04/05/2020
Sports Authority of India has started a Sports Training Centre in the premises of VK Krishna Menon indoor Stadium, Calicut (Kozhikode), Kerala on 06th Sept 1991. It was then called SAI Sports Hostel, which was aimed at spotting the youngsters talented in sports and to nurture them systematically to future Medal Hopes in National Inter National level competitions.
The Centre has started with just four discipline viz.Athletics, Volleyball. Volleyball was continued to be a regular discipline at the Centre expect 1992-93 & 1993-94. So far around 170 boys were trained in volleyball at this Centre, from which the following 22 boys donned the Colour of the Country in various Inter National level Volleyball / Beach Volleyball competitions in different categories:
1. Tom Joseph
2. PV Sunil Kumar
3. E Kishore Kumar
4. R. Rajive
5. S. Vinod
6. TK Sreesh
7. Jinson Varghese
8. Sayooj TP
9. Azeez Thayambath
10. Vibin M. George
11. Paul Joseph
12. Manu V.
13. Sarathchandran PS
14. Jayakumar VV
15. Shefeek KK
16. Vijesh VM
17. Sajay OS
18. Manu Joseph
19. Sanjith OS
20. Fasil KM
21. Anu James
22. Arjunnath LS
23. Akash S Kumar
24. Jobin Varghese
In addition to this more than 40boys attended various National camps during their tenure in SAI.
Large numbers of boys from this Centre were appointed in various departments. List of SAI Calicut boys representing different departmental Volleyball teams are given below:
Sl No. Name Dept. Remarks
1 Tom Joseph
BPCL Kochi
2 Kishore Kumar E.
3 Rajive R.
4 Sayooj TP
5 Vibin M. George
6 Jithin N.
7 Azeez Thayambath First joined customs then to BPCL and Left for Gulf
1 Wilson Mathew INDIAN
RAILWAYS Central Railway
2 Sunil Kumar PV Southern Railway
3 James John ,,
4 Nashfu KV ,,
5 Bineesh P. ,,
6 Vijesh VM ,,
7 Manu Joseph ,,
8 Premchand P. ,,
9 Jins Mathew West Central Railway
10 Praveen Singh South Western Railway
11 Sajeev Kumar S. RPF
12 Althaf Shakeer East CentralRailway
1 Paul Joseph Cochin Port Trust,
Kochi NIS Qualified
2 Prajeev M
3 Ansar VK
4 Shijo Thomas
5 Vinod S.
6 Muhammed JM Kolkatta Port Trust
7 Jijo George Guest player completed BTech. Now working in USA
1 Mujeer CK KSEB
2 Adarsh Menon
3 Santhosh Kodakkal
4 Ajesh TS
5 Cyril Emmanuel
6 Anu James
7 ShanavasTK Joined as Guest but Left for Gulf
8 Subair NP Joined as Guest but Left for Gulf
1 Sreesh TK Cochin Customs, Kochi
2 Shijo Thomas
3 Abdul Raheem U.
4 Gokul RS
1 Manoj Mathew Indian Army MEG
2 Jaleel PM MEG
3 Siby Mathew MEG
4 Martin John MEG
5 Sanam S. MEG
6 Arun Kumar R MEG
7 Sajeesh GS Artillery
8 Shiju M. Artillery
9 Joby PF Artillery
10 Sachin AT Artillery
11 Vishnu KP Artillery
12 Aswindas PM Artillery
13 Alan Baby Artillery
14 Sarathchandran PS Signals
15 Arun MG Signals
16 Anoop PP Signals
17 Sooraj Babu KV EME (NIS Qualified)
18 Ragesh KJ ASC (NIS Qualified)
19 Abdul Jaleel KK AOC
20 Ramith Kumar MP MRC
1 Jijo K. Chacko
Indian Navy
2 Anil Rajan
3 Hareesh MP
4 Shinto Eliyas
5 Sajay OS
6 Arjunnath LS
7 Fasil KM
1 Jayakumar VV Indian Air Force
2 Shefeek KK
3 Joshin John
1 Yasar Arafath Kerala Police
2 Anil George
3 Latheef
4 Manu V.
5 Jibin sebastian
1 Anzari S. Titanium
1 Jinson Varghese IOB, Chennai
1 Rajeevan Nair India Posts
2 Ramesh Kumar Left and own IOC agency
Training Facilities: Regular training taking place in the Indoor Stadium, adjacent to SAI Centre. Whenever the stadium is engaged, trains at St. Joseph’s College Grounds, Devagiri.
Boarding & Lodging: Trainees are accommodated in two/three bedded attached rooms in hostel. Boarding . 247/- per head per day.
Trainees are also provided with sports kit, Educational assistance, competition TA/DA, Insurance & Medical assistance.
The list of players in the different department mentioned in the above list is the completed one.
