The Nagaland Olympic Association (NOA) and Sports For All (SFA), have introduced a strategic partnership to strengthen the grassroots ecosystem within the state. The announcement was made in attendance of esteemed dignitaries, Neiphiu Rio, Chief Minister of Nagaland; Y Patton, Deputy CM, Nagaland; Abu Metha, Advisor to CM and Chairman IDAN and Neivikuolie Khatsu, Asst Secretary General, NOA. This partnership marks a major step in the direction of the conclusion of the shared imaginative and prescient to encourage sports activities participation, empower expertise, and construct a platform for athletes to showcase their expertise on a bigger stage, knowledgeable a press launch by the NOA on February 6.

Nagaland, identified for its wealthy cultural heritage, has been making commendable strides in sports activities, said the NOA. The not too long ago introduced Nagaland Olympic & Paralympic Games 2024 throughout 16 sporting disciplines underscore the state’s dedication to creating alternatives for athletes. Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, Cricket, Football, and so forth. are among the key sports activities of the state. Previously, Nagaland has additionally produced some nice sportsmen like Dr. T Ao (the primary captain of the Indian Olympic soccer staff) and Chekrovolu Swuro (Olympian archer and Arjuna Awardee).

“Nagaland Olympic Association and Sports For All (SFA), together aim to create an environment that encourages sports at the grassroots level and ignites a passion for excellence. Our aim is to bring about sustainable change for our state, through sports. Introducing a sporting culture in school, strengthening the same in college, creating a strong ecosystem for women athletes and coaches, are key initiatives that make Nagaland a great contender to host the National Games,” said Neiphiu Rio.

Meanwhile Abu Metha, Advisor to CM and Chairman IDAN expressed that the brand new partnership is aligned with Nagaland’s imaginative and prescient to broaden the sporting ecosystem in Nagaland and provide a possibility for its athletes to check their capabilities and acquire publicity. “We are looking forward to the journey of triumph and personal growth that lies ahead for our athletes, our future Champions,” stated Metha.

SFA, India’s largest tech-enabled multi-sports faculty competitors platform, has been working in the direction of the event of grassroots sports activities ecosystem of the nation, since inception in 2015. Through this partnership, the corporate will facilitate its flagship IP – SFA Championships – a pivotal platform for growing grassroots sports activities within the state and the nation. The dedication of the NOA and the Government of Nagaland, will probably be a catalyst within the discovery of sporting expertise on the SFA Championships.

Speaking on the partnership, Rishikesh Joshi, Founder, Sports For All (SFA), elaborated, “The partnership with Nagaland Olympic Association strengthens our mission to enable a platform for the country’s youth to compete and play sports. Nagaland has seen significant growth in terms of sporting infrastructure and budding athletes, and this association will assist to further the sporting ecosystem of the state and our country. After having created a valuable impact across 9 cities within a span of 3 months, SFA Championships will now make a debut in the North-East, the grounds of emerging sporting potential”.

With the ahead path to host 150 Championships throughout 50 cities of India, within the subsequent 5 years, this partnership is a transfer ahead in making sports activities accessible for varsity athletes throughout the nation, thereby empowering in the present day’s expertise to grow to be the Champions of tomorrow. The journey to symbolize the nation on the Olympics, is what SFA Championships is enabling for rising athletes.

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About Nagaland Olympic Association (NOA)

Nagaland Olympic Association is the physique chargeable for facilitating implementation of state insurance policies with respect to sports activities and inspiring and spreading consciousness about sports activities within the State of Nagaland below the aegis of the Government of Nagaland and the Indian Olympic Association. Nagaland Olympic Association’s purpose is to broaden base sports activities within the State of Nagaland and produce excellence in sports activities by creating infrastructure and offering assist for the coaching of athletes & groups taking part in sports activities occasions and planning, organizing, and delivering sports activities training. Nagaland Olympic Association promotes sports activities throughout the State of Nagaland by way of its allied models and helps and nurtures expertise in younger athletes and gives them requisite assist by way of its varied sports activities’ promotional schemes.

About Sports For All (SFA)

Sports For All (SFA) is India’s largest tech-enabled multi-sport grassroots competitors platform. The imaginative and prescient is to make youth fall in love with sports activities by way of inspiring and joyful sporting experiences. Founders Rishikesh Joshi and Vishwas Choksi, because the inception of SFA in 2015, have determinedly targeted on reworking and mobilizing faculty sporting championships within the nation, by offering an inclusive, various, secure, and best-in-class platform for the youth to comprehend their fullest potential by way of sports activities.

SFA Championships, SFA’s flagship IP, brings forth the potential of large-scale multi-sporting competitions propelled by tech and information analytics. Being digital in nature, the SFA Championships have in the present day grow to be the spine of figuring out sporting potential on the grassroots stage. In the 2023-2024 version, SFA inspired 150,000 athletes to take part at 9 SFA Championships, throughout the cities of Indore, Uttarakhand, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Ahmedabad, to find out the “number one school in sports”, in every metropolis.

With a technology-led strategy at its core, SFA permits all the grassroots sport ecosystem by way of SFAPLAY.COM, a platform designed to empower and join all stakeholders by way of statistics, information, analytics, match movies, content material, efficiency administration, and competitors administration techniques.

SFA is the main sports activities entrepreneurial enterprise empaneled with the Sports Authority of India (SAI). We have been the “official partner” of the Indian Olympic Association, enabling assist for Indian contingent to the Tokyo Olympics, 2020; Birmingham Commonwealth Games, 2022; Asian Games, 2022. SFA has been an integral staff on the thirty sixth National Games, Gujarat, 2022, the thirty seventh National Games, Goa, 2023 and editions of Khelo India Youth Games in Haryana, Pune, Guwahati and not too long ago the Tamil Nadu version. In the yr 2023, SFA signed on because the “powered by” sponsors for the Khelo India Youth Games, for the subsequent 5 years.

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