Building Coalitions For Creativity
Author : Sunny Narang
Source : Facebook Archives
First Published Date : 2nd August, 2018
Nikhil Sharma is a young man from Pune , who left his corporate job in a media company in Mumbai to follow his dream in sports , especially in football.
He worked under my mentoring for almost 4 years in which he was a Director on Shillong Lajong Football Club (SLFC) the first football club from North East to enter I League , looking at team building and co-creating the only ISL football club of North East India , the NorthEast United FC .
He built new web of relationships from football clubs in India and in many other countries that love football.
He has a single minded dedication to building the football ecology of India from grassroots scouting to players to federations to leagues to coaches to infrastructure to clubs .
He himself is a certified football coach .
As life goes , I moved out of all operations to take a sabbatical from entrepreneurship and do light touch mentoring and informally work in the intersection of politics , policy , innovation , start ups and entrepreneurship .
And delight in my love of the diversity of cultures and communities of our indefinable Des .
So Nikhil set out to build his own enterprise which would single mindedly just work on football and everything associated with it .
He has created a small start up zlait with two partners Sourabh Yadav and Gibran Rahman both Delhi NCR boys .
They are managing Indian and Foreigner football players , building football infrastructure and consultants at large for clubs and leagues , amateur , recreational , professional .
As I shared before LEH LEH Sports built it’s first synthetic turf , it was built by zlait .
This is my larger start up family , in most I have zilch monetary investment but they all believe in following ones passion .
It will soon come together via my Sutradhaar site Rasa Investments Group to share the stories of those that follow their own passions and support others in theirs .
As I say “Building Coalitions for Creativity.”
