Now Finances Won’t Stop You to Bend it Like Beckham, AIFF launches mobile scouting application to discover talent

New Delhi: Prompted by the success of the overseas online scouting portal which helped All India Football Federation discover players for the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017, the AIFF on Tuesday (March 27, 2018) took it a step further by becoming the first National Sports Federation in India to launch a mobile based scouting application to unearth future talent.

Keeping in tune with taking help from digital space, AIFF’s new mobile scouting application Scout-Me will further ease out the scouting process.

It was through their overseas online scouting portal that AIFF had earlier unearthed Namit Deshpande and Sunny Dhaliwal for the Indian U17 squad which represented India in their maiden appearance at the FIFA U17 World Cup India.

AIFF President Praful Patel who unveiled the scouting app at a function in the Capital said: “It’s a pleasure for me to launch AIFF’s scouting application today. We have so much talent across every corner of the country but it’s always not physically possible to travel the distance. Hence, we intend to bridge this distance through the ever growing and highly penetrative mobile application ecosystem.”

“I would like to also take this opportunity to congratulate Kush, the creator of this app. I would urge the youth today to invest their intellect in such constructive acts that only work as a showcase for their future and also help many like them in the longer run,” he added. “I am sure that through Scout-Me, we would be slowly giving life to many aspirants and talent who dream to represent their state and country in football.”

The AIFF Scouting Application ScoutMe has been developed by a 17-year football enthusiast Kush Pandey who is pursuing hisInternational Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Jayshree Periwal International School, Jaipur and incidentally has represented Delhi at the National Championships and also leads his school football team.

Kush Pandey, the creator of the App said: “My interest in computer science along with my love for football and sustained help from my younger brother Arjun Pandey enabled me to create an application to scout prospective footballing talent. I am grateful to AIFF for giving me the platform to aid their grassroots development scouting process through the application.”