Deccan Chronicle

Fateh Hyderabad, PEG join hands

- DC CORRESPOND­ENT

Fateh Hyderabad, the second division I-League football club, announced a joint venture partnershi­p with the UK’s sports educators Premier Education Group (PEG) to deliver grassroots sports and performing arts education activities in India.

Under the JV, PEG will provide technology, systems, personnel and various other expertise to Fateh Hyderabad.

PEG employs over 1,000 qualified profession­als and last year their activities received over 9 million visits. PEG is a highly respected UK's sports-coaching and education brand with 84 franchisee­s and 1,000 coaches and tutors around the UK.

Yogesh Maurya, Technical and Sporting Director of Fateh Hyderabad said “Premier Education Group is the leading provider of various physical education programs in schools in the UK and has been expanding its footprint internatio­nally. We are thrilled that they have chosen to partner with Fateh Hyderabad to commence their India journey.

Improving grassroots opportunit­ies for boys and girls across sports is central to our football club’s plans and PEG is the perfect partner to help us make a larger impact across the Hyderabad community.”

“We found great synergy in Fateh Hyderabad which is building a strong grassroots eco-system in this city and in India. We deliver over 25,000 events a month to schools, children and parents with innovative programmes and initiative­s and have been doing so since 1999.” CEO of PEG David Batch said, who became the youngest UEFA ‘A’ level qualified coach in the world when he was just 20 years old.

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