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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Nov 14 2014 | 5:30 PM IST
Health insurance company Apollo Munich co-sponsoring Indian Super League (ISL) team Atletico de Kolkata is planning a video to help young soccer enthusiasts to upgrade their skills.
Top international players of ATK as well as national stars would be part of the "let'suncomplicatefootball" video which would basically be a tutorial for young soccer enthusiasts, Apollo Munich Chief Executive Officer Antony Jacob told reporters during an interactive session here today.
"We will continue activities for promotion of the game beyond the ISL season, which ends in December," he said.
"We are producing this video on specific training programmes to help young footballers. We believe after seeing the international players in the video, youngsters will be benefited. They will learn how to do variety of things on the soccer field which could be as basic as taking a corner kick, shooting a penalty kick, to a kind of warm up exercises or to learn how to create a wonderful pass," Jacob said.
"A number of ideas are being generated in terms of videos which will hopefully be tutorials for young soccer players to hone their skills," he said.
On how to reach young footballers, Jacob said "We will initially communicate directly with schools and institutions when our let'suncomplicatefootball videos are ready and hopefully the word will spread on its own."
"We hope to reach the younger people particularly in and around Kolkata on the back of the activities which Atletico De Kolkata will be engaged in with schools in this region," Jacob said.
With the shooting for the videos starting tomorrow at the Salt Lake Stadium, Apollo Munich officials said the video could be expected by March next.

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First Published: Nov 14 2014 | 5:30 PM IST

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