Fabiano Flora: How this Portuguese coach sees hopes for Nepal football in little Kathmandu kids

On a lukewarm winter afternoon, UFEA pro licence coach Fabiano Flora is putting 43 children through their paces at St Xavier School’s football ground in Lalitpur, a part of the Kathmandu valley. After giving the children aged between six and 16 a theory class, he keenly observes if they are doing what he has taught them.

Dividing them into three groups based on their age, Flora instructs the students to follow what they have been taught. He wants them to use the wide spaces before building attacks. When the kids do what he has asked them to do, his face lights up like a proud father watching his children.