PIFA International
camps in India - (to
be announced) (1
Jul 2009)
PIFA
will shortly announce the date
& detail for their annual camps with foreign coaches in
India. Tentative venues for the camp are Bangalore &
Hyderabad during the Dasera break and Mumbai & Goa during
Diwali break. PIFA
have already conducted 19 such camps over the past 5 years.
PIFA gets additional time
slot at PDP (1
Jul 2009)PIFA
training will now be available on Tuesday 5-6pm & 6-7pm.
This is in addition to the 10am-12pm batches on Saturday &
Sunday at PDP, Nepeanasea Road, Mumbai
Advance Training Program for PIFA teams (1
Jul 2009)
PIFA will be launching an Advance
training program in Mumbai for boys and girls, born 1993 to
1998.
Selection
will be made by the academy coaches during normal training at the
centers from 3 & 12 July 2009. Only those children registered at
the academy will be eligible for this program.
The program will
begin on 1 August 2009.
Details of the advance training program will be informed to only
those selected.
 PIFA
students
become FA coaches (29 Jun
2009)
PIFA
students Aryamann Shah (17)
& Crish Shah (17) completed the FA Level 1 Certificate In Coaching Football
at the Inspire Academy in England.Both
boys finished in the top 4 of their class in their assessments
and have been asked to do their Level 2 immediately. The
boys are also certified in FA Child Protection and FA
Emergency First Aid. PIFA
welcomes these young lads as coaches into the academy.
 PIFA visit Old Trafford and Anfield,
2nd time
(23
Jun 2009)
PIFA
children trained at the Inspire Academy. They
visited Manchester United and Liverpool Stadium during the PIFA
Champions Tour to England, 14-23 June 2009.
The
team drew with Inter Union FC (3-3) in a friendly match. The
camp skills winner was Sanil Kelkar.
PIFA girls finish 5th in the MDFA Women's league
(23
Jun 2009)
PIFA girls
played for the PIFA-CYFC Women's team in the MDFA Womens league 2009-2010 for the first
time. There were 13 teams participating.
Most of
the girls were from the PIFA U-14 Maharashtra Team. The team
was
managed by Nirvan Shah, coached by Mr Chandra Kundan and assisted by Firmin D'souza
The team beat Kenkre 2-1
(Tavishi Pandey-2), Bandra Packers 1-0 (Natasha Merchant-1),
Sports Bandra 1-0 but lost to Sea View and Fr Agnel 0-1. The
team finished 3rd in their group.
 PIFA Bangalore summer camp
(29 May 2009)
PIFA conducted a summer football camp in Bangalore from 25-29 May 2009 at the
Railway Meadows ground, near Bangalore Station.
UEFA coach Nirvan Shah
and PIFA coach Olia Kanu conducted this very intensive camp.
Thirty one children
participated at this camp.
 PIFA
boys played for India U-13
(28 May 2009)
Three
boys associated with Premier India Football Academy (PIFA)
played for the AIFF Indian team at the AFC U 13 Festival held in IR
Iran from 17th to 23rd May 2009.
Hussain Vahanvaty is a PIFA student while Aryamann and Calvin are PIFA campers. All three boys
have featured for the Maharashtra U-13 team that won the
National Football Festival held earlier this year in
Jamshedpur.
India U-14
girls win
(6 May 2009)
Maharashtra
player and PIFA student Natasha Merchant played for the India U-14 girls
team that won the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) under-14 Girls' Football
Festival held at Sri Lanka from April 30 to May 5, 2009
Natasha
was the only girl selected from Maharashtra. The state
team had finished runners up at the AIFF National Football
Festival Tournament held in Chennai early this year.
PIFA
Champions Tour to England (6
May 2009)
PIFA children
got a surprise when England & ex
Liverpool striker Peter Crouch famous for his robotic goal
celebrations dropped in to meet them with his girl friend
Abby Clancy at the Inspire Academy training center. He
spent an hour with the children and gave them all
autographed memorabilia’s.
