Jalpaiguri gets football academy

Japaiguri, Nov 23 (Indianfootball.com-IBNS): The North Bengal town of Jaipalguri got its own football academy under a joint venture of the PCM Group and Mohun Bagan AC.
The academy will enable young talent from across North Bengal to get proper football training and ideally be groomed to become professional footballers.

Ths academy is the first of its kind in North Bengal, where a lot of talent lies untapped.

At a press conference on Friday PCM group Chairman Kamal Mittal and Mohun Bagan AC General Secretary Anjan Mitra informed the media that the spotting of talent for the academy would be done by celebrated football coaches and former national players.

The Academy was inaugurated yesterday with Pranab Nandy and Suklyan Ghosh Dastidar named as the Academy coaches.

Unlike the Mohun Bagan-SAIL Football Academy in Durgapur the PCM Mohun Bagan Football Academy in Jaipalguri will not be fully residential.

The boys to be trained would be in the age group of 16 to 19 years under a three year programme.