Subrata Pal (centre) once had to wait outside the gates of the Tata football academy in order to give a trial for admission, his image now features on the side of the team bus of Jamshedpur FC. Subrata Pal remembers the first time he came to Jamshedpur. Back in 2002, he was just a 15-year old boy looking to jump start his career by joining the city's Tata Football Academy. It was a journey that almost began in failure after he arrived a day late. A sympathetic coach let him give a trial which he ended up acing. "I'd say it was the turning point of my life. If you were a young football player in India, who wanted to be anything, you really wanted to go to Jamshedpur. It was a dream come...from ESPN FC News http://ift.tt/2zSGLmW
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