CHAIR OF ASIANS IN FOOTBALL FORUM BUTCH FAZAL AND SOUTHALL SPORTS TRUST JOIN FORCES WITH SPORTING EQUALS TO HOST CHELSEA FC ASIAN STAR LAUNCH EVENT
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Fazal, who is Chair of Asians in Football Forum and Member of the National Race Equality Advisory Group, is a figurehead in football. He has spearheaded a number of campaigns and initiatives which aim to encourage the Asian community into football and has been a proactive equalities campaigner in the area of South Asians participation in football for over 30 years. As a licensed FA football coach he is also aiming to be one of the few South Asian coach educators for the Football Association
Butch Fazal said: ‘I would like to wish the Asian Star campaign event the best of luck. There are thousands of young aspirational Asian players who would welcome the opportunity to display their undoubted skill and ability. This project, now in its fifth year, has proven sustainability and is an exemplar of good practice which I hope can be replicated by other clubs in the near future to enable even more South Asians to break through in the game.’
Butch Fazal will be accompanied by Sporting Equals Ambassador Peter Virdee at the pre-launch that will take place at the Three Bridges Primary School in Southall.The Asian Star pre-event will give more than 100 young boys the opportunity to be put through a series of tests and small-sided games designed and used by the Chelsea Academy to examine speed, skill and ability.
This process will also be undertaken at the actual final of the Asian Star campaign, which will be hosted at Chelsea’s training ground in Cobham in a bid to identify a player to win a season-long placement at the European Champion's Football Development Centre.
As well as empowering players, local coaches will be given the opportunity to learn from the Chelsea Foundation's qualified coaching staff by supporting activities on the day. Participation will be on a first-come, first-served basis and if your child would like to register for the pre-event please download PreEvent Registration Form
To further the community incorporation within the pre-event, coaches from Southall Sports Trust, a local charity organisation based in the city of Southall, will be coaching kids at the event alongside Chelsea Foundation coaches.
Southall Sports Trust works actively within the BME community in Southall and the surrounding areas to get the community into sports. The main objective of the charity organisation is to use the power of sports to build bridges in the community and unite kids and young adults from all communities.
Charan Gill, CEO of the Southall Sports Trust, said: ‘We are extremely delighted to be getting involved in the Chelsea Asian Star campaign this year with Chelsea FC. We are very much looking forward to our coaches working alongside the highly-qualified Chelsea Foundation coaches. It is fantastic to see the European Champions really delve deep into the community to drum up more support for this positive initiative that pro-actively encourages our community to get involved in football and showcase that there really is interest from top clubs like Chelsea FC to identify Asian players.’
ArunKang, CEO of Sporting Equals, added: ‘I am extremely delighted to have Butch Fazal and Southall Sports Trust at the event as they both support our ambitions and objectives to see positive impact made at a grassroots level in sport’
The actual Chelsea Asian Star event will take place on Monday 6 May at the club’s Cobham training. Visit the following link to register for the final www.chelseafc.com/asianstar
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