Hilal Parray To Train Mumbai FC For One Month
ABID KHAN
Srinagar, Jan 9: Not only footballers of the valley are making a mark in the national football arena but the coaches too, are regarded high by renowned clubs of India. The National Institute of Coaching, Patiala and AFC qualified coach, Hilal Ahmad Parry, has been selected by the Mumbai Football Club for one month’s internship during which he will be involved in training the players. The Mumbai FC club has sent a letter to the chairman sports board JK bank where Hilal works as assistant coach. He is presently posted at Branch office Pattan, Varmul. The letter reads, “As part of our development programme for budding coaches, we are pleased to inform you that we have selected Hilal Ahmad Parray, a qualified NIS and AFC ‘C’ on internship with Mumbai Football Club, Mumbai. The internship will offer exposure to a professional I-league club (Mumbai) FC which will go a long way to help him enrich his knowledge which he can implement at your end.” Hilal said that the club has selected him after monitoring his performance as part of JK bank coach and also on the basis of AFC ‘C’ results. “I had brief meeting with Mumbai FC on my previous visit to Mumbai when I was a part of JK Bank team,” he said. “They were impressed with me and I told them that I was runner-up in AFC ‘C’ course at the all India level, they were highly impressed and asked for my resume.” He said that the duration of the internship would be one month: “If they are impressed by my performance and knowledge, they will extend it,” he said. “Apart from learning latest techniques involved in professional coaching, I will also be imparting knowledge to the Mumbai FC players.” “I am really happy that the club has selected me for the internship and I would try to impress them with my performance,” he said. “During this stint I will learn lot of things that are involved in professional football coaching of I-league level and will try to use that back home.” He said that most impressing part of the internship would be learning how to make strategies for each game and how to employ them to perfection on the field. “We don’t make strategy for matches,” he said. “With Mumbai FC I will try to learn how they do it in the professional tournament like I-league. The stint will help me to to groom young footballers.” Mumbai FC is an Indian football club based in Mumbai. Their home ground is the Thakur College ground in Kandivali. It was launched in 2007 by the Essel Group which also launched the India Cricket League and they have roped in big names, such as manager, Henry Menezes and India international striker, Abhishek Yadav. The club was promoted from second division to A-Division in I-League to compete with teams like Mohan Bagan, East Bengal, Dempo in just one year. They upset both Mohan Bagan and East Bengal at Kolkata beating them comprehensively. The club managed to get the services of David Booth, an experienced international coach who has earlier been the National coach of Myanmar and Brunei. He also worked in the UK, Ghana, Vietnam, Thailand and Maldives. He is also a qualified AFC instructor and has enjoyed prolonged stints with leading clubs. Hilal said that his one month stint under the guidance of David Booth will help him a lot. Hilal started his career with inter-school competitions and within a short span of time, he achieved many successes. He joined the YMCA club and won many major tournaments. Hilal was selected by the JK Bank in 1997 and continued to play for its team till 2003. In 2003, he went for NIS training and passed the course with A-grade. Since then he has been part of the JK Bank football team as assistant coach. He has also represented the state in Santosh Trophy tournament twice. Hilal was part of many major wins like Sikkim Gold Cup, II-Division National League, LG Cup and many other national and state level tournaments.
Srinagar, Jan 9: Not only footballers of the valley are making a mark in the national football arena but the coaches too, are regarded high by renowned clubs of India. The National Institute of Coaching, Patiala and AFC qualified coach, Hilal Ahmad Parry, has been selected by the Mumbai Football Club for one month’s internship during which he will be involved in training the players. The Mumbai FC club has sent a letter to the chairman sports board JK bank where Hilal works as assistant coach. He is presently posted at Branch office Pattan, Varmul. The letter reads, “As part of our development programme for budding coaches, we are pleased to inform you that we have selected Hilal Ahmad Parray, a qualified NIS and AFC ‘C’ on internship with Mumbai Football Club, Mumbai. The internship will offer exposure to a professional I-league club (Mumbai) FC which will go a long way to help him enrich his knowledge which he can implement at your end.” Hilal said that the club has selected him after monitoring his performance as part of JK bank coach and also on the basis of AFC ‘C’ results. “I had brief meeting with Mumbai FC on my previous visit to Mumbai when I was a part of JK Bank team,” he said. “They were impressed with me and I told them that I was runner-up in AFC ‘C’ course at the all India level, they were highly impressed and asked for my resume.” He said that the duration of the internship would be one month: “If they are impressed by my performance and knowledge, they will extend it,” he said. “Apart from learning latest techniques involved in professional coaching, I will also be imparting knowledge to the Mumbai FC players.” “I am really happy that the club has selected me for the internship and I would try to impress them with my performance,” he said. “During this stint I will learn lot of things that are involved in professional football coaching of I-league level and will try to use that back home.” He said that most impressing part of the internship would be learning how to make strategies for each game and how to employ them to perfection on the field. “We don’t make strategy for matches,” he said. “With Mumbai FC I will try to learn how they do it in the professional tournament like I-league. The stint will help me to to groom young footballers.” Mumbai FC is an Indian football club based in Mumbai. Their home ground is the Thakur College ground in Kandivali. It was launched in 2007 by the Essel Group which also launched the India Cricket League and they have roped in big names, such as manager, Henry Menezes and India international striker, Abhishek Yadav. The club was promoted from second division to A-Division in I-League to compete with teams like Mohan Bagan, East Bengal, Dempo in just one year. They upset both Mohan Bagan and East Bengal at Kolkata beating them comprehensively. The club managed to get the services of David Booth, an experienced international coach who has earlier been the National coach of Myanmar and Brunei. He also worked in the UK, Ghana, Vietnam, Thailand and Maldives. He is also a qualified AFC instructor and has enjoyed prolonged stints with leading clubs. Hilal said that his one month stint under the guidance of David Booth will help him a lot. Hilal started his career with inter-school competitions and within a short span of time, he achieved many successes. He joined the YMCA club and won many major tournaments. Hilal was selected by the JK Bank in 1997 and continued to play for its team till 2003. In 2003, he went for NIS training and passed the course with A-grade. Since then he has been part of the JK Bank football team as assistant coach. He has also represented the state in Santosh Trophy tournament twice. Hilal was part of many major wins like Sikkim Gold Cup, II-Division National League, LG Cup and many other national and state level tournaments.
published in greayter kashmir on january 10-2009 link : http://greaterkashmir.com/full_story.asp?Date=10_1_2009&ItemID=6&cat=4)
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