St. Britto's HS, Goa begin with a defeat in Mahindra Youth Football Challenge

St. Britto's High School, Goa, were thrashed by Pandua SBS High School, Kolkata 2-0 in day one of Mahindra Youth Football Challenge, inter-city tournament. The Kolkata boys were too fast for the Goa lads and didn't give them any opportunity to score.

The star players for kolkata were JayathMurmu-4th and Srimanth Pal-13th.

The best under-14 football players from the champion school teams of six cities will display their skills during the Inter-City Leg of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge 2011-2012, which will be played on the newly laid artificial turf of the Bangalore Football Stadium, Bangalore, under the aegis of the Bangalore District Football Association (BDFA), from April 19 to 24, 2012.

The foremost football playing school teams from the countryⳠmost football-passionate cities (Bangalore, Delhi, Goa, Kerala, Kolkata and Mumbai) will participate in this tournament that will decide the Champion School of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge. The six winning schools were identified through the Intra-City tournaments conducted in the six cities, involving the top schools from each city and touching a total of 250 schools.

Competition in the Inter-City Leg will be that much more intense, thanks to the special four-day coaching clinic, from April 15 to 18 that was conducted for the players from the six schools by coaches from Celtic Football Club. Academy coaches Mark Reid (Youth Academy Coach/Senior Football Development Officer), Jose Romero & Mark Tobin (Centre of Excellence coaches and Tom McKay (Development Centre Goalkeeping coach) were present at the four-day clinic to train the coaches and players of each of the six teams on individual skills, techniques and tactical aspects of the game.

The Mahindra Youth Football Challenge is the Mahindra GroupⳠcommitment to promote football at the grassroots level. The company has partnered with Scottish football giants, Celtic Football Club, who will take on the responsibility of training and developing young talent identified through the initiative. Also, as part of the initiative Celtic Football Club will be giving replica T-shirts to members of all the teams participating in the tournament.

This was announced by Mufaddal Choonia (Deputy G M, Corporate Strategy, Mahindra Group), at a press conference held at the Bangalore District Football Association on Wednesday, April 18. Also present on the occasion was P N Sankaran of Procam International, promoters of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge, the four coaches from Celtic Football Club and officials from the Bangalore District Football Association.