Seema Kumari couldn't have asked for a better birthday gift as she turns 15 today. The Class IX student from Jharkhand's Ormanjhi district, who held her first football at the age of 10, is among a select bunch (in picture) picked to join a training course for coaches by Real Sociedad's La Liga team in Spain.
The group of 10 — eight girls and two boys from Jharkhand's villages — landed in Spain on Friday afternoon. Over the next few weeks, they get to pick up coaching skills from some of the best trainers in the game. Associated with Jharkhand-based Yuwa — an NGO that seeks to connect youngsters in Ormanjhi to education through football — each of them will train and then coach a team drawn from the villages.
Read more of this in a report by Ambika Pandit published in Times of India...
