Cuttack: All India Football Federation launched its first Referee\u2019s Academy at the Barabati Complex in Cuttack on Saturday (May 4, 2013). The Academy is the first of the \u201ctargeted nine Refereeing Academies\u201d planned by the AIFF. Asirbad Behera, Honorary Secretary of Orissa Olympic Association, was present on the occasion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very significant step undertaken by the AIFF. I\u2019m confident that the Academy will go a long way in improving the standard of Indian Referees,\u201d AIFF Kushal Das, said.<\/p>\n
Amit Ranjan Deb, the Chairman of the Referee\u2019s Board, AIFF felt, there can\u2019t be any \u201ccompromise on the quality as well as the quantity of Indian referees.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the Chairman of the Board, I had earlier launched the PFI. The Academy will cater to young referees and help them understand the match situation better. We need to begin from grassroots,\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n
\u201c15 boys and 5 girls, all from Orissa will attend the one-year curriculum,\u201d Goutam Kar, Head of Referees, AIFF informed. \u201cPresently, all of them are Category 4 and Category 5 Referees,\u201d he added. \u201cWe stay grateful to the Orissa Football Association for their cooperation and allowing us to use the facilities at the Barabati Stadium Complex.\u201d<\/p>\n
Such Academies are already in existence in many European and Asian countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be a Weekend Academy. Besides theoretical classes, there would also be practical training, game exposure, interactive sessions, fitness tests, lessons on nutrition, diet and sports psychology,\u201d Kar, further informed. \u201cThe Refereeing fraternity is very concerned about the evils of Match fixing which has hit World Football hard. Hence, it will also be an additional subject.\u201d
The Instructors, all of them Futuro III trained, will be from India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cuttack: All India Football Federation launched its first Referee\u2019s Academy at the Barabati Complex in Cuttack on Saturday (May 4, 2013). The Academy is the first of the \u201ctargeted nine Refereeing Academies\u201d planned by the AIFF. Asirbad Behera, Honorary Secretary of Orissa Olympic Association, was present on the occasion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very significant step undertaken by the AIFF. I\u2019m confident that the Academy will go a long way in improving the standard of Indian Referees,\u201d AIFF Kushal Das, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n