A top-rated landmark Soccer Academy is part of the innovative Phuket International Academy Sports and Leisure Club (PIASLC) is preparing to become Asia’s unsurpassed competition, training and event facility when it opens this November. Combining a outstanding location with unequaled facilities, it is already attracting notice among leading worldwide sporting institutions and international corporations.
PIASLC is set on 54 acres of land in the northeastern region of Phuket, Thailand. It boasts a broad assortment of high-class sports facilities that include an International Rugby Board-standard rugby pitch, FIFA-approved Limonta “Soccer Pro’’ soccer field, Phuket’s only competition standard 50-metre eight lane outdoor swimming pool (suitable for water polo and competitive swimming), a fully shaded 25 metre, eight lane swimming pool, toddler’s and children’s pools and play area, 6 tennis courts, a 500 metre athletics running track and a fitness enthusiast gymnasium, along with a performing arts centre and a Thai Herbal Garden Spa. Phuket International Academy Sports and Leisure Club Sports, Leisure and Events Centre.
Accommodations are available in the form of two boutique hotels, offering one hundred and fifteen well-appointed rooms and suites for visitors, athletes, teams and corporate groups. The Sports and Leisure Club has quickly earned appreciation through high-profile association with international sporting organizations including Brazilian Soccer Schools (BSS), NZRugbyResources (NZRR), and IronKids Triathlon. Announcement of tennis and swimming partnerships are anticipated soon.
The PIASLC is being positioned as the leading sports and corporate event center in Asia. Not only providing Asia’s pre-eminent facilities for sports but also brilliant facilities and accommodations for conferences, incentives, retreats and teambuilding.
PIASLC announced “Being in Phuket is a big advantage. It is not only an exotic location but the most exciting component of what we are doing is that every element of the club has been planned down to the finest detail from using cutting edge materials and equipment to employing the most qualified staff to manage and coach at the club.”
NZRugbyResources Director, David Adamson, said “Rugby is an extremely popular sport throughout Asia and growing in numbers every year and NZRugbyResources believes this is the finest training and playing facility in Asia. It is just amazing how much detail has gone into the planning.”
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The PIASLC has also announced an partnership with the US-based IronKids programme. This partnership will support four junior Triathlon events each year as well as training camps for children aged between 6 and 15.
The PIASLC has added former professional tennis player David Roberts as Director of Operations to oversee the day-to-day operations at the new Phuket, Thailand sports centre. David offers experience in both operations and pre-openings. He has run elite private sports clubs while with Centara Hotels and Resorts Group. When the PIASLC completes preparations in November and begins into full operations he will be focused on the co-ordination between club services, sports academies and membership programmes.
The PIA Sports and Leisure Club, or, PIASLC is sited in an environment of natural beauty amidst the foothills of a national park on the eastern part of Phuket, Thailand. PIA is an integrated facility hosting Phuket’s newest International School, a versatile Sports and Leisure Club for elite athletes, amateur enthusiasts, artists and wellness seekers – all within the Mind Centre sanctuary that provides training in the cultivation of mental and emotional equilibrium. PIA is a convenient drive near Phuket International Airport and includes two 38-room comfortable hotels and facilities that are great for Meetings, Conventions and Events of all kinds.
As part of a uniquely integrated complex, the Sports and Leisure Club works in synergy with both the PIADS and PIAMC. The PIADS is working to become a three programme International Baccalaureate (IB) World School. The Phuket International Academy Day School has high-quality facilities, teachers, trainers, staff and administration. Click this link for additional information on the Phuket International Academy Day School International School Thailand.
As part of a total commitment to sports excellence the PIAMC has started to make available training in the cultivation of cognitive and emotional balance. The Phuket International Academy Mind Centre will offer a combination of modern psychology and neuroscience in association with ancient Asian contemplative practices. Working in close interaction with the PIA Day School and the PIA Sports and Leisure Club, the programmes offered through Phuket International Academy Mind Centre will contribute to everyone’s enhanced mental balance
and wellbeing. Some retreats incorporates two methods for cultivating meditative quiescence or shamatha. It teaches the practice of “mindfulness of breathing”, which is a successful technique for relaxing the body and calming the mind. A second method taught is both a shamatha practice and vipashyana, “insight meditation” or “settling the mind in its natural state”. Phuket International Academy Mind Centre Meditation, Mind Studies, and Retreats.
