OUR LOCAL SPORTS ASSOCIATION. III.

 

 

III.

OUR LOCAL  SPORTS ASSOCIATION.

Our Candolim Sports Club came into existence unofficialyy about 100 years back where Foot-ball was the main important item, first time I saw Candolim Football team playing against Portuguese  Military team of Pakle stationed at Aguada about  65 years back, this match was played at Murodd Candolim, near the road going to Nerul, just before the Bridge bridging betwee Candolim and Nerul, on Canolim side where the ground was prepared in the field and as such it was meant to play seasonal soccer from March – April – May, it was here I saw the great Candolim players of that generation who organised themselves into  an official outfit of Candolim representing the Village Team of Candolim, some of them were namely My father, my maternal Uncle Dioginho Vaz of whose caliber Candolim is yet to produce another, Manuel Caetano Cardoso - Eugeno Cardoso’s Father (Saipem), Domingo Conceisaum Cardoso from Orda who later on became a Referee, Manuelin Rodrigues from Pintos(Kavli) who as the best disciplined footballer on the field and for whom once Fr. Mendponca of Arpora School Paid rih tributes for his good discipline, Mighty defender and the tallest player in the team Luciano from Dando, Luis (Papa) Vaddi, Krishna Naik Vaddi and some  others whose track I lost.  That was the first generation of organised Candolim foot-ball team representing Candolim Village officially which was in existence for many years earlier. Those players were physically very strong for this reaon this team was called a “Pelvan Team”.      Before this game the foot-ball team of Candolim was in existence.  Then the next generation came with the players who were more refined and more sophisticated and more skillfull players comprising my elder brother the late Cheddo who was the main backbone of Goa Police just as that of Candolim and the only Goan to play for Goa Police along with all the Pakle and Khapri Portuguese players , after him Goa Police football team has not till now produced another Cheddo in their front line powerful shooter followed by my another other brother the late Jose Marie ex Sesa Goa Captain, he was the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         most talented to score goals thru header from the corner kicks, Andrew Machado (earlier Captain of Sesa Goa) and his brother Babazinho of whose type of dribbler I did not see another not only in Candolim but anywhere in Goa (both from Orda St. Cruz), the late Paklo Jose and his late brother John (both From Orda St. Sebatian), Baba Naik (Escrivao Vaddo), Ladru Simer and his late bother Kabul, Lawrence Nascimento all (Ximer), all the three brothers:- Kamal – Madhu- Shatchut (Vaddi), John Mendkar (Bamon Vaddo), Bhushan (Vaddi) and others then came my generation players. I started first time to play for Candolim “A” team when I was just 14 and that too with those earlier giants of second generation like my both the elder brothers as indicated above, Andrew Machado, Ladru etc.

 

However, the official recognition for Candolim Foot-ball Team was arranged by the late Dr. Gustavo Monteiro who was the great lover of Foot-ball.  He got Candolim Foot-ball team recognised at the Goa Foot-ball Association and by spending his precious time after the Candolim Foot-ball Team even guiding the players how to play by physically ineracting with the foot-ballers. After Candolim Club Dr. Gustavo spent lot of his personal money even though he had one associate with him who was helping Dr. Monteiro, he is Mr. D’Silva from Candolim itself.  In fact I saw him how D’Silva from his mining business he was utilising his Mining Truck to transport Candolim foot-ballers to Panjm and to other far places to play Candolim’s scheduled games.  I saw how the players sitting in the Truck without Seats. Then from the “ Segundo Divisao” Dr. Gustavo Monteiro  managed with distinction to have his Candolim Foot-ball team promoted into the “Primeiro Divisao” where there were top teams like Salgaocar, Vasco, Goa Police, Bemfica from Mapusa, St. Inez, MCC Margao (all these teams were manned by Pakles and Kahpris from Portugal and African Portuguese Colonies and as such they were a force to reckon with), Lube from Siolim, Ferroviarius, Bicholim comprising more Pakle and some more. To fortify further, Dr. Gustavo arraned for Candolim team 4 Portuguese best Pakle players from Aguada Millitary citadel. The contribution of Dr. Gustavo Monteiro and his family in the promotion and development  of Candolim Sports in general and Soccer in particular was second to none, first by Dr. Gustavo Monteiro followed by his priest brother Pe. Chico Monteiro.  The strong foundation laid by Dr. Gustavo Monteiro for the Candolim Foot-ball Club has gained lot of benefits for   the village of Candolim.                                                                                                                                                          

