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Domnic Fernandes continues (Part II) his reminiscence of
Mapusa of the 1950s
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Hahahaha BC ! The guy's real name was Redento, a real genius & taskmaster.
('Was'? I heard tell vaguely he's passed on ?). As you said, twas mainly the
Africanders & 6-a-side. I wasn't long in Goa, but played forward in some fun
teams in the exciting Elitel tourneys mentioned above. Some great talent
alongside, crazies like foot-smasher back Elias (Xavier's), weird hippy Loji
D'Silva (Vasco), awesome wing Frisco (now in TO Canada), and the huge
bumptious goalie Peter 'Fozno' Araujo (Vasco)! No dearth of Africander
talent in both N & S Goa, sadly mostly dispersed in the diaspora now. Guess
all became Red Ants (umle) ! haha. Just kidding.
On a more serious note, politics destroyed it all, Redento taking the brunt.
Can't anybody do something ? Anything ?? I once played alongside a really
talented, ebullient centre-forward called Jose 'Joey' Rodrigues (another
Africander like us all). Today he's a prominent S. Goa lawyer and husband of
the influential Nelly Rodrigues, of Zilla Parishad fame. Surely they can
take on the current deadwood - C'mon guys ? We're thousands of km away now,
but any help you need for Goan hockey, the ol' Africanders are there for
you, you name it, you got it. It's not just the likes of Viren and Mervyn
now, even from the old St. Stanislaus crowd etc., there have been quite a
few Goan Olympians from E. Africa - maybe Gabriel can even tell us what
happened to the fab Kenyan Olympiad duo of Edgar and Egbert Fernandes, who
eventually migrated to Australia ? Ah well, 'those were the days my
friend......', ole xac !
Francis.
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Goa never had a real hockey scene. It was the Africanders who made efforts
to get the game going with six a side tourneios. On and off there was some
league games. There were also summer camps conducted by a NIS coach called
Red Ant from Guirim. The best performance by a Goan junior team was
probably in 78.
BC
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