A Ground to Grow
When we say Inter-College Football Tournament, our minds automatically imagine a cheering audience, the sound of kicking the ball, and joy after winning the match. Football is not just a sport for the Youth; it is the ultimate chance for them to shine by showing their skills and tactics, and learning teamwork while doing critical thinking. This is why, every college in India is organizing Inter-College tournaments for their students to grow their skills and have healthy competition.
An inter-college tournament is a few-day event where two or more colleges gather in one place and compete with each other to win. Colleges can take part from any district, city, town, or state. Through these tournaments, students develop an energetic environment surrounding the college. A few of the popular colleges in India, organize these inter-college football tournaments every year like Guwahati University, Bodoland University, in Assam, Narashina Dutt College in West Bengal, Delhi University in Delhi, Bangalore University in Karnataka, and many other colleges. In this blog, we will learn more about this in depth.
Why do we need to participate in the Inter-College Football Tournament?
This is an important event for both students and the colleges. For the students, it is a platform where they learn and create a bond of sportsmanship while they showcase their skills. Some players have the potential to play in bigger stages, which is why some scouts and coaches from various sports academies often attend these matches to find talented players. No matter what your role in the field is, if you perform well on behalf of your college; then you can play for the state. This is the time when they get the chance to experience professional football tournaments while they are a college student.
For the college, participating in these tournaments once a year will work like an advertisement to the people who are not very aware of the college. The tournament advertisement will be in the entire city like billboards, and posters, which means the college name would be there. Nowadays, social media sites get filled up too when some big matches like this happen, even news channels and radio do not want to miss the chance to cover the news about the tournament. during the event too, there would be a billboard of the participating colleges in front of the audience to see which colleges are participating and the maximum audience is the youth who are the target audience for any college.
Certificates are another reason that is important for both colleges and students in their lives to showcase their achievements. In short, it is a golden opportunity! This gives an exciting opportunity for the audience too to watch the incredible performance and cheer for the supporting team which makes it feel like a stadium-type atmosphere. they get the chance to watch the epic goals and shocking penalty shootouts. Their cheering sounds encourage the players, whether it is a goalkeeper or midfielder.
Most importantly, through these tournaments, everyone is sharing their culture. Because lots of students come from different places and backgrounds. Players share one field, and one ball and learn about each other a lot by sharing their stories when they take a break, this is called sportsmanship.
Players who can take part
Various inter-college tournaments have different types of requirements but the common requirements are –
- Age – 17- 25 This is the common age that colleges approve for the students to take part.
- Status – A player should be a full-time student in the college who is in their degree, diploma, or post-degree course.
- Education – Student should have completed their 10+2 examination and have enrolled in their particular college for higher education.
- Document – Student should submit 3 passport-size photographs with a Xerox copy of their original document like ID card, Age proof, and recent fee receipt.
How to prepare for the Inter-College tournament?
Behind every talented player, there is always a father-like coach who makes a player fully prepare for the upcoming challenges. A coach makes sure that they prepare their student for the top level inter-college tournament like All India Inter-University football tournament. For the coaches, they are already the winner but for the players, it is a tough competition to compete for which they need to do a lot of practice of day and night. All the selected teams need to prepare themselves by playing for weeks or months to learn the tactics. The most important tactic is staying calm under pressure which develops when a player has a regular practice of playing football.
Not only this, but they even need to cover their classes which they miss practicing football. Because of this, they get a lot of study pressure and none have the energy left to study after the practice as either they are injured or terribly tired. But this is what they learn while still in college, once student life gets over and job lives start, everyone needs to do multiple tasks just like this.
Conclusion
An inter-college tournament is a few-day event where two or more colleges gather in one place and compete with each other to win. Colleges can take part from any district, city, town, or state. Through these tournaments, students develop an energetic environment surrounding the college. Every college in India is organizing Inter-College tournaments for their students to grow their skills and have healthy competition. This is an important event for both students and the colleges. For the students, it is a platform where they learn and create a bond of sportsmanship while they showcase their skills.
For the college, participating in these tournaments once a year will work like an advertisement to the people who are not very aware of the college. This gives an exciting opportunity for the audience too to watch the incredible performance and cheer for the supporting team which makes it feel like a stadium-type atmosphere. All the selected teams need to prepare themselves by playing for weeks or months to learn the tactics.