· 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. 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
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