· In one of the magnificent goals scored beautifully directly from the Corner Kick into the far right corner of the Goa goal, by Chennayin’s foreign recruit Crivellaro on 19th of this month putting his team ahead against the favourite FC Goa whose chances are becoming slim to move ahead in this year’s edition of ISL. Such goals are rarity now a days because to score such goals one has to do tremendous amount of practice with long hours of toiling on the football ground with utmost dedication. [A1] However, in the late fifties one famous Salgaocar player Eustaqio from Calangute used to score such fabulous goals directly from the Corner kicks with perfection. He used to practice alone in their field for long hours byn yet he was atill very good. He was the only one of that type of a player who was capable of scoring goals direct from the Corner Kicks. The other player who has perfected the art of scoring such beautiful goals directly from the Corner Kicks was Levino who was my colleague at Sesa Goa but earler he donned to colours of Academica Pannjim where that genius Pe. Chico Monteiro trained Levino to play attractive soccer.
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· Coming back to the FC Goa suffering a defeat of 1-2 goals from the Chennayin FC, I must say openly and loudly that compared to the last season, this season Goa is very much weakened in the absence of their few best players namely Coro, Boumous, Mandar and others. They are not replaceable, there is long years of hard work of torturing of their robust bodies and also their heads which gave them the required experience to play the high level of soccer. These attributes are not the purchasable commodities and those who got no experience of handling such situation then they should not run the soccer teams. What is the quality and experience of Casinos running and the foot-ball team running? Just because you are good in running the most sinful business of Casinos where there is nothing good but only the curses then FC Goa will never come up. FC Goa team first of all should not have released the mentioned players, they should have been retained by all means instead of releasing them to the FC Mumbai where even by paying more for their services they should have been retained. Secondly, the sacking of Coach Sergio Lobero who was one of the top Coaches and was responsible to tuning the FC Goa to the top level and when he did so much for FC Goa, his services should have been retained. The current Coach of FC Goa looks like a Novice and a Bach’cha. The Deltin the owner of FC Goa looks not interested in the promotion of FC Goa nor development of Goan soccer, they it looks to me are interested in exploiting the name GOA only. “Ghanttiani Goencho development kelolo mhonn adim konne tori aikolam”? One fine morning they will abdicate their responsibilities and like Mickey Pacheco one fine morning close their operations in Goa and with it close their team too by citing financial problem.
Will we develop our soccer by allowing so many players from outside Goa and outside India? When this is the case our indigenous players will not get the chance to play among the first XI. A few years back in Italy each soccer team in Serie A competition was allowed to field 3 players recruited from outside the borders of Italy which was later on forced by the Italians to stop it and make a law to field only two so that indigenous crop does not suffer. So by allowing such a battalion of outside players we will never develop our own indigenous talent. Hence, we must make our voice audible to every concerned person to change its law to suit their LOCAL needs.
Compared to the last season, the quality of soccer in this year’s edition is vastly enhanced but brutality of foreign Coaches and that of the Coaching Team members is too high reaching the point of saturation, that means what nonsense they commit on the side lines is not tolerated. Who are these nonsense creators? They are all foreign Coaches along with their coaching colleagues, they release their anger of any goof committed by the Match Referee on the field which may not be correct. But referee is the final authority and linesmen cannot be held responsible. The way they argue and abuse the Linesmen it is unbearable. Are they right in doing this type of Tamasha from the Sidelines? No, they have no right to argue with the Linesmen neither they can create scene there by their robust behaviour. It is a pity that such ugly scenes are seen created only in our land where ISL is going on under the Indian administration which the foreign Coaches and their colleagues do not pay that much of respect. These white skinners foreign Coaches if they had to face the same type of situation in the West, would they display the calibre of their marbles by doing what they do here? I noticed there is vast improvement qualitywise but what is worst is that they argue for anything? They will never display their courage to argue from the Sidelines with the Linesmen. The foreign Coaches recognised the wekness of our “Ghanvtti” Referees who firstly lack the proper knowledge of the rules of Soccer and secondly they are suffering from ancestral and tradional inferiority complex and thirdly they are too nervous and frightful to handle stiff situation. These bloody stupid Indian Referees are fit to be the big jokers and not the Referees, they are good to be soldiers only and not the Generals. As a whole as seen the weakness of the Indian Referees and Linesmen is too big, their quality is very low. I cannot understand how they got their Refereeing Cards and FIFA Badges. They don’t even have the necessary personality. In this year’s edition of ISL the Refereeing is of very low standard that was very much responsible to lose the beauty of this edition. Much of the charm and beauty of this ISL tournament matches lost because of the extremely poor Refereeing.
Now referring to the two mighty and gigantic teams namely the Mohun Bagan and East Bengal who till recently the best teams in India and feared by all other teams from India are in ISL and are become pure coackroches where their earlier might is totally disappeared. Earlier they were like one eyed teams among the blinds but since the starting of ISL competition and with the introduction of almost half a dozen of outstation players for each team totally changed the quality and standard of the game in India and with it the level of the players. I cannot understand the once mighty team Mohun Bagan how it has created fear complex into Goans when the darling team of Goa the famed Vasco Sports Club played against Mohun Bagan in the mid sixties at Co-operage Ground which was attended by the capacity spectators where Mohun Bagan defeated Goa’s Vasco by 1-0 to lift the Trophy, the all important winning goal was scored by their forward Khanan who incidentally gained more popularity in Goa than anyone else. Their captain Jeirnal Singh during that time was stationed outside India representing Asia as he was the only Indian player selected to represent in the Asiad. When core committee of Mohun Bagan after studying the plus and minus points of their team, they submitted their report demanding by all means the recalling from Asiad of Jeirnal Singh for this final because they said in the absence of Jernail Singh, Vasco’s brilliant forward who was at his peak would make the defence of Mohun Bagan as a bunch of idiots. In view of this, it is imperative to bring back Jernail Singh and ultimately he was brought back and he played the key role in stopping Vasco’s Andrew who being a puny sized player played an stellar role but unfortunately could not score the much needed victory goal to bring to Goa the much admired and much popular Trophy the Rovers Cup. In fact the battalions of Goans settled in Bombay came to watch not only the game but to see Vasco lifting the Trophy and taking it to Goa where thousands and thousands of Vasco’s supporters were preparing themselves with Bundles and Bundles of Fire Crackers and Musicians with their musical instruments. But alas, so many Goa based Goans who went by cars to see this final returned on the same night with tears in their eyes while in Bombay so many Bombay based Goans not only crying but they were also sobbing and screaming. Butt alas, Goans lost no doubt but have created an unique place into the hearts of each and everyone who attended this grand final, whether he was the supporter of Mohun or not. The actual winner of this final was not the Mohun Bagan of Calcutta and Vasco of Goa not the loser but it was the game of soccer that
came out victorious. It was said that in the history of Bombay Gons only twice Goans became mmore happy that was when Goa won the Opinion Poll and second time when Vasco reached to the final of this tournament.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
they said it is imerative nting Asia