 About my family’s contribution in the development and proromotion of the  Candolim Sports in general and football in particular and physical assistance  in saving the village and villagers from the jaws of our wild  opponents   was extremely high.  We being 4 brothers the last one was too young then but we all three immediately stood high and erect not only to play and win the game with our opponents but also to provide physical assistance not because we were Dadas, no, surely not but we enjoyed good rapport and cooperation with  all our neighbours and opponents since we were having good character and very good discipline on  and off the field.. There was a time the greatness of Candolim football team surrounded on all the  three players of our family – Cheddo – Jose Marie -   Anton and only their play can win the match for Candolim. Such magnificent players all the three brothers never played for Candolim  nor will easily play in the future.

 

Eugeno Cardoso’s family is the greatest family in Candolim in Sports in general having produced one International Athlete, Steffi – Eugeno’s daughter, winning innumerable medals at national and international Meets  whils his son Ricardo an all India soccer custodian playing for India in the Lusofonia tournament when it was held in Goa and Eugen Cardoso himself a gigantic goalkeeper of Goa  representing Dempo Soccer team for almost a decade and winning most of the All India Tournaments. He was declared as the all time best goalkeeper of Dempo during the last 50 years.

 

When Candolim had such a fabulous past, why Candolim cannot produce a soccer team now that can create an impact ?   Who is running the affairs of Candolim Club or soccer team now?  Are they Candoicars or outsiders settled in Candolim and whoever they may be, what was their past  in soccer and what they contributed to promote  Candolim soccer in the past?   Are they really  contributing something or they are Titular heads of the Club?   The ground gifted by Dr. Gustavo Monteiro  for Panchayat is become like a fotress closed on all sides without free access for anyone to come  at any convenient time and play and practice there.  When it was arranged for Candolim boys it was not to make money making venture but now it looks different, the free flow of boys on the ground is restricted and nobody it looks knows who is handling the   affairs of this ground.  Why nobody from the village seems to take interest in this matter?  Where are all  the former stalwarts of  Candolim soccer gone now?  Who is    running the Club and who got them elected and when? Is GFA still recognizes Candolim Club?   Are Panchayat members involved in running the soccer show of Candolim soccer? If yes, on what basis?    Are all those who are running the soccer activities know anything of soccer and secondly are they really  Candoicars? It is my request to all “Nizache” Candoicar to come forward to revive soccer in Candolim and for Candoicars. 

CONCLUDED.

 

A.Veronica Fernnandes..

ILL EFFECTS OF MIGRATION OF GOANS. I I.

 

         When GRD Tata came to Goa for the first time somewhere in 1973/74 to visit his newly constructed Taj Hotel at Sinquerim, I was on the forefront with my Candolim friend Alex Pinto, to challenge TATA by stopping his Car at Sinquerim main Road and informing him of total dissatisfaction over the Sinquerim Taj management that instead of employing the locals, as earlier promised by the Taj, the Taj management  employed non-Goans more and that to on key posts when our locals were available. Then a memorandum was given to Tata detailing all  the grievances of the locals.  Within 24 hours Tata rattled the entire Sinquerim Taj management and demanded that the local folks should be kept happy and as a mark of disgust against his management of Sinquerimg Taj Hotel, he left for Bombay within 24 hours instead of spending more days as scheduled, at Taj Sinquerim.  Goenkaranchem padd ghatlam fokot doudirea Goenkarani ani ze konn apunn vhoddlea kastache/zatinche te ki vhoddle doudire.  Te zaun assat vhoddle Bamonn mhontat poi te ani te tor bore zalolet zalear Goyant 451 vorsam Portuguez raj kednanch choloichenaslet, te tea adinch Goenchi polla-poll kadtolet aslet ani tedna  tem aiz passun toxench faleam, porvam, tervam ani sodankal tea fuddeam passun amchem bhangarachem Goem amchech hatin poddtolem aslem.  Pun Bamnani toxem zaunk dilena, tankam Portuguezam lagchean chiri-miri zai asli ani ti chiri-miri apleak melloupak zai mhonn tanni Portuguezanchea navan bharik lokank piddnuk divpak survat keli, bharik lokancho kont-ixeop naslolea porim kelem ani tosleam doudiream Bamnna modlo ek doudiro tednacho Sinquerimcho Taj Hotelacho General Manager Lenny Menezes mhonnta poi to zaun aslo.  To apli Bamongeri soddpak kobul naslo, aplea "Avochem "Chapeau ani Maezinhachem" Volter gheun boslolo tem soddlench na.  Heach oslea polkea vhoddponnak lagon tachea bapaik mhonnche Prof. Armando Menezesak ek khodok defeat khunchi poddli tedna to eka Parliamenentary electionank to ubo ravlolo tedna.  Team bamtteank bharik lokanchim motam zai pun bharik lokank adhar korpak naka.  Hench oslem doudirpon to Taj hacho Gen. Manager tedna kortalo. 

