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The IYSA exists to promote soccer for all the children of
India, boys and girls, rich and poor and we have started
lots of schemes to help us fulfill our aims.
IYSA Soccer League
The IYSA Whirlpool Soccer League
started in 2001 has lived up to all the expectation that
we had for it. The league consists of 8 teams, who play
each other twice. The league runs from the first week in
November until March the following year. Located at the
Shri Ram School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, the league attracts
many spectators. The Parents, Managers, and Children have
contributed to making the first league of its kind in India,
an amazing success. The Shri Ram School and PTA got us off
to a wonderful start, and the League owes its existence
to the efforts of them, and the generosity of our sponsors,
Whirlpool Limited. This year we are expanding the league
to include over 20 teams and over 200 children.
Funding Status: Funding required September 2002. = Rs150,
000.
IYSA website
The IYSA website contains over 100 pages,
Discussion Boards, a Chat Room and other interactive features.
Web site Funding Status: Funding required IMMEDIATELY -
You can help us thru Advertisements and page sponsorship.
(Adverts can cost as little as Rs.10,000 per year). and/or
by becoming a IYSA Licensee. (Sports goods Manufacturers
and Service providers can apply for details of our attractive
IYSA Licensing Package, which includes page sponsorship,
strategically placed ads, and IYSA endorsement of their
products and services).
Soccer Sisters
In November 2001 we started 'girls
only' soccer sessions. We have 42 girls attend each week.
We had found that many girls want to play Soccer, but in
India girls are discriminated against. They also face the
problem of playing against boys who have been playing for
several years. The IYSA Soccer Sisters is a way of redressing
the balance. Our aim is to get the girls up to a standard
so that they can play in teams with, and against, boys of
their own age. We are sure that with proper coaching and
dedication on their part, the girls will be able to hold
their own with boys within a year.
Funding Status: Funding required to expand the scheme,
purchase training tops, and develop the first all girls
soccer team in Delhi. Two complete kit for soccer team with
printed logos = Rs.50, 000.
IYSA Soccer Exchange Schemes
The Bradford Exchange Scheme
Following several months of communications between the
Bradford City Authorities in the UK, and the IYSA, New Delhi,
a Soccer Exchange scheme has been agreed. .
It has been proposed that Bradford bring a Youth soccer
squad to India to engage in a programme of pre-arranged
football matches with various schools in northern India.
Another project will involve the sending of three trainee
soccer coaches from India to Bradford for advanced coaching
either with Bradford City Football Club and/or Bradford
Council's Recreation Division.
Funding Status: Funding/sponsorship required covering administering
travel arrangements and social/hospitality functions also
to advertise the initiative, plus some transportation costs.
In particular we need airfares to send the soccer coaches
to the UK for training. (Rs90, 000)
(Several Sponsors are being sort - Further details on request).
Youth Soccer Coaches to India
We have worked out partnership deals with our participating
schools to enable us to bring qualified Youth Soccer Coaches
from the UK and other European countries. Ideally the coaches
would come to India for the academic year. They will be
employed at a salary of between Rs15, 000 and Rs20, 000
per month. They will be given excellent free accommodation
and their return airfare will be paid.
We are seeking a female soccer coach for our Soccer Sisters
scheme, and one soccer coach for the under 10's.
Funding Status: Funding required for two return airfares
= Rs60, 000. Accommodation, and salary costs have been found.
Soccer Street
All Children, but particularly poor children, will be helped
to join India's 'Soccer Street' and participate in the playing
of football. Schemes will be aimed at the metro poor, and
the poor in towns and large villages throughout India. The
aim: to promote soccer, and develop the image of soccer
players and officials as caring people, dedicated to the
sport, and the poor. Schemes to bring football to the poor
of India are inexpensive, and easily organised in collaboration
with reputable Non-Government Organisations (NGO's).
In collaboration with a leading NGO working with 'Street
children' we are devising a regular weekly soccer sessions
for the children of that organisation. We will provide expertise,
training and coaching in puts and the NGO will provide the
space and volunteer manager's referees. In the long term
we will be seeking to merge the two initiatives so that
school children and street children may play the 'beautiful
game' together.
Funding Status:
This scheme is low cost and highly attractive to sponsors.
We are confident that sponsorship will be forthcoming. However,
it is important for the long-term health of these soccer
projects that we are not reliant on the whims or fashions
of individual corporate marketing departments. Long-term
sponsorship of our organisation and long term licensing
agreements with leading manufacturers are essential for
our work with the deprived.
The Super Soccer Academy
At present we have 240 children enrolled for out of school
coaching each week and 350 attending our coaching sessions
in school hours. We plan to increase these figures to 200
and 500 respectively in the next 12months.
Funding Status: These schemes are self-financing
Summer Soccer Adventure Camps at Saat-tal
Our Summer Soccer Adventure Camps with Wildrift are always
over subscribed,
and this year we plan to double the numbers.
See www.wildrift.com
The Full Sized Pitch we built at Saat-tal
Funding Status: This scheme is self-financing
FUTURE PLANSSchools Soccer Development Programme
The major problem facing youth soccer in Indian schools
with sports facilities is that there is no knowledge of
modern soccer, or modern soccer teaching methods or assessment.
The India Youth Soccer Association is producing a soccer
development programme for schools. This consists of a scheme
of work, syllabus, lesson plans, and a soccer assessment
schemes. The first year we will target 1100 prestigious
schools (Grades K-12) Within three years we plan to be an
ongoing resource for 3600 schools.
Funding will be required in 2003
Soccer Star Search Scheme
In the UK, Coca-Cola and the English FA take an active part
in developing youth soccer through a Soccer Star Search
Scheme. The scheme is designed to find the soccer stars
of the future and is directed at school age children from
7 to 16 years. In India there is every reason to believe
that a similar, but less expensive scheme, would be a wonderful
success. Our plan is to do this once we have our school
development programme in place.
Funding for this scheme will start in December 2003
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