{"id":11447,"date":"2015-03-03T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T12:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/03\/the-fa-backs-the-british-ethnic-diversity-awards\/"},"modified":"2016-01-11T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:57:17","slug":"the-fa-backs-the-british-ethnic-diversity-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/03\/the-fa-backs-the-british-ethnic-diversity-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The FA Backs the British Ethnic Diversity Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Manisha Tailor<\/h3>\n

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\nThe Lyca Mobile British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards 2015, co-founded by Sporting Equals, provides a unique opportunity to recognise sporting excellence.\u00a0 <\/p>\n


\nIt was an honour to attend the inaugural ceremony with The Football Association who had sponsored the \u2018Coach of the Year\u2019 Award. \u00a0

\nTaff Rahman, Academy coach at Tottenham, spoke of the importance of stakeholders like The FA to support such events, \u00a0

\n\u201cIt is of huge importance that stakeholders like The FA support such events.\u00a0 Events like this give Asian and those from different ethnic backgrounds, who are doing really well, a platform of encouragement to pursue a career in sport.\u00a0 It is great to see The FA supporting this.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nKevin Coleman, who works in Equality at The FA explained how this feeds into their broader spectrum of activities to promote inclusion within the game.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe FA have sponsored the \u2018Coach of the Year\u2019 award.\u00a0 This links to our broader strategy of making football more inclusive.\u00a0 We currently have a COACH bursary programme and mentoring programme all of which link into refereeing, playing or managing.\u00a0 I work on Asians in Football where the focus is to try and get more Asian representation across the board within the game.\u00a0 So this is part of a broader spectrum of activities that raise awareness of inclusion within football.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nWith the recent release of The FA\u2019s Anti-Discrimination action plan, this event certainly came at the right time and supports The FA\u2019s present and future work on promoting diversity within football. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe are here supporting the inaugural British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards.\u00a0 It is important that we get involved in the spirit of what these awards are all about.\u00a0 We have a very strong and robust commitment to the diversity agenda.\u00a0 We have just released the updated version of the Inclusion and Anti-Discrimination action plan which details not just work being done by The FA, but the PFA, Premier League, Football League, League Managers Association and campaign groups like Kick It Out as well, so this an extension of that work.\u00a0 We are sponsoring the \u2018Coach of the Year\u2019 award as coaching is key and front centre to everything that we do at The FA.\u00a0 We have produced great coaches for years and I think it is right and proper that we get behind that category.\u00a0 It is a good evening and we are proud to be part of it\u201d (Danny Lynch, Communications at The FA).<\/p>\n


\nChris Ramsey (Queens Park Rangers, manager) spoke of how important such events are to unearth and celebrate unsung heroes.\u00a0 \u201cThe awards are a great opportunity for achievements of the ethnically diverse community to honour achievements of those who would not usually be recognised.\u00a0 It also a time where we can celebrate unsung heroes who do so much work behind the scenes to ensure that all communities have access to sporting activities\u201d.<\/p>\n


\nIt is transparent that The FA are supporting, promoting and raising awareness of Equality within the game and it is extremely exciting to be part of such a prestigious organisation who really are trying to diversify football. \n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Manisha Tailor The Lyca Mobile British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards 2015, co-founded by Sporting Equals, provides a unique opportunity to recognise sporting excellence.\u00a0 It was an honour to attend the inaugural ceremony with The Football Association who had sponsored the \u2018Coach of the Year\u2019 Award. \u00a0 Taff Rahman, Academy coach at Tottenham, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-11447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contributors","tag-manisha-tailor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}