Loyola High School crowned winners in Star Sports Young Heroes Goa final

Star Sports launched its latest sporting venture ‘Young Heroes’ presented by Parle and in association with IDBI Federal Life Insurance to handpick the 16 most talented football players from schools from 15 different cities. It is a 7 a side U-15 school football tournament.

Loyola High School was crowned as the Champions in the Goa leg of the Young Heroes tournament as they defeated St Teresa High School by 5-0 and qualified themselves for the National Finals.

In order to identify young talent the country’s largest student direct contact programme from the very grassroots through scouting program, Young Heroes completes its campaign in Goa where Aman Govekar (Don Bosco Panjim), Oscar D’Souza (OLPS, Cortalim), Akshat Adkonkar (Don Bosco Panjim) and Warren Pereire (Loyola HS) were selected by Mr. Brahmanand Sankhwalkar, (Ex- Indian Footballer and Arjuna Award Recipient) at the Agassaim Youth Club Football ground, Goa over the last two days.

They will be the part of 45 selected students who will be mentored by the specialized coaches.

All the 32 shortlisted schools were determined and displayed some enthusiastic talent. There were some standout performances by few teams’ like- Loyola High School, St Teresa High School, OLPS Cortalim, Don Bosco Panjim and Bal Bharati whose footballers played with passion, grit and determination as a unit. 32 selected schools from Goa were divided into 8 groups, where each school played three matches in the group stage followed by the knock-outs, semi-finals and the finals.

Mr. Brahmanand Sankhwalkar, (Ex-Indian Footballer and Arjuna Award Recipient), “The games we witnessed in last two days in Goa were thrilling and exhilarating. The young players are very passionate about the game. My best wishes to the selected boys from Goa, through the scouting process along with the team qualified for the next round. I would like to congratulate Young Heroes’ for taking up the initiative and promoting the game of football in the country.”

In its next destination- Pune, Young Heroes will continue the scouting program. Young Heroes is committed to elevate the level of football at the grassroots with the intent to give birth to the football heroes of future. The tournament will see over 100 days of activation programme across the participating schools. All through the tournament, around 45 boys will get selected to undergo a training camp, after which the best 16 will be handpicked by professional coaches to go on an international exposure trip to Spain.