Socorro Vaz charts Goa's football progress through Futsal
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
to get trained in football, a new trend which is creeping into the state, like
in some metropolitan cities of the country.
For Gavin and his friends, the muddy waters and getting wet
in the rains is not a problem. He trains indoors at Chowgule College Indoor
Futsal grounds.
For three days of the week he trains for two hours on the
watchful eyes of Socorro Vaz, an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) C licence
coach for the last ten years and an AFC Futsal level 1 coach for the last 3
years.
We charge a small fee per month for each child as we have to
pay a rent for use of the facilities here,” says Socorro, chief coach and
founder of Youth Futsal Academy.
“We start from the age of 4 years and above.
“I was one of the three Goan participants selected by AIFF
to attend the Futsal Level 1Coaching Course organized by AFC in December 2011.
After finishing the course I wanted to do something for Futsal in Goa and with
the single purpose of putting into practice what I had learnt, I started the
youth Futsal Academy in February 2012,” recalls Socorro.
“The parents of some of the Margao schools had been urging
me to start a coaching programme for many years after I stopped coaching
Manovikas in 2007. We started with 22 students and now we have an average
strength of 60 per month. We train both boys and girls.
“We are focusing on Futsal as it builds up a lot of skills
which helps the footballers in the normal game of football,” said Socorro, who
completed the Futsal level 1 License Course in 2011.
The 55-year-old from Fatorda, Margao is not new to coaching
young footballers of the last two and a half decades he has been coaching
schools and higher secondary schools in and around the city.
He has also numerous coaching seminars and grassroot
coaching course conducted by Goa Football Association and All India Football
Federation widening his knowledge and imparting the things he has learnt to the
children.
“I participated in a football course conducted by Goa
Football Association under Chief Indian Coach Islam Akemedov in the year 2000 and five years later
I was there for an AIFF Grassroot coaching course held in Kolkata conducted by
Dr. Saji Prabhakar,” recalls Socorro.
He also was one of the few coaches from Goa who benefitted
from the tie-up between GFA and Portugal Universities in the field of football.
“Teaching and
Training youth Footballers For coaches ,
conducted by the Faculty of Sports Sciences and Physical education of the University of Porto
Portugal, Workshop on Nutritional Plan for Peak Performance for footballers
conducted by Dr. Jose Augusto Santos (Ph.
D) University of Porto Portugal and Teaching and Training Youth Footballers For Coaches U-12”conducted by Faculty of
Sports Sciences and Physical Education of the University of Porto, Portugal,
were some of the courses conducted I have had the privilege to attend,” said Socorro.
Socorro also attended Grassroots Coaching Session conducted
by Manchester United at Manchester United training grounds at Carington England
for three days in August 2008.
He is also qualified to handle any emergencies on the play
field having under training on Sports injuries and First aid conducted by
Directorate of Sports , Government of Goa and Basic Life Support Training
Program organized by Disaster Management Cell Indian Medical Association Goa
State Branch in Association with Goa Football Development Council.
Besides coaching Manovikas School U-12, U-14 and U-17 Boys
and Girl Football teams from the year May 2001 to October 2007 he has also
coached the state U-14 team for the All India Football Festival in Kolkata in February
2005.
Two years later, he accompanied the State U-16 team as
manager for the Sub-Junior nationals in Uttaranchal and earlier assisted the
State U-15 team in their training sessions in Goa ahead of their exposure trip to
Portugal.
Besides his coaching at the Youth Futsal Academy Socorro
used to also train the Fr. Agnel Ashram Multipupose High School U-14 and U-17
Teams and Higher Secondary Teams for the last four years till recently when he
joined Goa Football Development Council (GFDC) in January 2014 as a Football Development
Officer Coaching.
“I have also been associated with Salgaocar Sports Club age
groups earlier (U-15 & U-16) teams from September 2007 to September 2008,”
he recalls.
Training
timings and contact details: Mon: 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm, Wed: 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm and Fri: 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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