast to the Academies and teams of the club. AFA will further extend all possible support to the club and to any of their visiting football teams or officials to Assam for any official work or for any sporting activities.
Mohun Bagan has agreed that during exposure trips of Assam state teams, they will help arrange friendly matches at Kolkata with their own club teams. In return the club would also send its different age-group teams to Assam for exposure trips and tournaments.
Both Mr. Mitra and Mr. Dutta expressed their happiness at this win-win association which is unique since never before has a club helped promote popularity and development of any specific sports discipline of another state. Both the Secretaries sincerely hoped that this tie-up would help accelerate overall growth of the game of Football in Assam as well as help spread the game to the grassroots in the various districts and to the remotest parts of Assam which would benefit both football in Assam and Indian football in the long run.
It surely sounds an encouraging project and hopefully it can be filled with life by both the sides.
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