  

        Then immediately locals were recruited more in the Sinquerim Hotel but in their Register as I was informed by their internal sources, the Taj Management kept written in bold capital letters that NOT only ME i.e. Antonio Veronica Fernandes BUT not even any of my blood  relatives should be employed at Taj. Then after making thorough enquiry of my temparement, Taj management thought that I will always be a source of headache for them, so best thing they decided is to get rid of me from Candolim and Goa without opening their real, intention with the excuse of sending me to UK for further studies  in Hotel Management however the same offer I declined politely. Then  in my locality within  I hour after JRD Tata was stopped, I became a hero, so much so, the top politicians started approaching me even MGP Gen. Secretary Pankar from Mapusa but I maintained my distance from them knowing their selfish culture and also knowing majority of them they are such rascals.  That they are so third class you come to know the  way they are  defecting from one party to the other. And how worst are those who like Pimps initiate the process of defection as if they are doing a Holy job?  They don’t even have shame to arrange these defections games. I see their end is nearing because they are hurting innocent Goans too much.  From my past  experience I have noticed that those defectors and also the originators and initiators of such defections are facing worst punishment from God such as they get deadly deseases and sicknesses, their wives leave them, their children desert them and they become the subjects of Satan because “Ghaddis” they keep by paying them enormous amount of money by hiring them from North India  become masters of them and they in turn become slaves of Ghaddis and their end is decided by the Ghaddis only. During the last e;;lection for the Goa Legislattive Assembly, our Hero brought one Ghaddi to our area where Ghantees are plenty.  This man is having no shame and that he was instrumental in piloting the Defection of the entire Team of bastardised Con. Legislators to the rascalised ruling party is the talk of the town.  On top of it this same man roaming with his Collar up, not even ashamed  to confess with pleasure that he was the architecht of the biggest ever defection.  He thinks he did some extra ordinary job.  Hello my friend I pity you, you have not seen the world properly yet. You are still a "bach'ya, dont think money and illicit money you made you will survive to enjoy it, it is first of all not yours and for that matter nothing in this world is yours.  Dayananda Bandodcar was telling that "there is nobody greater above his head in Goa and nobody is capable to shake him an inch out from his CM'ship, Hardly a few hours finished after he spoke those prideful words, while playing the game of TING TONG no sorry it  was the game of Ping Pong at Campal, he collapsed and never recovered. Your era is coming to an end.  Punishment of God is coming  Lamefooted but surely it is coming. Coming back to Taj, among those who were later on recruited thanked me for creating opportunities for their employment in the TAJ at Sinquerim.   It was given to undertand later on that this was the first protest by the locals against the Multinationals in Goa.       

 

Gradually in many places in Goa people who are not fit to be decent and upright  human beings started to occupy the responsible positions meant for responsible people.  But unfortunately there were no upright people left in Goa  as we had earlier.  These new figures were totally corrupt, totally Indianised and not Goanised, they learnt in their schools   and with their Indian colleagues in Schools and Colleges all the dirty tricks and habbits,  what habbits?  How to rob, how to create disorder and confusion, how to disrespect the elders, how to amass wealth from others and in one word how to become selfish. These people with their worst habit of selfishness started getting opportunities to rule in our local Organisations namely Panchayats, Sports Clubs local, our Purvonzache Mandd, our Church related committees and many such other organisations.  These people went on organizing themselves into new groups to wield physical power in their hands acting like Goondas spreading threats in their localities. In my village itself power physical and political went into the hands of some of such people and the first thing they started doing was to build their financial empire built on money illicitly collected thru illicit means.  In every village almost these bloody  rascals young boys and young men started dominating our Panchayats occupying the positions of Sarpanches and without having any shame started extorting money from the locals as bribe money for the work done in the Panchayats, the work such as getting Licences to construct new Houses, to repair old houses and many such works.  The major share was going to the biggest “Ghauncho Chor” the Sarpanch and the rest of the Panchas includimng the Peon also started getting some percentage of bribe money. 

