A football club established in the village of Rurka Kalan, which has produced renowned soccer players like Anwar Ali, is all set to get foreign help as the Coventry University of the United Kingdom has agreed to provide technical help in coaching.

A delegation of three sports scientists from the university would visit the academy for an audit and provide the coaches and players technical know-how from April 17 to 26, club president Gurmangal Dass said.

The club, the brian-child of NRI Jasvir Singh Sandhu, a real estate businessman and associate director, Coventry City Football Club, has not only made soccer popular among rural youth, but is also acting as a nursery for players of the Indian team.

This would make football popular in the state at the grassroots level, Dass said, revealing that after the visit, the university would sign an MoU with the club.

Besides Anwar Ali, the All India Football Federation had selected Jatinder Singh of the club for the Indian under-16 team, Dass added.

To impart professional training to the members of the club, two football coaches from Canada have been engaged to sharpen the skills of the budding players.

The coaches are imparting football techniques to around 200 budding players of below 12, 14 & 16.

“Soccer is a game of stamina and power, and the confidence of our players will be high after training,” Dass said, adding that it was a matter of pride that the foreign coaches would specially come to train the budding players.