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Asian soccer stars to be discovered thanks to new FA-backed scheme.

Chelsea have teamed up with The FA, Kick It Out and the Asian Media Group in a search for young Asian football stars of the future.

Asian Soccer Star will see open trials for youngsters from Asian backgrounds during the May bank holiday with the most talented players being offered a three-day residential trial at the Club’s world class academy.

Zesh Rehman, the first British Asian player to play at all levels of the professional game, said: “I think clubs need to take a more active role and engage with their communities, and I think it’s a great project.

“Chelsea are a Premier League club with a massive profile across the world and I’m sure that other clubs can look at that and use it as a template for future reference.” For more details, please visit: http://www.thefa.com/

I am delighted and honoured to accept an offer from Lord David Triesman at The FA to become an ambassador for Englands bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. I hope to help the campaign in whatever that I can and hope its a success. England is one of 9 competitors bidding to host the 2018 or 2022 tournament. My role will enatail attending and participating in selected bid functi0ns that will take place over the course of the campaign.

To fnd out more about the Bid and the Ambassadors vist the following link.  http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2558/news/2009/10/23/1579510/england-2018-world-cup-bid-announces-ambassadors-squad

PFA MANAGEMENT COMMITEE:

Its a huge honour to be invited onto the Management Committee directly by Gordon Taylor. Gordon is doing great work for all its members. I had a greater insight into the excellent work being done when I attended the PFA recently in Manchester as Bradford City Delegate. To find out more about the delegates visit the following link: http://www.givemefootball.com/pfa/about-the-pfa/delegates
The role of the Management Committee is to liase with the Chief Executive and to give direction in fulfilling the objectives of the Organisation

PFA Supporting The Cause For More Asian Players

A Few months ago there was a very productive meeting with the PFA regarding the under representation of Asian players in Proffessional football. Bobby Barnes and Simone Pound kindly invited me to the PFA offices to discuss my career path and also help put suggestions to them on how to get the next generation of potential Asian players into the system. We also spoke about some of the cultural boundaries/obstacles that faced me on my route to becoming a footballer.

I feel very fortunate to be in the postion im in and nothing else would give me more pleasure than to see a steady incline in the number of Asian proffessionals over the coming years. The PFA are very active in helping to overcome this problem and with the feedback of myself, Adnan Ahmed (Tranmere Rovers) &Anwar Uddin (Dagenham & Redbridge) hopefully some of these issues can be tackled. No doubt it will be very diffucult to increase the numbers overnight but the interest and potential is definately there amongst Britains Asian community.

The official PFA website http://www.givemefootball.com/ has a section dedictaed to this issue. It can be found by clicking The Pfa and followed by clicking the PFA and anti racism.

Web Design Solution (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)

I am lucky to have Web Design Solution for my web site design and maintenance services. They are experienced, professional and efficient in their web and logo design services. They have also created my logo which shows their great skills of logo design. Web Design Solution is a Huddersfield, West Yorkshire based web design, logo design, internet marketing and search engine optimisation (SEO) company . They are facilitating clients from all over the UK specially Leeds, Manchester, Bolton, Bradford, Birmingham, London and Glasgow.

Web design solution design and develop high quality professional websites at affordable prices, the packages starts from as low as £99. The important thing, I am really impressed with their working procedure, that they work closely with their client throughout the web site design and development process to ensure client is completely satisfied with the end result.

AMBASSADOR FOR THE PRINCES TRUST

Its an honour to be an ambassador for the Princes Trust. The Princes Trust is the Uk's leading youth charity, committed to helping to change lives. It provides support, training and mentoring to 14-30 year olds, helping them find work and discover their true potential. Like football The Princes Trust brings together young people from different backgrounds and communities. Through partnership with The Premier League, The PFA and The Football Foundation the Trust is working with over 60 Proffessional clubs using the power of football to help change lives in the UK. Visit Prince's Trust website at http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/ to find out more.

Childrens Today Charity

zesh and Liz Oakes

Hopefully through the power of football and the positive impact it can have on peoples lives it will help to put a smile on some of these childrens faces and improve thier lives for the better.

I will be working with Elizabeth Oakes from the charity to try and continue their good work. For more information visit http://www.children-today.org.uk/

See the latest story on the website http://www.children-today.org.uk/category/events/

Zesh and Danny Lunch from "Kick It Out"

Kick It Out

Last night It was great to take part in the anti racism campaign for kick it out, who are dedicated to tackling race issues at all levels of the game. The event was held at the FA head quarters in Soho Square. It was called "one game" There a wide range of people present from coaches, players (my self and Jamie Lawrence), governing bodies such as the football foundation and also groups of people who are doing some excellent work in the communities at grass roots level across london.

The event was showcased by Piara Powar who is doing terrific work across the U.K to help spread the anti racism message so it can be stamped out of the game at all levels. You can read more about the evening on the Kick it out website (www.kickitout.org./). Overall it was a very worthwhile evening and pleasing to know there is lots of great work being done by a whole host of people using the power of football as the main difference maker. It was a pleasure to participate in the event.

Show Racism The Red Card

Last friday saw participation in the national Show Racism The Red Card event which is an organistaion using high profile players and managers to help irradicate the racism issue from the game. The event took place in Harrow with local school children asking questions to a panel consisting of my self, Damion Delaney, Leroy Rosenior and Dave Basset.

It went very well and hopefully we helped to educate those children on how to combat racism and how to report it and deal with it. Football is the perfect vehicle to help spread the anti racism message and is a power weapon in terms of helping to bridge cultural gaps in our society.

Hopefully a video link will be set up shortly so it will be possible to watch the Interviews and also watch the question and answer session for the show racism the red card event. For more information visit website at http://www.srtrc.org/

PFA MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

http://www.givemefootball.com/pfa/about-the-pfa/management-committee