It will then travel to six more cities before culminating with the best footballers being picked to travel and train with Scottish club Celtic, a media release said here today.
Thirty-two schools would fight it out in Bangalore to decide the champion school of the garden city who would later lock horns with five other champion schools from Delhi, Kolkata, Kerala (Kochi and Kozhikode), Mumbai and Goa in the inter-city finals to decide the winner of the MYFC.
The first leg of the MYFC is being conducted by Bangalore District Football Association. The matches would be played at the Bangalore Football Stadium.
The second inter-city challenge of the tournament was won by Pandua SBS High School, Kolkata, making it two in a row for the eastern city's schools, while Central Reserve Police Force High School, Delhi finished runner-up.
The winning schools from the six cities and their coaches will benefit from a four-day coaching camp to be conducted by a panel of visiting coaches from Celtic FC before the inter-city Challenge.
The same panel would then shortlist 22 to 24 players from the inter-city challenge to undergo an intensive four-day coaching clinic, where two to four of the best players will be picked to travel to Scotland and Celtic FC for further intensive training, the release added.
