KFANDRA was formed in the year 2000 and then registered under the Charity commissioner in 2001. The aim of the Academy was to coach kids in a professional manner, while at the same time teaching them moral values. At it's inception, a strong Mens team was also formed and the kids at the Academy were urged to dream of playing for the adult team.
For the technically advanced in football, opportunities such as trials with professional clubs were arranged, so that the players could have a chance at turning pro. Unfortunately, Rugby was a sport that was unheard of in this country and KFANDRA introduced it in Pune. Rugby was used more as a strength and personality building tool as there was not future in rugby professionally. Incredibly, the fees charged were negligible and some kids never paid at all as KFANDRA did not charge those family's that could not afford to pay even the smallest fee. Practice was held every day of the week for 2 hours in the evenings.
More than a decade later, the Academy realized that a majority of the urban youth were not inclined to pursue the chance of turning pro as it required time and an unfaltering dedication to succeed. Especially as the path to turn pro was not defined clearly. Football in Pune and for that matter, India, is not conducted in a way that is conducive to a healthy and comfortable future. But along the way, KFANDRA created quite a few players that ended up playing for their State of Maharashtra and managed to field a group of teenagers in the local tournaments against adults sometimes twice or thrice their age. And some of the greatest achievements by KFANDRA was to create a girls team in both football and rugby. The girls proved that they were just as good as the boys when a few players played at the national level in football, while in rugby the KFANDRA Womens team was the first team in the entire country to play an official Rugby Union 7's match against a Womens team from Hong Kong. They were also the first to play a 15's match in India as well. The girls and women also achieved a feat that KFANDRA had never achieved before, which was for some of the players to pull on their international jersey's because they were selected to play for their country.
The revenue was negligible though and eventually, with the ground rent sky rocketing, KFANDRA had to call it a day in 2018.
It was in 2005/2006 when Thunderboltz approached Mr. Khare to coach them. To cut a long story short, TZ allowed Mr. Khare to begin a tournament that ran for up to 8 months in a year, which focused on the ethos and punctuality. Another organization that Khare ended up coaching, KITFO/SAS also joined the tournament. The TZLC was separate from FIFA and Khare has even published it's own set of rules, called the HandyHandbook.
The list of players went over 100 until during the lock down in June '20. During this period, Khare resigned from KITFO/SAS. Recently the reformed TZLC became the KTZLC and had over 60 members aged from 16 upwards, with the oldest player in his fifties, which was headed by KFANDRAAI.
November 2020
Khare resigned from Thunderboltz and is now running everything through KFANDRAAI. He has stated that he has worked for 15+ years at TZ as an employee and now the time has come, where he wants to do what he did for others, for the benefit of others, to set off on his own and take total control.
April 2022
The name KFANDRAAI was withdrawn and is back to being called KFANDRA.
May 2022 to June 2023
KFANDRA introduced a new system where the players did their warm up and stretching through audio recordings, known at KFANDRA as WOOS (WarmUP - WOO and Stretching - S). This frees up time for the Coach Sir to set up the drills for the session.
Quite a few new drills were also created, such at the 6 minute kill drill, minutes of madness and many more.
The KLC4 was a grand success, even after the unceremonious exit of the group of players from outside of KFANDRA (ACU), that was to take part in it. KFANDRA made a few changes to ensure that the KLC4 could continue being competitive. NSTTP (The Northern and Southern Territorial Pact) created by 'The Almighty Zoltan' was introduced to replace ACU.
The Quasi-Membership Initiative was chucked in the rubbish bin and KFANDRA vowed never to allow non-members from participating again.
Until a few months down the line when a player on trial for membership of KFANDRA, accused KFANDRA of 'insulting' his parents and stating that it was too 'tiring to be respectful and say sorry constantly', KFANDRA created two 'Departments' (HOOLI and PNMIM) to look after the possible re-entry of non-members into the KLC and new membership aspirants.
The two Departments have been converted to one, the PNMID.
