The former India international footballers from Kerala- Rino Anto, CK Vineeth, NP Pradip, Mohammed Rafi, and Anas Edathodika's unique effort to explore potential boys across the country by traveling across the country by car for the last 145 days finally ended in July. 

They traveled all the states, starting in February from Kerala and visited Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, the states in NorthEast, the states of Northern India, and finally Ladakh via Jammu & Kashmir.

According to plans, the project named F-13 Academy under the management of the 13th Foundation will witness 10 residential football schools in 10 states and 60 centres in Kerala out of which one has been planned to run for the potential but from underprivileged and tribal communities. 

Rino Anto, one of the architects of the project revealed, "Initially each of 10 academies in other states will have 60 kids, aged under-14. We will have a central academy where the spotted boys from all our centers will join and they will be nurtured before being released for the professional football teams." 

In a bid to educate its coaches and create opportunities for quality training of the academy boys the 13th Foundation also plans to make a tie-up with an ISL club in the future. The purpose is to invite the experienced coach from the ISL team to educate local coaches and to create an opportunity where the young footballers of F-13 academy can train with the ISL team players.

Rino also revealed, "We received a huge response while traveling across the country. Several former Indian international footballers in their respective states expressed willingness to join our program. We also found the enthusiasm among the kids over football but many places lack infrastructural back-up also.”

For example, Rinto added, "We found a few schools in Ladakh where the kids play the game spontaneously. However, those schools do not have infrastructural support. There are some places where lack of proper guidance was vivid.”