Tata Football Academy and the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) will organize a week-long training camp (from 14th June - 20th June 2006) in Dhaka. The finalists of Bangladesh National School Football Championship 2006 and coaches from the top 16 Bangladeshi teams will be trained by coaches from Tata Football Academy (TFA) of Jamshedpur. A friendly match between the best talents of the training camp and TFA team will follow on the 21st June 2006.

Mr. S.M. Sultan, President of Bangladesh Football Federation said that, the training camp in Dhaka is an endeavor of BFF, to ensure real time development of football in Bangladesh because future of sports lies in the emergence of young talents. Mr. Satish Pillai, Head of Sports and Tata Football Academy (TFA) said in Dhaka recently, “We hope to have humble beginning with this camp and contribute more in the future”.

Sports have always been a priority within the corporate philosophy of Tata Steel. The Tata Football Academy, conceived in 1983 and inaugurated in 1987, is but one intrinsic component of the Tata Ideal manifested in reality. The basic objective of Tata Football Academy is to provide the mainstream of national football with a perennial pool of young footballers trained and oriented to international standards. The strategy is simple – “CATCH THEM YOUNG” and give them the best, in terms of training them with modern technique, tactics, physical and psychological conditioning and related inputs.

Many of the country’s football stars and national team players are old TFA trainees.