Chelsea FC - Asian Star Pre-Event an overwhelming success!

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CHELSEA ASIAN STAR PRE-EVENT

HOSTED BY SPORTING EQUALS WITH AMBASSADOR PETER VIRDEE

 
More than 100 children congregated at Three Bridges Primary School in the heart of Southall at the Chelsea Asian Star pre-event hosted by Sporting Equals, to prepare young players for the ASIAN STAR 2013 that will take place at Chelsea Football Club’s Cobham training ground on MONDAY 6^TH MAY.

Chelsea Foundation coaches joined coaches from Southall Sports Trust to put kids through their paces in a series of drills, similar to those which will be used in May at the Asian Star event. Asian Star offers successful applicants the chance to win a season-long placement on Chelsea Foundation's Football Development Centre.

Sporting Equals Ambassador PETER VIRDEE said:

“It was an absolute delight to come down and watch kids from the South Asian community come out in force alongside their parents and partake in the pre-event. The kids showed great enthusiasm and I was impressed by some of the talents that I saw. Hopefully after today we will be able to drum up further support for Asian Star in May.”

Asians in Football Forum BUTCH FAZAL, also came down to the pre-event to show his support to the proactive Asian Star campaign.
Fazal added:

"It was a pleasure to attend the pre-event for Chelsea Asian Star 2013
and uplifting to not only see aspirational players but also to see
so many committed parents. There is a clear generational shift in
the attitude of South Asian parents and with their support
 I am confident the critical mass of quality players from our
community is only round the corner."

Speaking about the support of Sporting Equals for this year’s Asian Star event, Chief Executive Officer of Sporting Equals ARUN KANG commented: 'Sporting Equals are delighted to be working with Chelsea FC and supporting Asian Star 2013. Chelsea has shown their commitment to finding players from south Asian backgrounds by opening up their youth programmes to the whole community when scouting for new talent. Often young Asian talent gets missed and this is an exciting opportunity for us to address the underrepresentation of Asian faces in football.’

SIMON TAYLOR, Head of the Chelsea Foundation, added:
 "The event at Southall was a great day for everyone concerned. The kids had a fantastic time and their passion for the game was evident. There's clearly a talent within the Asian community, a talent we want to nurture by providing opportunities for Asian players to get into the game. We look forward to the main event on MONDAY 6 MAY and urge any player with a love of football to get involved."

 

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BUTCH FAZAL & SOUTHALL SPORTS TRUST JOIN FORCES WITH SPORTING EQUALS TO HOST CHELSEA FC ASIAN STAR LAUNCH EVENT

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 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

 

 Butch Fazal will be supporting this year’s Asians Star campaign, hosted by the Chelsea Foundation by attending the campaign’s launch on Sunday 14 April in Southall.

 

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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