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Inside Minerva FC’s football talent factory: Home of the boys conquered Europe
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4 months ago
From Chandigarh to Europe, Minerva FC’s U-14 boys conquered the continent. Gothia, Dana, and Norway Cups fell to relentless 3 a.m. training, tactical brilliance, and unshakable belief. Indian football has a new story — and these boys wrote it.
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Music
00:20
When it comes to sports in India, we have never been shy of passion.
00:24
Cricket may hog most of the limelight,
00:27
but somewhere deep down, faintly there is football beating in India's heart.
00:32
Now, Indian football might not be at a place we are proud of,
00:36
but talent, we've got that in spades.
00:39
Let me give you an example.
00:41
A group of under 14 boys went ahead and won the biggest youth tournament that there is.
00:47
Now, are we really talking about it?
00:50
That's the real crime.
00:52
This is the story of Minerva Punjab.
00:57
Music
01:07
You guys got such a big achievement with these kids.
01:10
They deserve a bit more of recognition.
01:13
Not only for them, but for Indian football as a whole.
01:17
Now, these kids are coming from a place.
01:20
We are coming from a place.
01:22
What are they eating?
01:24
How are they staying?
01:25
How are they staying with their families?
01:27
How are they staying with their families?
01:29
How are they staying with your friends?
01:30
How are they staying with your friends?
01:32
Now, nobody supports them.
01:34
But once they perform at the highest level,
01:37
oh my goodness
01:38
entire world will be like
01:41
behind them
01:41
it is not about
01:47
do not feel bad
01:48
but this is the harsh reality
01:50
till now nobody from
01:53
you know from even
01:55
the state
01:55
forget about the rest of the country
01:59
from the state
02:00
nobody came and you know
02:03
come and
02:03
I think
02:05
what you have done
02:08
how difficult it was
02:10
how easy it was
02:11
recognition
02:12
recognition
02:13
is very far
02:14
now it is a time of the social media
02:18
so this is a tool
02:20
which we can use to get highlight
02:22
yes
02:23
there was a board outside the stadium
02:25
and it was written there
02:28
that in 1952 Olympics
02:30
Indian team came there
02:31
and they lost 10-0
02:32
against Yugoslavia
02:34
and the day we were in the final
02:38
everyone you know
02:39
around the stadium
02:40
everyone
02:41
especially these
02:42
guras
02:44
they used to come
02:45
oh
02:45
how do you train them
02:47
how did you
02:48
how did you train them
02:49
what
02:50
what
02:50
you know
02:52
how you periodize their schedule
02:54
what
02:55
what kind of training
02:56
you used to give them
02:56
oh my god
02:57
like what a day it is
02:59
like the foreigners
03:00
they are asking us
03:02
what kind of training
03:03
you have
03:03
given them
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so the workout
03:06
these guys have put in
03:07
was
03:08
incredible
03:10
you cannot imagine
03:12
by sitting here
03:13
in front of the camera
03:14
in front of the boys
03:15
in front of audience
03:16
it is very easy
03:17
when it comes to
03:19
put in the effort
03:20
physical effort
03:21
then everybody says
03:23
I will not do it
03:24
I will not do it
03:26
you will not do it
03:27
I will not do it
03:27
and then
03:28
we need to manage them
03:30
mentally
03:31
that no
03:32
Ponshi
03:32
there is no second chance
03:34
you need to go
03:35
Azam
03:35
come on get up
03:36
you need to do
03:37
Raj come on
03:38
you cannot leave it in behind
03:39
so these kind of things
03:41
like
03:41
you can ask
03:42
any one of them
03:43
any one of them
03:45
they used to like
03:45
I am accepting this
03:47
in front of the camera
03:48
they used to abuse us
03:49
but this is how it is
03:51
when you want to achieve something
03:53
you need to accept everything
03:55
there is no second chance
03:56
there is no second option
03:58
you need to fucking put in
03:59
hard work inside
04:02
and then you can get the
04:03
you know outcome outside
04:05
simple
04:05
what is the motive
04:12
to interchange the position
04:13
be careful while
04:14
interchanging the positions
04:16
attacking midfielder
04:17
or winger
04:17
clear with the winger
04:18
what is the motive
04:19
then what
04:20
this is how we prepare you
04:23
this is because
04:24
why
04:25
because you guys have worked hard
04:26
now
04:27
remember what you have done
04:28
this is the work of work
04:29
this is the work of work
04:30
this is the work of work
04:31
this is the work of work
04:32
when you wake up at 3 o'clock
04:33
every day
04:34
that we reach the final
04:36
every time
04:37
we reach the final
04:38
we reach the end
04:39
we reach the end
04:40
everyone knows
04:41
that there is a team
04:42
came from India
04:43
and came from India
04:44
and everyone
04:45
came from the end
04:46
what do you do
04:47
what do you do
04:48
what do you do
04:49
what do you do
04:50
what do you do
04:51
what do you do
04:52
what do you do
04:53
what do you do
04:54
what do you do
04:55
build the body
04:56
and build the mind
04:57
this is a saying
04:58
that's been going on
04:59
since generation
05:00
now winning a tournament
05:02
like gothiya
05:03
or dana
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isn't all about
05:05
endless hours of trainings
05:06
sweating it out
05:08
day in day out
05:09
it's about your mind
05:11
being able to handle it
05:12
it's about your body
05:13
being physically capable
05:14
of doing that
05:15
24 is to 7
05:17
before you go to the big stage
05:19
and this is what
05:20
Meneva is doing here
05:21
and this is what
05:22
each and every Indian
05:23
football club
05:24
might or might not know
05:26
is something of vast importance
05:29
if a player
05:34
if he is a 100% fit for play
05:37
he is a good talent player
05:39
he has good skills
05:40
everything he has
05:41
he is 100% fit to play
05:43
exactly
05:44
so when he is coming to the field
05:46
when he started playing
05:47
so in between
05:48
obviously
05:49
they are players
05:50
they will make mistakes
05:51
of course
05:52
after making mistakes
05:53
after that setback
05:54
he don't know how to come back
05:55
he don't know how to come back
05:57
from the setback
05:58
ok
05:59
so he don't know
06:00
how to control that pressure
06:02
so
06:03
can you
06:04
do you think
06:05
that he can
06:06
take his full potential
06:07
of his performance
06:08
not with a troubled mind
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at least
06:11
so that is the thing
06:12
obviously
06:13
everyone is looking for
06:14
their physical part
06:15
physical training
06:16
here
06:17
we are getting
06:18
all the areas
06:19
physical part
06:20
mental part
06:21
you know
06:22
physios
06:23
whatever we need
06:24
