About TFL

TheFootballLink Sport Private Limited (TFL) is one of India’s premier football organizations with professional expertise in organizing large scale football initiatives for development of grassroots football.

Our proprietary technology, the F-Cube, is the world’s first intelligent and interactive touch-based device for Football and Fitness assessment and monitoring. It was launched by the then Honorable Sports Minister of India at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in 2014.

Since our inception in 2012, TFL has organized numerous football initiatives and programs, and continues to strive for more.

80000 +
Children
5000 +
Parents
800+
Coaches
80 +
NGOs
150 +
Schools
5
International Clubs
25 +
Colleges
30 +
Govt. Bodies

CHETAN MISRA - FOUNDER

Chetan Misra graduated from Delhi Public School, RK Puram, New Delhi, completed his Electrical Engineering/Economics degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta and then worked as a Research Engineer in Washington DC. Chetan returned to India in 2010 with an aim of deploying immersive tech in the Indian Football ecosystem. He is currently spearheading Zinc Football, as a Turnkey Strategy and Implementation Partner of Hindustan Zinc Ltd, a Vedanta Group Company at Zawar, Rajasthan. As part of this CSR initiative, F-Cube Technology is being used to monitor, assess and develop football skills at scale across 64 villages and 2500 children. Prior to that, he set up his own F-Cube-powered Excellence centre in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.

A Football Association (FA) England Level-2 coach, he has worked with more than 25,000 Football players, both boys and girls across various age groups and socio-economic segments in India. He has been instrumental in developing the Delhi Police Yuva program for Football and has been felicitated by the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi for his work with underprivileged footballers. For his work, he has been recognized by Times Now-Amazing Indians, CNBC-Young Turks, Mahindra – Spark the Rise nominee at Times Now Awards, TATA-IIM Calcutta Top 20 social enterprise in India amongst many others.

Management Team

Biraja Misra

Biraja Misra

Chairman

Biraja Misra, chairman of TheFootballLink, has more than 49 years of experience in senior management roles in India and abroad. A Mechanical Engineer from BITS Pilani, he did his MBA from UCLA, USA and believes that sports can be a major game-changer in Indian society and has been instrumental in laying the ethos and vision of TheFootballLink.

Rahul Sharma

Rahul Sharma

Finance

A commerce graduate from Bangalore University and CA from ICAI, Rahul has over 10 years of extensive experience in financial activities including payroll, cash management, forecast and budgeting, internal audits, fund raising and supervising individual property controllers and accounting systems. Rahul makes sure that our money is in the right hands.

Partners

Since its inception, TheFootballLink has been tirelessly involved with various organizations to spread the love for Football across different age groups, genders and communities, both privileged and underprivileged.

HINDUSTAN ZINC

TheFootballLink are the official Strategy & Implementation partners of the Zinc Football program, Vedanta Hindustan Zinc’s flagship CSR initiative in Rajasthan.

www.hzlindia.com

SPORTS AUTHORITY OF INDIA

TheFootballLink were awarded with a 5-year MoU by the Sports Authority of India to develop grassroots Football across the country.

www.sportsauthorityofindia.nic.in

COACHES ACROSS CONTINENTS

Coaches Across Continents is a global Sports for Development (S4D) NGO that works with organizations and youth leaders across the world. TheFootballLink has been CAC’s partner since 2014 and organizes the Sports for ‘Social Impact Camp’ for Football Coaches each year.

coachesacrosscontinents.org

WE HAVE WORKED WITH

TheFootballLink offers businesses experience and expertise to Plan, Strategise and Execute Turnkey Football Initiatives while connecting key stakeholders in the Indian ecosystem. Football has seen a meteoric rise in its acceptance and popularity across the country and TheFootballLink is the best placed to understand its impact in execution.
THEFOOTBALLLINK
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