During this
10 day camp they trained at the Inspire Academy, visited
Old Trafford Stadium & Museum, Anfield Stadium &
Museum, watched an EPL match at City of Manchester Stadium -
Man City vs Blackburn and played friendly matches with local sides.
The skill's
contest was won by Aahant Singh, runner up was Vihan
Chadha, they are both students of the academy.
PIFA-CYFC U-17
played Inter Milan in South Africa
(30 Mar 2009)
PIFA-CYFC was invited to play the Gauteng Future Champions U-17 from
23 –
28 March 2009.
This
tour was fully sponsored and organised by m/s Cutting Edge Event
Pvt Ltd. The team was coached by PIFA Director Nirvan Shah.
The team did extremely well in
the entire tournament, they scored one past Inter Milan. The
tournament was won by Boca Juniors (Argentina), Esperance
FC (Tunisia) - 2nd and Inter Milan - 3rd.
South African Airways has
sponsored the air tickets. NIKE is the official playing kit for the team.
Please click on the link
to get details of the teams progress.
 ;
Midday : Mar 21  ;
DNA
: Mar 21 ;
Mumbai
Mirror : Mar
21, 2009
Maharashtra U-14
girls felicitated by the Governor
(3 Mar 2009)
The Maharashtra girls team that competed
at the AIFF Under-14 Football Festival held in Chennai from 23
December 2008 to 1 January 2009 and finished second was
felicitated by His Excellency S.C. Jamir, the Governor of
Maharashtra on 3rd March at the Cooperage Stadium.
This is the first
time in the history of Maharashtra football that a Maharashtra
team has finished at such a high rank.
Mr
Wali Mohammad (Asst Secretary of WIFA) announced a reward
of Rs 1 lakh for the team.
PIFA
Director Mrs Anjali Shah was Team Manager, while Nirvan was
the Maharashtra Coach.
 PIFA-CYFC U-19 win runners
up
(28 Feb 2009)
The young men of PIFA-CYFC U-19 team
lifted the runners up title in the Football Challenge 2009
Nine a side tournament organised by Bombay Muslim Sports Club
from 23-27 February 2009.
This young team
beat Indian Navy 4-2 in a tie breaker to play the final match
on 27 February 2009 at the YMCA Ground in Madanpura against the experienced men of
Union Bank,the team took 1-0 lead at half time to lose 1-3 in the second
half.
The PIFA-CYFC team Goal keeper Harshad
Meher (India U-16) won the best Goal Keeper and Prakash
K. won the Best Midfielder of the tournament.
 PIFA U-14 girls & boys friendly tour
to Kolhapur
(23 Feb
2009)
In order
to give the children the experience and exposure to play in different cities.
PIFA U-14 Elite team went on their first friendly tour to Kolhapur from 20-23
February 2009.
The entourage consisted of 14 girls, 15 boys
and 10 adults. The teams played 2 friendly matches at the
Shahu Maharaj Stadium in Kolhapur. 5,000 people came to watch
these matches.
PIFA
children report for India National
camps
(21 Feb 2009)
The only girl
selected from Maharashtra for the AIFF National girls U-14
camp to be held at SAI Bhopal from 5 March to 20 April 2009,
is a student from PIFA – Natasha Merchant.
All three boys selected from Maharasthra for the U-13 AIFF
National camp from 15 March
onwards are associated with PIFA. Hussain Vahanvaty - PIFA student, Aryamann S. and Calvin L. both PIFA campers.
Delhi captain, Sahib Thakar is also a PIFA camper, he has
been called for this camp.
Maharashtra DSO U-14 team lift third place
(25 Jan
2009)
The Maharashtra
U-14 boys team lifted the third place trophy at the
54th National
School Games football tournament 2008-09. Twenty two state
teams participated at this tournament organised by School
Game Federation of India (SGFI) hosted by the Govt of
Maharashtra, Dept of Sports & Youth Welfare.
