Fr Agnel Ashram Verna Goa, Youth Champions League winners yet to receive prize money
Youth Champions League winners yet to receive prize money By Armstrong Vaz Margao : The Youth Champions League was dubbed as ‘India’s biggest youth tournament’ but it turned out to be contrary. Instead the badly organized show lowered the image of Goan and Indian football in the eyes of the public. That’s not the end. It has now emerged that some of the schools and clubs teams which took part in the tournament are yet to receive the prize money, almost a year passed after the tournament ended at the Nehru Stadium on October 28. Fr. Agnel Ashram Higher Secondary School Verna, is one team which participated and won the top honours, who are yet to receive the winner’s purse of Rs.50,000 which is due to them. “We are yet to receive the prize money. We paid Rs.12,000 as entry fee and we were promised Rs 50,000- as winners which was mentioned in the entry form which was given to us, but sadly we are yet to receive it,” informed Ivan D’Sa Physical Education teacher at th...