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Existing Doha Airport to be 2022 Cup stadium Qatar to have high performance sports centres Doha: Doha Port Stadium- one of the nine new football stadiums that Qatar seeks to construct for the FIFA World Cup 2022 - will be built at the existing Doha International Airport, according to the Qatar Sports Venue Master Plan. The Qatar Sports Venue Master Plan was presented to the public for the first time on the third day of the four-day Aspire4Sport Congress which concluded on Thursday. The plan was introduced by Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Secretary General of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC), and presented by Abdul Rahman Al Malki, Director of Engineering at QOC. According to Qatar Sports Venue Master Plan, the FIFA World Cup 2022 hosts are planning to convert the existing airport into a multi-functional sports complex once the new airport becomes operational and the existing one is shut for air traffic. Work on the sports project is expected to begi...

Goa’s Melroy Fernandes on trail for Casa de Portugal Macau football club By Armstrong Vaz Career opportunities sometimes spring up from out of the blue and from the most unlikely places. That’s what is happening to 20-year-old Melroy Fernandes. The promising Goa junior goalkeeper is in Macau is on a two-month visit to train with Casa de Portugal, Macau football club. ‘ The Dramapur-village boy, from South Goa, has been with Churchill bros, the former I-league champions, since last season and has had been an understudy to two other goalkeepers. But all that has changed this season for Melroy. Instead of sunny shores of Goa he is now burning calories on the football fields in Macau. He is getting ready to play in exhibition matches called Bolinha, which takes place when the Divisao 1 (first division) takes a break. If things go according to a plan and if the club is happy about his performance in the Bolinha then Melroy may end up signing for the club next season. The Bolinh...

Franky Baretto, Saby Antao in race for coaching posts at GFDC By Armstrong Vaz Former international and East Bengal defender, Franky Baretto and former junior international and Mahindra United player, Saby Antao, are some of the notable candidates who have applied for the paid posts at the newly formed Goa Football Development Council (GFDC). Goa Football Development Council which was recently constituted by the state government, with its office at 7th Floor, 'Myles High' Building, Patto Plaza, Panaji, is “to advise the Government on all matters concerning the sport of football  and to coordinate and harmoniously complement the activities of the AIFF (All India Football Federation) the GFA (Goa football Assocaition), the SAG (Sports Authority of Goa), local governing bodies such as municipalities, Zilla Parishads and Panchayats, organizations promoting Football and other Government authorities and Departments.” Panjim-based cardiologist Rufino Monteiro has been appoi...

Doping   is an industry, says   honorary life president   of   FINA Doha:   Doping   is an industry which is one step ahead of the anti- doping   and there is a permanent war between fair play and doping , says   Mustapha Larfaoui, honorary Life President   of   Internationale Swimming Federation (FINA) Larfaoui doubts whether sports will win the fight against   doping.   “Sorry to say that, but I am not optimistic. There is a permanent war between fair play and the   doping . We will be winning some of the battles, but we will be losing the war. The problem is that there is an industry which produces and traffics all these prohibited substances and unfortunately   doping   is always one step ahead of the anti- doping .” The Algerian who has served as FINA president for 21 days lamented that lack of swimming competitions in the Arab world was having its effect the swimmers. “I think it is med...

On  a milky night on silver sands laid white lilies Its fragrance drew bees in thousands The strong was too addictive The odour gave fresh leash to many and a new twist to life Bees flocked to the silver sands in search of bliss Bees blown away by currents and sea waves to land in a alien land The bees, lilies, fragrance had not meaning for Pedro, the fisherman The sea was his world On the edge of the beach sat the fisherman's son pounding the sand The night and days were a turbulent lot cause he was to vote for the first time The fisherman engrossed in deep though of what the future hold him in golden Goa

Three footballers in Goa assembly election fray Margao: Three football players are trying their luck in the March 3 Goa assembly elections. Avertano Furtado, Benjamin D’Silva and Rajan Naik are the trio, who having toiled and sweat on the football field, are burning the midnight lamp to turn a leaf in a different field. They are vying for three seats in the 40-member assembly. Furtado, who during his career kept goal for Salgaocar sports club, an I-league club- the semi-professional Indian League – is testing his fortunes in the political arena for the first time. The six-footer is taking on the might of another six-foot plus political heavyweight of Goa – Churchill Alemao – the last named owns a family club Churchill Bros, which is one of the four Goan clubs playing in the I-league. Dempo Sports Club, owned by mining house, Sporting Clube De Goa are the other two clubs from the smallest state of India to feature in the top league of the country. Vasco Sports Club, which takes its nam...

GOA  ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2012  NAMES OF CONTESTING  CANDIDATES  Sr. No., AC. NO., Name of Assembly Constituency, Name, Party Name, Sex, Number of  Candidates  per AC 1,1, Mandrem, Dayanand Raghunath Sopte, Indian National Congress, Male,6 2,1, Mandrem, Laxmikant Parsekar, Bharatiya Janata Party, Male, 3,1, Mandrem, Menino Francis Monteiro,  Goa  Vikas Party, Male, 4,1, Mandrem, Sameer Salgaocar, All India Trinamool Congress, Male, 5,1, Mandrem, Sanjay Damu Kole, Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya), Male, 6,1, Mandrem, Sanjay Prabhu Dessai, Independent, Male, 7,2, Pernem (SC), Kanta Sabaji Jadhav, All India Trinamool Congress, Male,9 8,2, Pernem (SC), Manohar Rajaram Pednekar, Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya), Male, 9,2, Pernem (SC), Manohar Trimbak Ajgaonkar, Indian National Congress, Male, 10,2, Pernem (SC), Rajan Kambli, Independent, Male, 11,2, Pernem (SC), Rajendra Arlekar, Bharatiya Janata Party, Male, 12,2, Pernem (SC), Sakharam  Vishra...