PIFA at the Ecole Mondiale Christmas Carnival

Premier India Football Academy were invited by the Ecole Mondiale World School, Juhu to organise a football activity for the students at the Ecole Christmas Carnival held on 20 December 2011.



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PIFA Champions Tour 2012

PIFA have organised the best football camps to Europe over eight years, next one will be our 25th camp. We have had camps to AC Milan, Rome, Barcelona, Rangers, Manchester, Liverpool & London.

Over 500 children have participated in these camps some of whom have gone on to represent India, state and playing college football/soccer all over the world.

The camps are intense and fun, with tours to the best football club stadiums, watch a Premiership game, train like Premiership academy players, play a local team, an opportunity to be seen by scouts and if lucky meet players.

In 2012, we will go to England & Spain

1-9 May 2012 : Barcelona, La Liga Match with Nou Camp Tour

7-15 May 2012 : Manchester, EPL Match with LFC & Man Utd Stadium Tour

10-18 Jun 2012 : Liverpool Academy, Alton Towers with LFC & Man Utd Tour

22-30 Jun 2012 : Barcelona, Amusement Park with Nou Camp Tour

Email for details : camps@pifa.co.in

Web Page : http://pifa.co.in/camp.php?page_id=24

PIFA Colaba FC are runners up of Abhijit Kadam Memorial Shield

PIFA Colaba FC team are Runners UP of the Abhijit Kadam Memorial Shield losing on penalties to the host and organising Pune team. 0-0 (5-4).

In the semifinals they beat Rabbani FC (Nagpur) 1-1 (5-4) (Vicent).Quarter fianls - Pune's Thunder Catz 6-1 (George 2, Manick, Jeevan, Sam & Ramakant. Man of the Match George).

Earlier they kicked off their campaign with a 1-0 win over Pune FC A on 9 December to enter the quarter finals. (Goal Scored by Manik, Man Of the Match was Sushil.)

Children's league kicks off in Mumbai

Phoenix Sports & Leisure Group (PSL) a division of Imkemex kicked off the Junior Football Champions - the first professional league for children 5-12 years at the Western Railway Ground in Mumbai.


Twenty four teams including three NGO teams of "PIFA Foundation for the benefit of sports" participated in this 10 week league to be played every Saturday morning. 


Two hundred children competed in 4 age groups League 1 had 5-6 year old's, League 2 had 7 to 8 year old's, League 3 had 9 to 10 year old's and League 4 had 11 to 12 year old's. The league had a mix of celebrity kids as well as under privileged children.


Apart from playing once a week the children will also be trained by Premier India Football Academy (PIFA) once a week at any of the centers closest to the participants. 


Each team was kitted with an Adidas t-shirt & short's.


http://www.jfcleague.com/

A Football tournament to save Colaba back garden.

Aadhar Pratisthan organised a children’s football tournament to help save the Colaba backgarden from redevelopment.

The Colaba backgarden has been the hub for South Mumbai and Indian football, it has produced top Club, National & International football players like International player Mr Bandya Kakade to the recent youth International player Harshad Meher, it is also home to FIFA referee Walter Pereira .

The garden is a grass root training facility for schools such as Campion, St Annes, Fort Convent, Holy Name, Scholar, Colaba Municipal School as well as  some clubs  the famous one being PIFA Colaba FC. It is place for children to come together, socialise and enjoy their play time in a safe and healthy environment.

The Colaba Junior Football Championship tournament which was supported by PIFA Colaba FC had over 1000 children either to participate or watch these 32 matches. Thirty two teams had registered for the 9 a side knock out format tournament. The sole purpose of this tournament was to bring about awareness of the potential threat of plans to build a swimming pool and parking lot in the only public football garden in Colaba area.

The final match was played between PIFA Colaba FC and Oscar Foundation had dignitaries such as Mr Bandiya Kakade, Mr Souter Vaz (WIFA – Hon Sec), Mr Surinder Karkera (Founder of Bipin Memorial), Mr Akhil Ansari, Mr Faroukh Ahmed, Arshad Hussain and Shabbirbhai all football personalities.

