Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 24 (ANI): To begin India’s Legendary soccer participant Pradip Kumar Banerjee’s delivery anniversary, the All India Football Federation marked AIFF Grassroots Day on Friday on the AIFF NCE in Kolkata, as an initiative to encourage grassroots participation in soccer.
Under the BlueCubs program, over 150 youngsters from totally different age teams participated the within the PK Banerjee Rolling Trophy.
AIFF shared the photographs on their Twitter deal with.
As soccer in India has modified, advanced, and skilled highs and lows over nearly 9 a long time, the Federation had determined to mark the auspicious day of June 23 because the AIFF Grassroots Day, with the intention of bettering soccer from the bottom up.
The Federation had already introduced its intent to create a long-term plan for the event of soccer, Vision 2047. The Blue Cubs initiative that was launched earlier this 12 months, with the intention of making an intensive and strong grassroots construction throughout the nation, will play a key position in bettering the extent of soccer.
Born on June 23, 1936, in Jalpaiguri, Banerjee is broadly considered considered one of India’s biggest footballers and was India’s highest goalscorer with 4 objectives en path to Gold Medal within the 1962 Asian Games. In a glittering worldwide profession, Banerjee performed two Olympics (1956, 1960) and three Asian Games (1958, 1962, 1966) and was the primary footballer to obtain the celebrated Arjuna Award within the 12 months of its inception, 1961.
He was conferred with Padma Shri in 1990. In 1969, when FIFA ran its first teaching course in Japan below German coach Dettmar Cramer, often called the ‘Football Professor’ within the worldwide circuit, PK enrolled himself for the course and returned residence with a First-Class diploma. Among many first, he achieved as a coach was a soccer teaching course he ran on Doordarshan for a lot of weeks. He handed away on March 20, 2020, in Kolkata. (ANI)