The Importance Of Promoting Football In Rural Areas

Sports are very essential for every human life which keeps them fit. It has great importance in every stage of life. Reduces mental stress and improves the personality of people. Sports keep our all organ alert and heart becomes stronger. By regular playing some kind of sport improves the health of the entire community.

In India 65% of the people live in rural areas out of which 25% are youth. They do not have many facilities for sports. We need to promote coaching centres with grounds and proper infrastructure in rural areas.

Football is one such sport which is more enjoyable and teaches us the importance of discipline, sportsmanship, leadership, team work, decision making, presence of mind and time management.

Many children have the potential but do not have the right guidance and platform to fulfil their dreams. Football coaching is important in rural areas which will teach self awareness, social skills and leadership qualities in children. Professional training techniques will challenge every level of the player at their own pace. They will learn to follow rules, respect teammates, and opponents.

Coaching in rural areas can help in identifying best in-class football players, train them professionally and create an opportunity to make them play in the State / National / International levels by providing them a path to be successful.

Coaching helps in the all round development of rural youth. Children will learn from their failure and success, hence sports competitions need to be conducted in the rural areas.

To promote Football in rural areas a sports campaign has to be organized and encourage youth to take up sports as a career option. This will improve their financial condition as well. The purpose of the sports campaign is to create interest in Football so that they are not just confined to agriculture or any other sport.

Build sports infrastructure in rural areas and conduct competitions regularly and encourage children to participate. Talented children can be recommended to the state by rural community. These competitions don’t just engage participating children, but also attract non-participating children, and encourage them to take up the sport.

BSSFC (Bangalore Super Strikers Football Club) is one such club in Bangalore which strives to help players reach the maximal potential in their lives and in the higher levels of football– STATE LEVEL and NATIONAL LEVEL with too many talented players in India. Our aim is to provide players a platform to showcase their skills and to perform at the highest level possible.

Skill Set In Kids

Any skill set that is important or useful in one’s life can be considered as life skills. It is one which is vital to live efficiently in any challenging environment and make the most out of it.

Playing sports will keep kids active and away from unproductive online game sessions. Football has remained as one of the ideal contact game which help in upgrading of social skills, that is necessary to be successful not only in football but in real life as well.

Football is all about having fun and equally learning discipline, commitment and team work. There is no other game that will help in learning physical fitness better than football.

Let’s learn how football helps in developing life skills in kids:

• Interpersonal Skills
  Teamwork is an attribute that kids will have to carry, football helps in actively engaging your kids throughout the session, interaction with fellow team members helps in developing interpersonal skills among kids.
• Resilience
  In any sport win or to loose are two faces of the same coin, its essential that our kids learn to recover from setbacks and treat them as opportunities to grow . Hence, soccer is known for erudition of resilience.
• Assertive and time management
  Football is a 90 minutes game where every moment is crucial, one should be agile and quick in decision making it’s a game in mind and foot kicks accordingly it’s all about eye contact, assertiveness and time management.
• Leadership
  This ensure in developing leadership quality of making independent and quick decision among kids. As, every move in football is important to reach the goal, one will be an epitome of mindfulness and also learn to give attention to every single move.

Knowledge is an ocean, this is just the hand full of sand in that ocean that’s mentioned above there is lot more to learn and implement in our real life from football, as it’s not just a game it’s a sense of hope, battle of millions of dreamers and life blood of brave men.