BVB & LA LIGA BE PART OF UTR!

🤝 Both Borussia Dortmund (BvB) and LaLiga are named as the strategic partners of the ambitious Unleash The Roar! (UTR!) Project, announced jointly by SportSG and Football Association of Singapore.

🎒 10 schools will be designated in the pilot project as School Football Academies (SFA) with LaLiga coaches to deploy to each SFA to work alongside with local coaches.

📚 BvB will help customise a UTR! coach development programme for promising youth coaches.

VARIOUS MEDIA REPORTS

📝 https://t.co/JvNWXrlCnv (CNA)

📝 https://t.co/UUvH7yWXNL (The Straits Times)

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𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒?

⏳ After months of anticipation, we are given some updates on the Unleash The Roar! (UTR!) project days ago.

🤔 When I first read about it, my main concern would be the sustainability of those ten School Football Academies (SFAs) schools (ie: resources like financial, manpower, etc.) which are the cornerstones of the update.

🙏 Are we getting full support from the Ministry of Education (MOE) on the setting up of these SFA schools? Let's hope so, especially it seems to me past blueprints like "Goal 2010" did not have the backing of the educators.

🏠 Besides MOE who must wholeheartedly support the "SFA" concept, I think to convince the parents of this UTR! is a viable project is equally important too.

🤝 While it seems that the UTR! received a booster with Borussia Dortmund (BvB) and LaLiga coming on board as strategic partners, there are concerns of the roles to be played by them who are being viewed as commercial entities by some.

🗣️ "... with the UTR! working with these commercial entities (BvB and LaLiga) which exist in this region for their marketing and branding objectives, for our country's technical development, are we getting what we need or buying what is sold to us?" queried football consultant Khairul Asyraf.

🇶🇦 Citing the example of Qatar Aspire Academy on how they recruit the best foreign technical talents to develop their local athletes, Khairul opined the Qatari infrastructure is created with their expertise, using foreign technology for the local context.

🔗 "We must build what is here first, these foreign links can come later when our cream can really compete or will benefit from stints and time there." added the former youth coach.

(P.S: Seems like the name of the project is confirmed?)

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ICYMI - KEEPING ON TRACK ...

Here is the list of sites to keep yourself up to date with the progress of "Unleash The Roar!" project.

🌐 https://www.unleashtheroar.com.sg/ (website)

📖https://www.facebook.com/unleashtheroarsingapore/ (Facebook)

🖼️ https://instagram.com/unleash.the.roar.sg (Instagram)

🎥 https://youtube.com/channel/UCOiyPjvK0vc50OvVyLwV9ww (YouTube)

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STILL TOO EARLY TO GAUGE ...

📝 "A sport long under the microscope in Singapore, a new phase could be beckoning for local football.

Against the backdrop of last year’s brave AFF Suzuki Cup campaign, with Singapore making it to the semi-final, an ambitious project called Unleash the Roar (UTR) is now underway." (CNA)

🤓 Very detailed and comprehensive article, but it's too early at this point to pass any judgement on those UTR! plans that I can see most of those being quoted are talking about the aspirations and positive side of it.

Maybe 2-3 years later down the road, an assessment on it would be appropriate.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sport/singapore-football-lions-spl-unleash-the-roar-538271

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GROUND HOPPING SOON

📍Some of the so-called "unused open fields" that can be utilized for football training, as claimed by some after I shared an #UnleashTheRoar article yesterday (9/3).

🧐 Will go and have a look when able to do so.

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