PIFA Colaba FC won the tournament beating Oscar Foundation 2-0. Campion lifted the third place.

Pratamesh Kasare from PIFA Colaba team was adjudged the Best Player of the tournament, he won a cycle. The other winners were Rahul Pandey – Best Defender, Akash Jadhav – Best Striker, Arjun Mehra – Best Midfielder, Virdhan Chavan – best Goal Keeper, all of them won a mobile phone.

Mr Krishan Pawle, President of Aadhar Pratistan and the organiser of the Colaba Junior Football Championship 2011 had this to say “The Colaba back garden is a community football centre for developing and nurturing young football players, many of them go onto play for the state and country and many make a livelihood playing for clubs.  It is the only public football ground in the Colaba area, we have to save the Colaba back garden”

PIFA International Camp at Unison world School, Dehra Dun

PIFA concluded their PIFA International Camp in India with a camp at an all girls school - Unison World School in Dehra Dun from 3-6 November 2011

Skills Winner was Krishna Rathore with 630 points.

Junior Football Champions League tie up with PIFA

JFC has appointed PIFA as the training partner.

The Junior Football Championship, is a Football League for children (boys & girls) between 5yrs to 12 yrs in Mumbai. The league will be played at the Western Railways Sports Association, opposite Phoenix Mill at Mahalaxmi.

There will be four Leagues:

League 1 –  5 to 6yrs

League 2 –  7 to 8yrs

League 3 –  9 to 10yrs

League 4 –  11 to 12 yrs.

Each league will have 6 teams and the teams will play each other in a double header.  The matches will be played only on Saturdays and every team will play upto 10 matches over 10 Saturdays.

For the Event and League Details and also to Register you will have to go on to www.jfcleague.com , for registration a parent can also call Anjana on 022-24157984 between 9am and 5pm.

PIFA students can avail of special discount by showing PIFA identity card.  

The Premier Football League for children 5-12 yrs has been postponed to March 2012.

PIFA International Camp in Mumbai

Coach James Quinn (UEFA B) & Conor Hannah flew in from Manchester to conduct a four day intensive football camp with focus on the 4 techniques of football - Passing, Shooting, Control & Dribbling.

Forty children got a chance to train like Premiership Academy players in England. The children were informed about the latest Nutrition trends being followed in Europe.


The skills winner for the camp was Ritwik Dutta with 740 points. This year the students shooting power were recorded the fastest shot was 89 kmph by Rohaan Vardhan.

This was PIFA's 29th Camp in India in 8 years. Camps were held in Goa, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi & Dehra Dun.

Nike were the Official Footballs.

www.pifa.co.in

PIFA Colaba FC beat Kenkre FC in MDFA Elite League Round 1

PIFA Colaba FC runners up of Nadkarni Cup 2011

PIFA Colaba FC's first attempt in the Nadkarni Cup resulted in the team reaching the finals and finishing runners up to I league club - Mumbai FC.

Sundays will never be the same again.

Premier India Football Academy (PIFA) is back again with a football league for children.

The Premier Football League (PFL) is a 7 a side children’s Sunday league for boys and girls aged 5 to 15 years. This league will be played over 8 weeks. 

AGE GROUP CATEGORIES
MIDGETS Age 5 - 6 years - born in 2005 or 2006
SUB JUNIORS Age 7 - 8 years - born in 2003 or 2004
JUNIORS Age 9 - 10 years - born in 2002 or 2001
INTERMEDIATES Age 11 - 12 years - born in 1999 or 2000
SENIORS Age 13 - 15 years - born in 1996, 1997 or 1998

The Sunday morning league will initially be held at a location in South Mumbai.  It is an opportunity for children of all abilities to participate in a football tournament. Children are encouraged to form teams made up of players from their building society, locality, community or school. The children will have the option to train on Saturdays for the league.

The PFL is schedule to kick off on 19 November 2011 with the first training session on Saturday, 18 November 2011.

