Liverpool Expand By Launching Indian Soccer School

Liverpool Football Club have expanded into further markets with the launch of the first Premier League Soccer School in India.

The new centre is located in Pune and will open in January with full size pitches, classrooms, a gym, canteen, lecture theatre and medical facilities.

Two of the Merseyside club’s academy coaches will be based in Pune permanently and the Reds hope their fanbase will increase in India as a result of the school.

Liverpool’s head of soccer schools Dan White said: “It is unique. It’s the first time that a top-flight club here has worked with a club in India to develop an international academy programme which is year-round on a purpose-built facility.

“All of those elements have come together to create an exciting opportunity for us really.

“It’s not about necessarily finding the next player, it’s about every player that comes onto the programme, developing them as players and also as individuals so that we can have more of an impact in terms of the way the club’s perceived and what we can do in different parts of the world.

“If you look at China as a country we know we’ve got a lot of fans there and this project is about bringing the club closer to the fans, through the medium of coaching and giving opportunities to young players in and around that region to learn, what we call, to play the Liverpool way.”