PIFA Director Mr Nirvan Shah was appointed
Maharashtra team Coach
as
well as the National selector for the India school
team.
This
is the first time that Maharashtra has finished in the top
three of these tournaments.
 PIFA Director met Sepp Blatter
at FIFA HQ
(10 Nov 2008)
"India -The awakening of a sleeping giant." was the
topic of the seminar organised by IFA held at the FIFA HQ in
Zurich. PIFA Director Nirvan Shah was specially invited to
attend this event.
Prominent members of the football industry such as Sepp
Blatter (President FIFA), Peter Kenyon (Chelsea FC CEO), Franz
Beckenbauer (exe FIFA), Amit Bhatia (VC QPR), Umberto Gandini
(Dir AC Milan) just to name a few attended this seminar that
focused on India.
The
seminar was inaugurated by FIFA President Sepp Blatter. He
reiterated FIFA's commitment towards the development of
football in India thru Win India with India & AFC projects
- Vision India. FIFA would like to convert this cricket crazy
nation to football.
It
was evident that great interest was being shown by foreign
clubs to increase their fan base in India, especially with its
booming economy and large population.
Issues such as development football in India and
who is responsible were raised. It was unanimously agreed that
football in India lacked grounds, facilities, marketing,
media, coaches and most of all youth academies and these
needed to be developed soon. Everyone associated with Indian
football must do their bit to promote the game, just as PIFA
is doing in India.
The
question that remained unanswered was how foreign clubs
venturing into India would benefit Indian football.
"DREAM TO ASPIRE AND YOU WILL BE
INSPIRED TO ACHIEVE THOSE DREAMS" - Nirvan Shah
PIFA
International camp in India
(12 Nov 2008)
PIFA
organised camps with UEFA foreign coaches during the Dassera
and Diwali breaks in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai & Dehra
Dun this year. Over 200 children participated at these
camps.
Tribune
: Nov 4, 2008 ; Times Of India : Oct
8, 2008
PIFA-CYFC
will stay in the Mumbai Elite Division 2009-10
(25 Oct 2008)
Newly promoted PIFA-CYFC
played the MDFA Mumbai Elite League this year without a
sponsor.
This young team were tested at the
beginning when they lost to clubs like
ONGC & Central Railway. But soon recovered to shock Union
Bank (2008 Nadkarni Cup holders) who were extremely lucky to
tie 1-1. The team then went on to beat Maharashtra State
Police 3-2 & Mumbai Customs 2-1. The team also fielded the
youngest player in this Elite Division - Burges Master (16yr)
The team was once again coached &
co-managed by PIFA director, UEFA licensed Nirvan Shah.
The team finished 4th in their group league.
 Ask the coach ?
(29 Aug
2008)
Young Indian soccer players now have the
oppoutunity to interact with an UEFA licensed coach on Orkut.
If you have a question to ask with regard to
football training, then fire away and we will be more than
pleased to answer you.
 Support PIFA
(21 July 2008)
The academy has been in the forefront in the
development of football in Mumbai / Indian, with children from
the academy going on to play for their school, local clubs,
state and India.
Our men's team
have had great success by being promoted twice in the 2 years
of its formation. The team will play MDFA Elite Division and
it is our goal to play I league at the end of the 2008-09
season.
We are looking for individual and/or
corporate sponsors for this very successful team or to help
develop football in India through our "YOUNG STAR" program
which will help talented under priviledged children. Email us
at info@pifacademy.com
-
Times Of India article about the PIFA
Colaba Youngstar team. "GOAL ! Best foot forward"
PIFA boys played for AIFF India U-16
(10 Nov 2007)
Indian team
qualified for the AFC Championship qualifiers U-16 that was
held in Saudi Arabia. They will play the finals round with 15
other Asian teams in Uzbekistan at the U-16 AFC Championship
final held from October 4-19, 2008.
We are indeed proud
to have 2 boys from PIFA - Ajit Bhoir and Harshad Meher
playing for India
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