Indian Super League side Delhi Dynamos FC today announced the launch of a junior Inter-School Championship in the National Capital Region as part of its initiative to take football to grassroot level.
The initiative will begin with the Junior Dynamos Inter-School Championship, a 7-a-side football tournament, to be played in four zones of Delhi/NCR across three different age categories (U-12, U-14 and U-17).
Under this programme, Delhi Dynamos will organise training camps and inter-school tournaments to identify and nurture talent, besides providing necessary platform to the talented young children across Delhi/NCR and the North region.
The first leg of the junior championship will be played from August 19-22 at Jaypee Sports Complex, Greater Noida and Ajanta Public School, Gurgaon. It will feature the top schools from East Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida and Gurgaon.
A week later, action will shift to DDA Sports Complex, Vasant Kunj and Ganga International School as the young prodigies from schools of Central, South, North and West Delhi will showcase their football skills.
The zonal champions of the Junior Dynamos Inter-School Championship would then get the opportunity to play at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium training ground as they face each other in a knockout format to seize the ultimate crown -- The Junior Dynamos School Champion.
The Junior Dynamos scouts will constantly analyse their performance to select the best 100 players (U-14 and U-17) to be trained under the Junior Dynamos coaches for the next two months on full scholarship. These young players will then play in the Junior Dynamos Elite League at JLN Stadium training ground during ISL match days.
Based on the performance, scouts would then select the top 30 players (U-14) who would form the Delhi Dynamos youth team. The chosen stars will undergo a six-month long training program under the Junior Dynamos coaches on full scholarship. These players will represent Delhi Dynamos in Youth Leagues across India.
The club will also organise Junior Dynamos Inter-School City Championship in Chandigarh, Dehradun, Jaipur and Kanpur in North India. These inter-school championships will be played in September, October and November.
