Everest Sports to organise football clinic

dubai — Everest Sports has teamed up with legendary Indian footballer Gautam Sarkar to organise a youth football clinic in the UAE.

This interactive camp is designed to educate, encourage and empower young aspiring footballers within the ages 7-15 while teaching them the proper skills and techniques from the legendary footballer.

The clinic will be held from April 18 to May 1at the DPS, Dubai, ground in Jebal Ali and at the Sky- line University, Sharjah. For details and registrations contact Zahid Butt on 050-4520175, Ehtesham on 055-2058661 or Ali on 0555583283.

Everest Sports headed by chief coach Shahzad Altaf, is coming up with their new football academy and the football clinic is one the major initiatives towards it.

Sarkar who hails from West Bengal is an ex-national player having represented India in various national and international tournaments including Asian Games and Mardeka Cup. Sadiq from Nigera will be his assistant during his coaching.

He is one of the few players who has the feat of captaining two of the premier clubs in India, namely Mohun Bagan and East Bengal. He has a coaching experience of more than 23 years and is a certified coach from Fifa, IOC and AFC.

At present Sarkar is the Chief Technical Director of West Bengal State Football Academy in Kolkata, India.