VARCA DEFEAT LOUTOLIM IN EXPAT LEAGUE SIOLIM UNITED BACK ON TOP
Varca Football Club defeated a strong Phoenix Loutolim by two goals to nil in the first UAE Indian Expat Football League played at the Dubai Club for Special Sports. The League is organized by Gulf International Promotions and sponsored by Gulf Eternit Industries, Future Pipe Industries, Pehla, Firstnet, Al Awael, Lipton, Nike, Sub & Sand, Al Rawabi, Masafi and Tiffanys. Captain Franky Baretto and Striker Steven Gurung were on target for Varca in a fast paced game. Lawrie Gonsalves, Mejo Jose and Simon Fernandes gave a good account for Loutolim. Siolim United climbed back to the top of the sixteen- team league with a resounding five nil victory over a helpless Dragon All Starz. Shriram Vernekar the leagues top scorer scored three goals with Jovito D'Souza and Peter Fernandes were the other scorers. SFX Old Goa pulled off the surprise of the night when they held favourites Vaxim Divar to a one all draw. Creighton Travasso opened the scoring for Divar only to see Inas Rodrigues equalize on the stroke of half time. Russel Rodrigues and Randell Pereira played well for Divar while Peter Fernandes and Neelesh Dincar were outstanding for Old Goa. Divar are in eighth position while Old Goa are in fifteenth place. Twelfth placed St Anthony put up a spirited display to hold fifth placed Dubai Republicans to a one all draw. Deril Carvalho scored for St Anthony while Sunny Gabriel leveled the scores for Republicans. Zuari FC pulled off a smart two nil victory over Dragon All Starz missing their Captain Chandy. Lynton D'Souza who was in top form scored a solo goal while Julius Noronha rounded off the game for Zuari. Sunil and Arif Azeez played their hearts out but could not avoid defeat. Varca playing their second game of the night tried their best but could not get past a stubborn Emirates Flight Catering led by Myron Miranda. Both teams tried hard but failed to find the nets. In an exciting encounter Almoe lying third in the table, played fast attacking soccer and got the better of youthful St Marys Boys by one goal to nil courtesy Gilbert Buthelo who scored a gem of a goal. With the defeat St Marys slipped to seventh place. Zyco Dubai led by Abubaker were the other high scorers of the night defeating Desert Cubs by five goals to nil. Manoj Athanikal opened the floodgates followed by Riyas scoring two goals in quick succession an Abdul Aziz his to the tally before Riyas completed the rout. Zyco climbed five places to secure second spot ion the standings. Desert Cubs occupy fourteenth position. Justin Matthews and Neville Thomas put up a spirited display for Desert Cubs. In another exciting game Copy Corner just managed to get the better of Almoe by two goals to one. Almoe, who played their hearts out. took the lead in the first five minutes through Rejo Abraham. Copy Corner came out all guns blazing in the second half to score twice through Basheer K who had a good game upfront. Zuari led by Savio Cardozo playing their second game of the night took all three points from a battling St Anthony thanks to an opportunist goal by Lynton D'souza. Sandy Fernandes, Deril Carvalho and Jude D'Souza gave a good account of themselves but could not convert when it mattered most. Zuari are in eleventh position while St Anthony are in Twelfth place. In the last game of the night Copy Corner climbed into fourth place defeating a determined Emirates Flight Catering by one goal to nil. Basheer K finished off a perfect pass from Rasheed K to seal all three points. Manuel Fernandes and Sebyton Colaco were in good form for the Catering team. The league has reached an interesting stage with three games left in the league phase. The top eight teams qualify for the quarterfinals of the main event while the bottom placed eight teams will fight it out in the plate quarterfinals. The games have been very close and places are still up for grabs. The next round of games will be played on Thursday at the Dubai Club for Special Sports with the following games scheduled: DESERT CUBS vs PHOENIX LOUTOLIM SFX OLD GOA vs VARCA FC SIOLIM UNITED vs VAXIM DIVAR DRAGON ALL STARZ vs ST ANTHONY DUBAI REPUBLICANS vs ALMOE CANSAULIM vs VAXIM DIVAR CANSAULIM vs ZYCO DUBAI COPY CORNER SPORTING vs ZUARI FC EMIRATES FLIGHT CATERING vs ST MARYS BOYS COPY CORNER SPORTING vs PHOENIX LOUTOLIM ST MARYS BOYS vs ZUARI FC DESERT CUBS vs VARCA FC _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected])
