www.goa-world. com GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994) >>http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans/ www.colaco.net >>http://www.live365.com/index.live >>Tumcam Maie-mogacho ieukar. Stay tuned to Gulf Goans e-Newsletter - everyday >>someone, somewhere learns a >>little.....________________________________________________________________________________FAREWELL >> FELICITATION FOR MR. A. VERONICA FERNANDES IN KUWAIT >Below is the text of speech by KIFF PRESIDENT Mr. Fidelis Fernandes at the >felicitation ceremony conducted by Kuwait Indian Football Federation on >13/12/2013 at the MOH Ground for Mr. Anthony Veronica Fernandes who will be >leaving Kuwait for good, shortly. > > > > >GENTLEMEN. > > >WE STAND HERE TO BID FAREWELL TO OUR DEAR FRIEND AND LONG TIME COLLEAGUE MR. >VERONICA FERNANDES, SINCE HE IS LEAVING KUWAIT FOR GOOD AFTER 38 YEARS. > > >MR. VERONICA FERNANDES, A FOOTBALLER, A JOURNALIST, OUR LONG TIME ASSOCIATE >HELPING FOOTBALL FEDERATION ETC AND LIST GOES ON. > > > > > > > > > > > >FIRST WE SHALL TOUCH HIS FOOTBALL ACTIVITIES WHERE HE WAS A PLAYER, IN GOA HE >CAPTAINED THE CANDOLIM FOOTBALL TEAM, PLAYED FOR ARPORA SCHOOL, ST. XAVIER >COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM, CHWGULE CFOOTBALL TEAM, HE ALSO PLAYED FOR THE THEN >MIGHTY CHAMPION OF GOA “ SESA GOA FOOTBALL TEAM” IN MANY PARTS OF INDIA >INCLUDING ROVERS CUB IN BOMBAY. HE CAME TO KUWAIT IN 1975 AND HE PLAYED AS >CAPTAIN FOR SALMIYA YOUTH CLUB IN THE INAUGURAL TOURNAMENT IN 1979 AT SOUR >GROUND. HE WAS THE CO FOUNDER OF GOA MAROONS AND PLAYED FOR THEM. HE WAS THE >BEST DEFENDER AMONG INDIANS DURING HIS HEY DAYS. > > >MR. VERONICA WAS ONE OF THE PROMOTERS OF KUWAIT INDIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION, HE >WAS AN AD HOC COMMITTEE MEMBER OF KIFF AND LATER A TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBER. > > >HE WAS WRITING ABOUT THE FOOTBALL ACTIVITIES ON THE SOUR GROUNDS AT THE TIME >WHEN THERE WAS NO INTERNET AND THE PRINT MEDIA WAS THE ONLY SOURCE AVAILABLE >FOR THE FOOTBALL LOVERS IN KUWAIT. >IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE A CRITIC IN ANY TYPE OF SPORTS WHICH HELPS THE >COTROLLING BODY TO CORRECT ITSELF. HIS REPORTINGS WERE VERY HELPFUL AND >INFORMATIVE. > > > > > > >HIS JOURNALIST STATURE WAS ALSO VERY IMPRESSIVE WHERE HE WROTE A LOT ABOUT THE >BRUTAL INVASION OF KUWAIT AND ORGANIZED THE SUPPORT FOR THE KUWAITIS IN GOA >DURING THE INVASION. > > >HE ALSO TOOK UP THE KONKANI LANGUAGE ISSUE AND ORGANIZED VARIOUS FORUMS IN >SUPPORT OF IT, DEDICATING HIS TIME AND EFFORT FOR THE CAUSE, WHICH WAS EQUALLY >APPRECIATED BY ALL CONCERNED. >MR. VERONICA YOUR POPULARITY CAN BE GAUGED BY THE PRESENCE OF ALL THE CLUB >PRESIDENTS, REPRESENTATIVES,MY MANAGING COMMITTEE AND FOOTBALL LOVERS BID YOU >FAREWELL.. >ON BEHALF OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE AND ALL THE ASSOCIATED CLUBS, I STAND HERE >TO THANK YOU FOR ALL WHAT HE HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE COMMUNITY IN GENERAL AND >TO THE FOOTBALL ACTIVITY IN PARTICULAR. > >WE ALL WISH YOU A VERY GOOD HEALTH, GOOD LIFE AND GOD BLESS YOU. > > >FIDELIS FERNANDES >PRESIDENT >KUWAIT INDIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION > > >Pics: Julio Cardoso / Revon Gomes >Posted by Kuwait Indian Football Federation at 12:34 AM >Email ThisBlogThis!Share to Twitter >Share to Facebook THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Every individual has a place to fill in >the world, and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or >not.
