Team Lazarus
We Indians are renowned for our ability to improvise on scenarios and make the best use of them. Our ‘Jugaad’ approach towards problems apply to the sports that children play in the streets as well. Ask the student about how they played cricket inside a classroom with a chair as a wicket, an exam pad as a bat and a paper ball. Or how we managed to play an intense 5-a-side football match in the tightest of spaces where we learnt how to play the game without kicking the ball too high. Sport in India is played anywhere and everywhere. It is extremely well-knit with childhood and dare we say a sense of freedom.
But there is a cliche – ‘All good things come to an end’. In India, more often when children who want to make a career out of sport, they are faced with two major issues -
This is where we, Lazarus Sports India, step in to solve one issue and thereby ensuring that the second one does not get an opportunity to crop up.
Lazarus was born out of the idea that India’s aspiring athletes need a stable, high-quality and a scientific method of development from a very early age, i.e, the grassroots stage. This is like the models that are used in places like Europe which lead to talent pools being created across all age groups and create a clear path towards a professional career.
A good grassroots programme is extremely vital for a child’s sporting development as it gives them the opportunity to be a part of tightly knit sport communities, build a development based attitude and most importantly, it gives the child freedom to express themselves and play, something which is sorely missing in India.
Lazarus’ Grassroots Programme ensures that an aspiring child athlete gets their sporting development in the right physical, nutritional, technical and psychological environment in their formative years and enables them towards pursuing sport as a career. Our programme relies heavily on sports science to give kids the most efficient and effective development opportunity there is, and all this while making sure they always have fun.
Our program comes with a strong emphasis on social and mental development through our expert coaches and psychologists who ensure that the child is in the best physical and mental shape to take on challenges of any nature.
Lazarus’ highly structured and scientific grassroots programme will not only ensure all-round development of the child, but it provides them with a clearly defined path towards playing in a professional league, an aspect that is highly disjointed in India. A clear route towards a career and adequate support will also ease fears in the minds of concerned parents when their wards choose to pursue sport as a career.
Our grassroots programme will aim to set the standard for professional sports development for kids and ensure that they are ahead of the curve in their aspirations to become a professional sportsperson. In this way, we seek to build a basic structure of sports into our society and then continue to build a bridge between that basic structure and professional recognition.
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