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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  Vishram Korgaonkar, Independent, Male, 13,2, Perne