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What these Jharkhand girls are doing in Spain?

September 19, 2017 21:19 IST

Real Sociedad provide coaches training to Jharkhand girls

Real Sociedad

IMAGE: Spain’s Real Sociedad train Jharkhand girls in football.

Top La Liga club Real Sociedad are currently imparting state of the art coaching facilities -- UEFA 2017 Level 1 training programme to eight talented female coaches from Jharkhand.

The girls also got a chance to walk out on the field during a recent La Liga game between Sociedad and Real Madrid.

 

Real Sociedad

 

The project is an initiative by YUWA, an internationally acclaimed NGO with support from BookASmile.

These coaches are learning all the new training tricks and techniques to bring back to their teams in India.

Real Sociedad

 

BookASmile – the charity initiative of BookMyShow, has developed the Football For Empowerment Program with YUWA for an entire year till March 2018, to provide training and development on and off the field to over 300 girls daily in
Jharkhand.

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