SportsMeet request the pleasure of your company at the first session of 2013 SportsMeet  Bangalore.

We are having a panel discussion this time, ‘Disrupted Derby, a Verdict, and the Beautiful Game’ – one of the world’s most popular and lasting football rivalries, about Mohun Bagan vs East Bengal derby fiasco on December 9, 2012 and the decision thereafter.
Our sole contention of this discussion is how the decision would impact Indian football – right from the century-old club and their rival club, the players, millions of supporters across the globe, to the sponsors and advertisers.

Sports Meet  Bangalore January 2013

Agenda:

2 pm -2.30 pm: Registration and Networking
2.30 pm – 2.45 pm: Demo from one sports company
2:45 pm – 4 pm: Disrupted Derby, a Verdict, and the Beautiful Game a Panel discussion One

The panel

- S ShreeKumar, senior sports journalist
- Raman Vijayan, former India International, Coach, and East Bengal player
- Noel Wilson, former India International and Mohun Bagan player and captain

Additional input from the representatives of the Club Fans’ Association

4 pm -4 30: Snacks and Networking

Date: 2 pm, Saturday, January 19, 2013

Venue: Christ University Bangalore

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SportMeet is ready with the November event – a monthly meet up for the sports professionals, sports business, and enthusiasts of Indian sports.

The experts coming to share and deliver on what’s next for Indian Sports by looking beyond cricket, are as follows:

Premdeep Gangadharan – co-founder of a sports tourism firm, Fans on Stands Sports Pvt Ltd on his recent experience of mega event F1 Indian Grand Prix.

Raman Vijayan – former Indian international football player and coach on setting up football academy to the lesser known areas.

SportMeet also have a demo session from Bangalore Youth Football League (BYFL), a football academy imparting football training to the youngsters and Naveen Ningaiah, sharing his experience of recently held International Sports Summit – Turf2012.

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Hello Sports Enthusiasts,

Arjuna Awardee Reeth Abraham on Giving back to sports

The September edition of SportsMeet witnessed intriguing talks by Arjuna awardee Reeth Abraham, representatives from EduSports, b’Twin – Decathlon, and The Fans of Hockey.

Winner of several medals in both national and international level, athlete Reeth Abraham, ventured into the main agenda of this edition – Giving back to sports. She, very articulately explained the need of former sportsperson or people with proper knowledge and experience of sports to occupy important positions in the sports organizations. She went on to explain that due to several reasons, this has not been the case in India. Some of these reasons stem from the fact that majority of Indian sportsmen were ‘created’ from poor or rural background as they saw sports as an opportunity to get a government job and now due to their lack of education and exposure, they hesitate to get into administration jobs.

Reeth is a part of Clean Sports India movement, which aims to create an environment wherein former sportsperson can manage local level clubs, state level associations and national level federations. She emphasized on the fact that most of the bureaucrats and politicians who run sports bodies generally tend to have very limited knowledge of sports and often turns out to be corrupt. Clean Sports India comes as a unique forum where all Indian sportsperson can come together and raise their voice.

Reeth added that one needs to have passion for sports and not necessarily be a top level sportsperson to contribute for the development of sports in our country. She also talked about inculcating a sporting culture in India, making physical exercise a habit; a way to keep us fit.

Earlier, the event was started by Dr. Gautam Mukherjee, from EduSports, a company which aims to provide a more holistic education by involving school students into physical education in a more structured and planned way. The basic mantra of the company is to make sports and Physical Education (PE) accessible to all kids, not necessarily to make them champions in sports, but rather to make them champions in life. He explained how sports not only keeps the body fit, but also imbibes lessons of life like leadership, teamwork, and so on.

The current physical education programs in schools are inadequate to provide opportunities for all kids and lack the systematic assessment tools like in the case of other subjects. The focus is on developing champions and medal winners, which sidelines non-exceptional but interested kids. EduSports’ curriculum makes sure that any kid who is interested in participation can participate. Furthermore, he emphasized that assessment of PE teachers should not only be on how many champions they have produced but also on how many kids have they been able to involve into sports. With more involvement into sports we can hope to have a fitter and healthier generation.