we have a
06:25
sports science team
06:26
to help the players
06:27
to grow
06:28
in the past
06:29
the first day
06:30
the preparation
06:31
was the most difficult
06:32
what was the most difficult
06:33
you think
06:34
to adapt those sessions
06:36
because
06:37
our body
06:38
was not able to take
06:39
everything
06:40
we had to do
06:41
two sessions
06:42
in one day
06:43
one day
06:44
but
06:45
when it started
06:46
early morning
06:47
after
06:48
recovery
06:49
after
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four sessions
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after
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four sessions
06:53
it was very difficult
06:54
we had to do
06:55
sleep
06:56
we had to sleep
06:57
around
06:58
at night
06:59
we had to sleep
07:00
and we were
07:01
three to two days
07:02
so
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it was very difficult
07:04
to load them protein
07:05
as much as possible
07:06
according to their
07:07
body needs
07:08
we did their individual
07:09
body composition test
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and try to meet
07:11
their needs
07:12
its individual
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everything
07:14
and not only protein
07:15
we conducted their
07:16
nutritional profiling
07:17
and blood test
07:18
and whatever
07:19
nutrition is deficient
07:20
we tried to meet
07:21
that
07:22
the first step
07:46
of these boys only
07:47
one of you
07:48
will
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you know
07:50
you will see them
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like coming two three or four years 101 i know i know how much work we as a minerva core team we
08:01
are putting in for them i know 101 you'll see a very very very soon you'll see a you know face in
08:10
european football satisfaction is not like that i am satisfied with the yes this thing but now
08:17
we know that yes what we can do yeah and this is the boys and we have shown that yes what indians
08:25
can do we should believe and those who know the football or those who don't know they should know
08:32
yes indian can achieve so that winning those tournaments and playing in foreign soils gives
08:38
that confidence yes we can do so that kind of learning i have learned and the boys have learned
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and each one of us in our country should think positive that yes we can do if we want to
08:54
rise indian football standard we need to work like this yes the training hours the time of amount
09:02
we spend with these boys so it's very important for us to see that yes it's not that yes we are going and
09:08
working for only one month and going playing tournament no they played in the mina cup they
09:13
won the mina cup it's not that only we just go on to there and it's a food then we planned yes how
09:19
to get the exposure we went to speed we won the gothi cup then yes we planned again we stopped one year
09:29
we planned again yes make it big going to other four three tournaments now we are in the room which
09:37
is probably the favorite room of everybody in this academy and frankly it's it's suddenly become my
09:46
favorite room this is the mina 5c program and i'm going to show you something that is basically
09:56
the point of why i'm here and even while saying it see if you can notice i'm having blues bonsai
10:03
this is a different achievement this is a different achievement but this is a different
10:09
achievement in terms of fitness our plan was to achieve our mentality strong like our army
10:21
we thought wherever we are going to go like profi jit came to us so our sir has helped us
10:27
get our team up we have to do work out we have to do work out so we have to do work out so we have to
10:34
do good work so to get the job it's good to get the job and it's better to get the job
10:36
what was your thought process what was your thought process was to prepare kids
10:40
morning sessions and evening sessions to take their rest time to adjust their food
10:47
to maintain their food and if they had a recovery they had their sessions also
10:53
Sometimes, when the throw is good, the group is different and they practice their throw.
10:59
Everyone has different individual sessions.
11:04
Everyone has different sessions in the pool or ground sessions.
11:09
Everyone has more difficult to push over.
11:14
2-3 hours of training, then again.
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in the morning at 2.30am, at 3.00am reporting,
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everything was done and then we had to push more
11:22
because it was a whole month
11:24
and we were going to continue this
11:26
so that we would have more trophies in the future.
11:47
This is the moment that we all have been waiting for.
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The whole point why I am here,
11:55
the whole point why India should celebrate its football glory.
11:59
We have the triple glory that Minerva brought to India.
12:05
We have the Dena Cup,
12:07
we have the Gauthier Cup
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and we have the Norway Cup
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and to make things even better,
12:13
we have another Gauthier Cup
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which was won by the under 13 team of Minerva
12:18
and right beside it,
12:20
we have Nana Radan,
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the Shubhrabhu Cup from 2023.
12:25
This is what it's all about.
12:28
This is what Indian football needs.
12:32
That is representation, recognition
12:36
and till this point,
12:39
this is Minerva doing it all
12:41
but what does Indian football need more
12:44
is for the other football clubs in this country
12:47
to adopt the same procedure,
12:50
the same dedication
12:51
and the same concentrated hard work
12:54
to be put from the ground level up
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and Minerva's success only screams
13:00
that that is the way to go forward for Indian football.
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and help withmara during
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a clarification.
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Watch everybody for the exclusivity
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to our friends,
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and help you to get started.
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Be able to get started even more
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and get started.
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From our off to the top,
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here's the Chief of Berlin,
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