''Federation International de Football Association'' (FIFA) has communicated its consent for setting up an academy in appreciation of its successful implementation of ''Vision Asia'' project" state Sports Council President T P Dasan confirmed.
He said the work would be started as soon as the state government allots ten acres of land for the ambitious scheme. Efforts were on by the Kerala Football Association and the Sports Council to get the land as soon as possible, he added.
Sports and Youth affairs minister P.Vijayakumar has said that preliminary steps for the setting up of the academy has already begun.
From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Friday 5 June 2009, restored from the site's 2012 database. Text as originally published.