Sesa Football Academy starts own football school

Goa's Sesa Football Academy has launched the Sesa Football School for under-14 boys who will be trained at the Academy's own training facility in Sirsaim. The MD of Sesa Goa P.K. Mukherjee launched the new venture of the Sesa Football Academy yesterday under which they aim to find talent who in future could be inducted into their residential academy.

The first batch of the Sesa Football School would include 28 boys studying at schools in Bicholim, Thivim and Sirsaim close the SFA facility. The boys would get training twice a week for the next two years from SFA coaches and would go on to represent the SFA at Goa Football Association sanctioned tournaments.

The aim of the Sesa Football School is to find and train talent from a younger age to develop them into better footballers.

Currently the Sesa Football Academy has a senior team which plays in the I-League Division 2 and the Goa Professional League, while a junior side takes part in the Goa leagues besides age group tournaments in the state.

On the occasion of the Sesa Football School launch, Sesa Goa also felicitated Adil Ahmed Khan, an alumni of the Sesa Football Academy, who now plays for Sporting Clube de Goa and represented Team India at the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup in Nepal earlier this year. Adil was given a cheque of Rs 100,000 (1 lakh) as a token of appreciation for his achievements.