Overcoming infrastructure crisis and challenges related to scarcity of funds, a community footballacademy in India—ARDOR Football Academy—is nurturing football talents in the remotest hamlets and slums.
Growing up in the dingy bylanes of Sabar Sahi slum in Bhubaneshwar city of India’s eastern state of Odisha, little did Chandan Nayak—a teenager—know that he would be trained in football by legends at Bayern Munich Football Club in Germany. Poverty and lack of resources were a deterrent to his dreams. But like a magic wand picks up the dust in no time, the adversities were swept off his road to success by the efforts of coaches at Ardor Football Academy (AFA) in Bhubaneswar. A magic wand to hundreds of slum kids and teenagers, the one-of-its-kind philanthropic academy ensures professional grassroots football training for all free of cost.
Having touched over 5,000 lives through football training so far, Ardor operates more than 18 community grassrootss programmes in three Indian states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
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