21 year old Rachan Singh gave a very energetic talk about the wide array of cycle services from brand b’Twin and the other range of products available in Decathlon. Given that Bangalore has now become a cycling hub and interest in cycling is growing, he focused his talk mainly on cycling and showed variety of cycles provided by them. The main advantage of Decathlon is that they recommend the products based

on need and purpose, furthermore, one can try and test them first and only then proceed to buy. He also mentioned about the opportunities of working in Decathlon, where passion for sports is the chief criteria, certificates hardly matter.

The last talk was by Manoj Mahala who runs a hockey fan website, thefansofhockey.com. Manoj, a research student, with help of friends and well-wishers has developed this website, which not only provides news of Indian hockey events but also directly covers some of the hockey events.  He told about his website and how the current form of the website has evolved from its initial humble beginnings. Also, The Fans of Hockey provides a huge collection of fantastic photographs, some of which he displayed during his presentation.

In between the talks, SportsMeet’s Naveen Ningaiah, kept on chipping in with interesting and useful information about the speakers as well as some of the happenings around. He introduced run Arun run, a unique ultra-distance running initiative by 43 year old Arun Bhradwaj, aiming to run from Kargil to Kanyakumari in 60 days, starting from October 1 2012.

SportsMeet also compiled a presentation on job opportunities in sports, aiming to benefit some section of the audience. After the talks, the networking session commenced over tea and snacks.

To promote and learn about Indian Sports, we are coming up with SportsMeet-Bangalore september, an informal monthly meet up for the sports professionals, sports businesses, and students aspiring for a career in Sports.

Agenda for September Edition

Theme : ”Giving back to Sports”

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – Registration and Networking

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM – Demo from “EduSports” – by Gautam

2:45 PM – 3:30 PM – “Giving back to Sports “- Reeth Abraham (International Athlete, Arjuna Award winner)
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM – Demo from “Bangalore Youth Football League” – By Adhip Bhandary
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM – Demo from “The Fans of Hockey” – By Manoj Mahala
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Snacks & Networking.

Date: Saturday, Septmeber 15th , 2012, 2:15 pm
Venue: Christ College, Hosur Road, Bangalore – 560029
We Invite all Sports Enthusiasts.

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Thanks
Naveen Ningaiah
On Behalf of SPorts meet

Third edition of SportsMeet was a huge success – most engaging and attended edition so far. The SportsMeet August event of How to kick start your sports venture, attracted a number of entrepreneurs, management students, and sports enthusiasts.

Vishal Gupta used his venture Sports365 as a model to give the audience an insight about How to kick start your sports venture. With a vision of building and fostering the spirit of sports and fitness activities in the country, Sports365 aims in making sports viable and sustainable for the masses.

As an e-commerce venture for sports equipments, consumables, and infrastructure, Vishal Gupta started Sports365 along with Tennis maestro Mahesh Bhupathi as Director, and Chandra Sekhar Reddy. However, with time they also started offline marketing.

One of their specialties includes ‘consultative selling’ where the products are provided to the consumer after a discussion on their requirements. Sports365 is aiming high with a long term goal of providing a support system for young and unknown talents and roping in some popular sporting figures in the company.

Earlier, the event kickstarted with TENVIC representative Shruti Venkat. TENVIC, co-founded in 2011 by legendary cricketer Anil Kumble, strategist and entrepreneur Dinesh Kumble, and international Table Tennis player Vasanth Bharadwaj, with a vision to develop a sporting ecosystem and culture in India, whereby every Indian is involved in sports.

They have initiated work at multiple levels:

 Grassroot – reaching out and training young talents in schools
Lessons from Sports – using the knowledge gained from sportsmen to train people of other professions
Sports branding – finding new avenues to reach customers and brand sportsmen) and Sports retail

At the moment they have focused on Cricket, Table Tennis, Chess and Badminton. At grassroot level, they have been able to start programs in various schools, mainly in Southern India and NCR. The programs contents are created by reputed players for each disciplines and kids who have shown promise are given opportunities of intensive training with their coaches to take their talent to the next level.

They have also used the experience of sportsmen in areas like ‘pressure handling’ and conducted training programs for people of different professions. TENVIC harbors in-house coaches, mentors and psychologists for their programs.

Sports meet happens on every 3rd Saturday of the month at Christ University, Bangalore.

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To promote and learn about Indian Sports, we are coming up with SportsMeet-Bangalore August, an informal monthly meet up for the sports professionals, sports businesses, and students aspiring for a career in Sports.