The league will have all the elements of the beautiful game competition, skills, teamwork, mentoring and humility.

Two unique features of this league are;

The Parent Coach

Parents looking at spending quality time with their children doing something that interests both. Parents will manage and coach their child’s team.

Football Buddy

Each team  will consist of 2 underprivileged children from the PIFA community project. The aim of PFL is to demonstrate to children the charm of the beautiful game where everyone is equal on the field and the only language spoken is that of Football.

In this edition, there will be 5 age groups, each age group having 8 teams. Each team will play one another over seven weeks. The 8^th week will decide the winners between the top 2 teams and prizes will be awarded to the finalists and a best player awards. The best player of the league will win a free trip to UK.

The PFL will start on November 19^th with the first training session on Saturday 12^th November.

Nike will be the official football for the league. Winners will get a gift set from Nike and get once a week free training at any one of the PIFA centres for one year. Talented players will be scouted for the various PIFA teams.

PIFA's efforts in India have been recognized by Asian Football Confederacy (AFC) Deputy General Secretary - Dato Paul Mony Samuel, An excerpt from the letter- "I thank you for your work for football in India and encourage you to support and follow the football development path set out in Vision India"

It is an ideal event for corporate companies  to associate with this annual event.

NIKE will be the official footballs.

More info can be obtained on the website http://www.pfleague.in

or contact 98202 68365

The PIFA Way - Basic Technique to kick when passing the ball

English coaches to conduct football camps in India.

Premier India Football Academy (PIFA) will be bringing UEFA/FA coaches for the 8th year in a row to India to conduct football training camps.

Coach James Qiunn & Coach Connor Hannah will be flying in from Manchester to conduct training similar to premiership academies in Europe. Both these licensed coaches from England will conduct training session for Premier India Football Academy (PIFA).

PIFA International camps will be held in Mumbai, Dehra Dun and Amritsar.

• · 27 October to 30 October at Karnataka Football Ground, Churchgate, Mumbai.
• · 3 November to 6 November at Unison World School, Dehradun.
• · 10 November to 13 November at University Ground, Amritsar.

The camps are open to boys & girls of all skill abilities, 10-18 years of age.

The camps are of four days duration. Each day is dedicated to one of the four basic techniques of football - Shooting, Dribbling, Passing & Control. Each technique will culminate in a skills test. Fitness test will be conducted like those conducted at Premiership academies, to make the children aware of the standards expected to play top flight football.

Over 1500 children have attended the 28 PIFA international camps held in the past 7 years. Camps have been held in Goa, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune & Delhi.

The camps have helped India U-16 Vice Captain Kunashni Parikh develop her game. Other India youth players Aryaman Sethi, Hussain Vahanvathy, Natasha Merchant have attended the PIFA International camps. PIFA guarantees improvement.

All the participants have performed well and helped their school to win matches. Some of the participants have been selected to play for "I" league U-15 team.

Nike will be the official football for the camp and the skill's contest winners get a gift set from Nike as well as get once a week free training at any one of the PIFA centres for one year. Talented players will be scouted for the various PIFA teams.

PIFA's efforts in India have been recognized by Asian Football Confederacy (AFC) Deputy General Secretary - Dato Paul Mony Samuel, An excerpt from the letter- "I thank you for your work for football in India and encourage you to support and follow the football development path set out in Vision India"

It is an ideal event for companies to associate with this annual event.

More info can be obtained on the website www.pifa.co.in or contact 98202 68365

About PIFA

PIFA is dedicated to the development of Indian football since 2003. With their international alliances with football academies in UK and Europe, PIFA brings the latest methods of football training being used in youth academies the world over. With a vision to qualify for the FIFA World Cup of 2022, PIFA has started developing children by teaching the right techniques of playing football. PIFA Director Nirvan Shah is a UEFA/AFC licensed coach and has successfully completed the Coaches Instructor course conducted by the AIFF. 

PIFA has an I-league 2nd division team PIFA Colaba FC, the team created history by being an academy based club finishing 3rd in the Mumbai Elite MDFA league.