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Indore, 30 September 2015: Emerald Heights International School were crowned the Champions in the Indore leg of the Young Heroes tournament after they defeated Delhi International School by 1-0 and qualified for the National Finals.
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.
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 Indore where Adarsh Satwani (Choithram School), Shivang Grewal (Emerald Heights International School) and Sanidhya Bindal (Emerald Heights International School) were selected by ex-Iranian footballer and Head Mentor, Young Heroes, Jamshid Nassiri at the Emerald Heights International School, Indore 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 Emerald Heights International School and Delhi International School whose footballers played with passion, grit and determination as a unit. 32 selected schools from Indore 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.
Jamshid Nassiri said, “We witnessed some thrilling and exhilarating games in last two days in Indore. The young players played the game with enthusiasm, passion and sportsman spirit. My best wishes to the winning team along with the young footballers selected by the scouting process.
“The selected players from Indore are very passionate about the game and are equally talented to perform better for the country, in days to come.”
In its next destination – Goa – 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.
