Aston Villa Football Club, one of the biggest club in English football plans to expand globally and India is one of the countries its eyeing.
"Aston Villa not only want to have an Indian Super League club, but also open Football Academies all over the country", says Tony Xia, Chairman, Aston Villa Football Club while announcing the launch of its Academy in India.
"Aston Villa has one of the best football academies in the world and has fans all over the world, some of our famous fans include David Cameron, Prince William, Tom Hanks and using our network we also want to help promote U-17 FIFA World Cup being held in India next year and make it a big sports celebration in India", he further added.
Tony Xia and group members of Aston Villa club, have been holding meetings with several members of the Indian Government including the Minister of Sport (Mr. Vijay Goel) and the Minister of Education (Mr. Prakesh Javedekar) to discuss providing training for football coaches for Indian state schools to be based at the new Aston Villa academy and training facility to be opened in New Delhi.
The objective is for India to have a national football team challenging on the international stage within a generation and for India to host the World Cup.
The New Delhi Aston Villa academy will also coach and train youngsters from the age of 5 as Aston Villa does in England.
Also, Aston Villa FC believes in equal opportunity in sports for every kid and therefore we plan to send coaches and provide coaching programme for poor kids and girls.
Aston Villa co-founded the Football League and the English Premier League and has spent the second longest period (105 years) in England’s top tier of football.
It has won the top league seven times also won the European Cup, now called the Champions League.
Aston Villa’s football academy and training ground is regarded as one of the very best in football and is located outside Birmingham at Bodymoor Heath.
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