FC Barcelona Camp comes to Bangalore

After being a huge success in the National Capital Region (New Delhi & Gurgaon), the FCBEscola in association with Conscient Football will start its second round of training camps in India in the Garden City of Bangalore in May 2012. Spanish giants FC Barcelona is one of the major European Football club to provide extensive training at grassroots level in India.

In total 180 participants will be trained at the Bangalore Football Stadium. The camp at Bangalore Football Stadium will be held from May 21 - 25, 2012 with two separate batches of 90 children training in the morning (7.30 to 10.30 am) and afternoon (3.30 to 6,30 pm). This will be a five days intensive coaching camp with 15 hours of training given to each participating child.

The training imparted at this camp will follow the same successful methodology as practiced by the first team of FC Barcelona with the likes of Messi, Iniesta, Xavi, etc. Scientifically developed, the training program is divided into three segments – Introduction, Pre-Training, and Training for children in the age groups of 6 to 17.

The camp will be headed by a coach from FCBEscola and he will be assisted by one more Spanish coach and six coaches from Conscient Football. The participants will be divided in following groups - Under-8, U-10, U-12, U-14 and U-17.

Announcing the Camp in Bangalore, Conscient Football Director Anupama Jain said, "It makes us very proud to extend our camps to Bengaluru. Bengaluru has unmatched passion for football and is precisely the reason why we extended the camps to Bengaluru before any other city. We hope to bring the best training methodologies from the world to India with the help of FCBEscola training camps."