Baichung Bhutia may be planning to kickstart a career in politics but his nascent football academy here is organising a workshop to find coaches. Once selected, these coaches would provide training to the budding footballers of the State at the Baichung Bhutia Football Academy which was recently established at the premises of Raja Ram Mohan Roy academy Dehradun by the ace footballer.
The former Indian football team captain Bhutia was in the city last month and he said that he found Dehradun an ideal place to start a football Academy. The academy recently invited on line applications for the coaches and selected 16 candidates for the trials. The trails of these candidates is undergoing in a workshop at Raja Ram Mohan Academy here. The sports in charge of Academy K D Paugel told The Pioneer that the workshop commenced on March 8 and would continue till March 16, he said two women are also among the 16 who are undergoing trials.
The Academy intends to select four coaches from these applicants and the formal coaching in academy is slated to start from next month. Paugel said that that the academy would organize a two day free coaching programme for boys (under 14) on March 15.