GOAN MINI WORLD CUP SOCCER 2003-DUBAI
This is with reference to my email of 24 July
concerning the Mini Goan World
Cup to be held in Dubai in 2003.
We have not as yet received many replies hence I am
sending this email once again.
It has been suggested that we have the tournament
for two days that is Thursday
and Friday and the format should be a Seven a Side
Tournament. Games will be
played for the whole day with the final scheduled
for Friday night. Teams may
however stay for a few extra
days.
I should be grateful for an early feedback from
teams / managers as we would
like to organize the event and make it a success.
The first event was good lets
make this one a better one.
Our company Gulf International
Promotions (for Sports and Entertainment) is based in Dubai. We specialize
organizing various sports and entertainment events. Our major projects are
held during the Dubai Shopping Festival where thousands of sportsmen and
sportswomen take part in various sports activities. We also organize
international events and have the honour of being the first organizers to bring a Goan
football team to Dubai to play in a tournament that consisted of Al-Wasl Club
of Dubai, Kerala Police of Kerala, Old Bens Club of Sri Lanka and Churchill
Brothers of Goa. The tournament was a large success with Al-Wasl defeating
Churchill Brothers in the final.
In the year 2000 we sponsored the
U.A.E Goan team that participated in the Mini Goan World Cup held in Margao
and Duler in Goa, India. We were unlucky to loose in the final to the Host
Goa on penalty kicks. The
tournament was organized by a body called Goans International and was
scheduled to be held every two years. We have not as yet heard of the
tournament to be held and have been given to understand that the organizing
body does not exist as a body any more. This is unfortunate but things such as
these do happen.
We at Gulf International Promotions
would like to revive the tournament and are planning to organize it here in
Dubai in March 2003. This will however depend on the response we get from
teams. We on our part will arrange for VISAS to Dubai for players and families
at cost price, we will make special arrangements for subsidized HOTEL stay
with meals, transport from airport to hotel and ground and will negotiate with
the AIRLINES for special deals on airfares.
We should be grateful to receive your
feedback and to know whether teams would be interested in taking part. It
would be useful to have a coordinator from each country to liaise for the
teams that wish to participate. We would like teams from all over the world to
participate. Dubai is a beautiful place to visit and the weather is great in
march. Moreover it will be a good opportunity for Goans from all over the
world to meet and exchange views. Who knows maybe a Goan convention can be
held in this beautiful Oasis.
You may log on to www.justclickdubai.com to get further
information on Dubai.
We should be grateful if teams would
kindly send us tentative replies as soon as possible to enable us to decide
whether the tournament is feasible or not. If it is, we will have to get the ball
rolling immediately as we will need all the time we can get to have a great
tournament.
We look forward to your replies and
any suggestion, ideas, will be more than welcome.
We
sincerely hope teams will be able to participate and help to keep up the great Goan (sporting)name.
Yours Sincerely
Raul Fernandes
Managing Director
Gulf International Promotions
P.O. Box 7925 Dubai, UAE
Tel: 0097143355330
Fax:
0097143377899
