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NITA FOOTBALL ACADEMY - (National) |
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Dhabaleswar Industrial Training Center, Radhadamodarpur Industrial Estate, P.O.Radhakishorepur, Khuntuni, Cuttack-754029, Odisha. |
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nfba.odisha@gmail.com |
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+91 9437164069 / +91 8861222333 / +91 9437015730 |
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Office Bearers |
MANAGEMENT TEAM: Chairman: Subrat Das; President: Bhakta Ballav Das; Vice-Presidents: Dilip Kumar Sahoo, Manas Ranjan Samal and Prabhat Kumar Mohapatra. General Secretary: Arun Parija; Chief Technical Adviser: Mohammad Shahid Jabbar; Honorary Member: Shikha Tomar.
* Nita Football Academy (NFA) is the brain-child of Subrat Das, who is a mechanical engineer and Managing Director of large construction group in Odisha. * He started the academy in Bhubaneswar with the aim of providing opportunities to underprivileged girls to excel in competitive sports in general and football in particular. * NFA President Bhakta Ballav Das is a retired Superintendent of Police with extensive experience in sports management. * NFA Vice-Presidents Dilip Kumar Sahoo, Manas Ranjan Samal and Prabhat Kumar Mohapatra are well-known former Santosh Trophy players and currently functioning as office-bearers or selectors at Football Association of Odisha. * Arun Parija, the General Secretary of NFA, is also an engineer by profession and carries a passion for nurturing people and talent. * Mohammad Shahid Jabbar, the Chief Technical Adviser of TFA, is a former Santosh Trophy player, who served as the head coach of the India womens national football team from 2010 to 2012 and the head coach of Odisha womens football team. * Under his coaching, Indian women football team emerged champions in the 2010 South Asian Games and SAFF Womens Championship twice in 2010 and 2012. * Honorary member Shikha Tomar is an engineer who worked at Tata Consultancy Services for 18 years. |
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ACHIEVEMENTS: * NFA achieved its first major success by emerging champions in the Odisha Womens League in December 2023. * NFA made a mark at the National football map of India by finishing runners-up in the second tier of the Indian Womens League (IWL-2) in Goa on 28 December 2024 and getting a ticket to compete in the IWL 2024-25. * Around 30 trainees have played the National-level tournaments and 14 have been placed in government jobs. |
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JOURNEY OF NITA FOOTBALL ACADEMY: * NFA was founded on 15 August 2015 and was and was registered under Nita Football Trust with registration number 41081809788 on 20 August 2018. * Eminent footballer-cum-coach, Late Nanda Kishore Patnaik, who was the head coach of NFA, played pivotal role in setting up the academy and expanding its reach to multiple districts. * The academy initially functioned at Salia Sahi, Bhubaneswar, under the mentorship of Nanda Kishore Patnaik, who, however, passed away duing COVID-19 in June 2021. * Since 2022 the academy has been running a comprehensive football programme on its own international standard grounds including a fully residential facility, integrated with quality education at Cuttack. * The residential academy has 110 registered players from Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal. * NFA has a branch in Puri, which, along with football, also promotes table tennis, kho-kho, kabaddi and handball at Puri Zilla School. |
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RECORD LAST UPDATED: 31 May 2024 |
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