POST EVENT INFORMATION

With an early start in Hitchin, we set up the TDR Fun & Fitness Arena in the school playing fields where children as young as 5 up to academy players and staff were able to make full use of the Ring under the heat of the sun. With the added bonus of watching John Farnworth, World Champion Freestyler, bouncing the ball off each target inside the Ring, teenage Academy Players were able to achieve scores which placed them firmly on the league table of the Top 100 in the Country shown on our website.

PRE EVENT INFORMATION

Bal Singh set up the Khalsa Youth Football Club back in 1988, primarily to increase the participation of ethnic minority players in grassroots football. In 2004 Bal launched the Khalsa Youth Football Academy, This was a project, which gave youngsters a platform to showcase their skills in front of coaches from semi- professional and professional clubs. To help set up the Academy Bal visited AC Milan Youth Academy meeting up with Italian legend Franco Baresi and getting a very good education from former AC Milan and Italian international Alberigo Evani. Bal also co-ordinated the official launch of the Academy project in 2005 with community coaches from Liverpool Football club, European champions at the time.

One of Bal’s biggest successes has been creating a wide network of partners for his academy, not only in the UK but also across Europe complemented by numerous groundbreaking initiatives such as his One team, One game Striving, for Unity project, which saw him take a group of Asian players to Valencia CF in 2006.

Bal has hired the TDR fun and Fitness Arena for an AC Milan themed event scheudled for 10th August at Wilshere Dacre School.