Chennai: Jeppiaar Engineering College, which is the Official Education Partner to Chennaiyin FC has recently launched a new school, Jeppiaar Chennaiyin FC Soccer School, which will provide a training platform and an opportunity to learn gameplay strategies in Football for students of Jeppiaar Matric and CBSE schools on Thursday.
The school was launched by actor and co-owner of Chennaiyin FC, Abhishek Bachchan and co-owner, Vita Dani at Jeppiaar Engineering college.
Jeppiaar educational institution already has a Sports Academy that has so far aided more than 450 economically underprivileged students with a scholarship and also has provided grass-root level training to talented individuals in football.
Some of the players from the academy have gone on to play football for top clubs like Pandiyan Srinivasan, who has been selected to play for the Chennaiyin FC professional team.