Nita Ambani launches RFYS football Ahmedabad leg
Nita Ambani launches RFYS football Ahmedabad leg
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Gujarat: On Friday the  Ahmedabad City leg of Reliance Foundation Youth Sports School and college football championship was launched. The foundation chairperson Nita Ambani gave her wishes to the Indian team for the upcoming FIFA Under-17 World Cup which is scheduled to be held in India.

At the SAL Education campus in Ahmedabad, the 53-year-old launched the second season of RF Youth Sports before the inaugural match between SAL Institute of Technology & Engineering and Silver Oak College of Engineering & Technology.

The football championship for the Ahmedabad leg will comprise 220 teams in four categories i.e Junior Boys, Senior Boys, School Girls and College Boys. The cities Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Shillong, Aizwal, Imphal, Hyderabad and Jamshedpur will participate in this year. The City winner of each category further proceeds to compete at the Zonal Qualifiers.

She said "We have over 60,000 kids playing this beautiful game in 30 centres across the country right now. By December this year, we would have reached out to over 6 million children through our football initiatives. It's heartening to see so much wonderful talent at our disposal. I am sure the day is not far when we can start competing as equals with top teams in Asia and the world," 

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