‘Tata Tea Arsenal soccer stars’ event
The Hindu — April 11, 2008

Over 40 schools are likely to form the field for the fifth leg of the ‘Tata Tea Arsenal soccer stars’ inter-school seven-a-side competition for children under-15 to be played at the Ambedkar Stadium here on April 12 and 13.

The teams will be divided into 16 groups. Following the league on the first day, the group winners will advance to the knock-out phase to be played the following day. The finalists will join their counterparts from eight other centres in the all-India final to be played in Kolkata on May 17.

At the end of the competition, former players Harjinder Singh, Premnath Philip, Jamshed Nassiri and Brahmanand Sankwalkar will select 30 players out of which 15 will form a team to represent India in the Arsenal International Soccer Festival to be held in the United Kingdom. The boys will be coached by Arsenal coaches, headed by Paul Shipwright, for two weeks in August at Arsenal.