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AIA organizes soccer coaching clinic, donates balls for Manado children
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Happy players: Young soccer players in Manado, North Sulawesi pose together for a photograph after taking part in a coaching session led by British soccer team Tottenham Hotspur’s international development coach Shaun Harris. The children also received soccer balls, courtesy of life insurance company PT AIA FINANCIAL’s (AIA) initiative AIA Sepak Bola Untuk Negeri (Soccer for the Nation). (Photo courtesy of AIA)
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ife insurance company PT AIA Financial (AIA) has recently organized a soccer coaching clinic as well as donating soccer balls to young soccer players in Manado, North Sulawesi as part of the company’s AIA Soccer for the Nation (AIA Sepak Bola Untuk Negeri) initiative to groom a new generation of soccer players in Indonesia as well as showcases the company’s strong commitment to help people live healthier, longer, better lives.
AIA conducted the event on Aug. 8 in the Klabat soccer stadium in Manado, with British soccer team Tottenham Hotspur’s (Spurs) International Development Coach Shaun Harris as well as Indonesian soccer player Firman Utina facilitating the coaching clinic.
Harris stated that he was pleased to work with many talented young Indonesian soccer players during his participation in the AIA soccer development initiative.
“I am very fortunate to get a chance to meet these extraordinary children, helping them hone their soccer skills along the way. I hope they will be able to apply the skills they acquire through the coaching clinic, to help them maximize their potentials, while inspiring them to adopt a healthier lifestyle,” Harris said.
Firman, meanwhile, said that the coaching clinic participants were very enthusiastic in joining the training regimen.
“I believe this training is very useful to instill discipline into young soccer players, while motivating them to keep sharpening their skills so that they can become professional soccer players in the future, while reaping a maximum benefit from their sports activities, both inside and outside the stadium,” Firman added.
“The initiative embodies our commitment to help the general public adopt a healthier lifestyle – useful to help them attain a healthier, longer and better life. Simultaneously, the program also seeks to boost soccer development in Indonesia,” AIA Legal, Compliance and Risk Director Rista Qatrini Manurung said.
Rista added that AIA accomplished the mission to develop Indonesian soccer by grooming young athletes through the coaching clinic and soccer ball donation activities.
In addition to the coaching clinic, AIA also donated soccer balls to the Manadonese children. AIA donated a total of 1,500 balls to children living in Manado and Makassar, South Sulawesi. AIA donated a total of 10,000 soccer balls to children across Indonesia throughout the initiative, with the help of logistics company PT Tiki Jalur Nugraha Ekakurir, (JNE) which distributes the balls.
JNE Marketing Vice President Eri Palgunadi said that the company had decided to support AIA’s soccer initiative because it was aligned with the company’s latest tagline, connecting happiness.
“With JNE’s network of 6,000 distributors across the nation, reaching Indonesia’s remote areas, we are ready to deliver happiness to children across Indonesia through the soccer balls,” he said.
