New Delhi: The Haryana Football Association (HFA) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for strategic cooperation with the Dutch Haryana Foundation (DHF) and FICCI to establish a Centre of Excellence for Soccer (CoES) in Haryana as also to develop, operate and manage football centers and infrastructures throughout the state.
In terms of the MoU, for the proposed Centre of Excellence, DHF will establish a consortium of Dutch sports organizations which have sports offering focused on a long term football development program, such as ADO Den Haag, Royal Dutch Football Association, Johan Cryuff Institute etc.
The MoU was signed in Federation House by Mr. Oedith N Jaharia, President, DHF; Dr. Amit Mitra, Secretary General, FICCI and Mr. Deepender S Hooda, President, HFA. The three parties to the MoU have agreed that the selection of probables will be done from various sources including the State Sports and Physical Aptitude Test (SPAT) program which consists a ready database of 46000 athletes in various age groups.
It is agreed between parties that a two weeks pilot program will be conducted to decide the further technical and infrastructural requirements of Haryana State to develop the said CoES plans. Thereafter, HFA and FICCI will invite the technical staff and youth players of ADO The Hague to Haryana. During the two weeks the technical staff of ADO will make further analysis and give advice to the alliance.
FICCI will create awareness about the need of for increasing corporate participation in sports as sponsors at a more fundamental level that can bring about a critical difference in India's medal winning prospects. It will promote and market the concept of SPAT and PPP in sports development during its conferences/ events; coordinate with DHF and HFA to implement this concept; and facilitate greater interaction between industry and Government of Haryana to increase industrial participation in sports.
HFA will coordinate with the Haryana Government and on long term release provide stadium infrastructure required to operate the CoES, conduct all related surveys and collect all market information required for the project. It will also seek all necessary support from the State Government and make the project successful and will endeavor make CoES a Private Public
Partnership model.
DHF will bring in all necessary knowledge required to impart world class training and coaching towards the operations of the project. The participants in the Dutch Sports Consortium as coordinated by DHF will under commercial conditions provide the project with expertise and technical knowhow to create, plan, manage and operate the project. It will exclusively work
with HFA and vice versa in the field of football training & coaching and infrastructure management and development in the territory during the term of this MoU.
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