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Socorro Vaz charts Goa's football progress through Futsal Margao: It’s rainy season in Goa, and it rains cats and mouse in the coastal state of India. Time to have some real hot hot pakoda’s and roasted cashew nuts along with your evening tea before you venture out to play football in the muddy water of your local playground. The local playground may be available or not available for Rui and his friends depending on which grounds they want to spend playing football. Local grounds constructed by government and maintained by Sports Authority of Goa in different villages and cities are a strict no go for Rui and his friends. Rui is not the only one in football-crazy Goa who wants to enjoy playing football in the rainy season. There are many others. Gavin is one of them and he has had no problem of rains and lack of grounds throughout the season for the last three years. Gavin is a new breed of young aspiring footballers who pay...

Football is worth saving in Goa Football is worth saving. Goa Football Association needs to take its ball and make it talk.  It is past time to rid of lethargy at GFA. It is like a gangrenous limb that requires amputation before the infection spreads and the beautiful game becomes decayed beyond all possible recognition. Yes, football is still unquestionably the most popular sport on the planet. But a cloistered, corrupt like situation cannot function in a WikiLeaks world. It’s easy to be cynical about all of this, but cynicism is a luxury we can no longer afford.   Anyone paying attention to the myriad injustices emerging in the Goan football of the 21st century can see that the stakes are a great deal higher than whether a few palms are greased.

Goan football gone, going…….. down the drain By Armstrong Vaz Goan football is heading towards turbulent times. The alarm bells were ringing for long. The intensity has increased and reached its peak. Wilred Leisure has opened the floodgates of what is forecasted to be a tsunami. Wilred’s pulling out from the ten-team Goa Professional League (GPL), which is due to start in August, is one of the first major setback for the new Executive Committee of Goa Football Association (GFA), which took charge on July 27. The club pulled a fast one on GFA.  The company-sponsored club has a past, which no one likes to have against its name – match-fixing.   In 2004, Curtorim Gymkhana, Sangolda Lighting Club, Wilred Leisure and Dona Paula SC brought shame to Indian and Goan football by fixing matches. Two matches played, one in South Goa and the other in North of the state, saw an astonishing 118 goals being scored, in the play-off matches of the second division. ...

Time for new committee to take over at Goa Football Association Goa Football Association Executive Committee 2010-2014 President: Mr. Shrinivas V. S. Dempo Vice - Presidents: Mr. Elvis Gomes, Mr. Lavinio Jude Rebello Co-Opted Members: Dr. Susana De Sousa, Mr. Anthony John D'costa Members: Mr. Alirio Lobo, Mr. Angelo Albuquerque,Mr. Anthony Pango, Mr. Babli K. Mandrekar, Mr. Benedito B. Themudo, Mr. Benjamin Silva, Mr. Gajanan Kerkar Mr. Lawrence Gomes, Mr. Prakash Naik, Mr. Sanjiv S. Nagvekar, Mr. Savio Messias, Mr. Schubert Furtado, Mr. Uday Lingudkar and Mr. Welvin Menezes