 

 

Furthermore, in their localities they started  acting like  Lords  roaming in big Limousines or top luxurious cars – to buy money from where? Surely from the bribe in lakhs of rupees or gifted from the top business maganets.  It said in my locality that one of such semi lords got a luxury car as a gift from one of the top Inddian business tycoons when that semi lord issued in his capacity as local leader the licence for  the luxurious construction of  that Indian businessman.  These rascals after dominating the Panchayats and having acquired their goals of building their financial empires, they then go in search of still more greener pastures to the Legislative Assembly, to do what? Nothing good but only to rob more and more and to accumulate more and more illicit wealth for which they have all the know how.  I have seen in my locality how some of this type of crooks are acting and the worst part of all this “Tamasha” was this that their wives are not even telling their crook and corrupt husbands not to commit such Sins. Some of these people are become Dadas in some of our local associations which the current heads and presidents are acting as if these village based associations are their own properties to manage the way they want and sad thing is this   that nobody in the localities and villages are questioning them.  Even our Purvonzache Mandd are taken over by such third rated stupid new  crop of Goan leaders whose only job is to pounce on the money accumulated thru the hard work by all the earlier “Kaxttikar” members.    

To be concluded.      

A.Veronica Fernanbdes.       

                                                     

 

 

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ILL EFFECTS OF MIGRATION OF GOANS.

 

THE  ILL EFFECTS OF MIGRATION OF GOANS TO OUTSIDE GOA/INDIA.i.

The migration of Goans to outside India was started about over 200 years ago first migrating to  India namely Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, Dakka, Rangoon, Colombo, Karachi and to some other places and later on in the Middle East and  Africa. Then after the last Arab - Israeli War in the Middle East where Arabs suffered just like in all the previous wars, a most humiliating defeat from the tiny nation Israel which came into being on 14^th May in 1948  while the entire Arab World comprising innumerable independent States came into existence hundreds of years back.  In that last War fought between the Arabs and Israel in 1972 /73, Israel with the strong support of USA in men-materials and Logistics, totally annihilated the Arabs.  Feeling their ego was hurt, the Arabs decided to increase the Oil Prices tremendously to teach a very good  lesson to USA and other Western countries that were part of the Axis with USA against Arabs.  When the Oil prices were increased, the money power of Arab Countries especially the Oil Rich reached to the sky and in order to utilize this excess of money  power into the hands of Arabs, they went for further industrialization of their countries for which what the manpower they needed, the Arabs started hiring in greater number from   India, of course in addition from other Asian countries too.

 

Taking advantage of this situation many of the young men from Goa some of them doing lucrative jobs and getting good salaries as per the Goan standard, they were lured for the new jobs in the Gulf Countries for very good salaries.  Gradually within the mid/end of seventies and in the early eighties our Goan young men who  in their localities  were doing very good activities  for the protection of Goan culture, tradition, language, system, Goan discipline, Goan Folksongs, Folk Tales, Goan Food and many other attributes of their localities, Goa and Goans were not only  totally uprooted from their villages and Vaddos but also from Goa as a whole and they went abroad for greener pastures.  When these Goans left from Goa there appeared a vacuum created by their going abroad, in their localities, Vilages, Vaddos and in Goa as a whole  having no link whatsoever between those who already left from their localities, Villages, Vaddos and Goa and those who filled the vacuum created by those who already migrated to the Gulf and elsewhere without creating the legacy between the old and the new stalwarts most of them lacked most of the Goan attributes, they were more or less like non-Goans lacking in genuine Goanness.  The continuity between the new and the old was lost.  For example in my village before going to Kuwait I was playing a leading role in everyfield in the village, dominating almost every segment fighting against the arrogant, chors, bamtte and Rostad and in the bargain I gained lot of respect and allegiance of course with some enemies too who were like toys for me.  So too my other brothers and in fact one of them Jose MARIE was the most dynamic in our locality.  It is on record in one election (only one (PANCHAYAT)election he contested which was forcibly imposed on him by the voters) he got elected  without even he doing any campaigning personally nor door to door canvassing.  Voters elected him on their own freewill).  Such  VAST pull he had over the village and villagers. We were simple and ordinary people but had very good respect in the locality because of our character, good deeds, good discipline and topmost Sports calibre in general and football in particular brought us into strong limelight and directly into the hearts of the people and we made good use of this limelight and goodwill for the cause of society.