*King’s School wins Goa CBSE Football tournament* *SAO JOSE DE AREAL: *The King’s School Margao beat Fr Agnel Central School 2-0 in the Finals of the 1st CBSE Goa Sahodaya Schools, Under-13 Boys Football Tournament.
The seven schools tournament that had a two pool league system followed by semifinals and a finals, is the first tournament of its kind wherein all seven private Central board Schools in Goa have decided to come together to excel in sports and education. The football tournament had a total of seven schools which include Mount Litera Zee School, Green Meadows School, Sunshine Worldwide Academy, Vidya Vikas Academy, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans, Fr Agnel Central School and The King’s School as the host venue school. The seven team tournament had a total of 12 matches, with Fr Agnel Central School dominating the league stage being unbeaten until the finals and were the favorites to win the tournament with a clean sheet Fr Agnel Central School and The King’s School topped the league stage from Poll A to proceed to the semifinals and were pitted against Green Meadows School and Mount Litera Zee School who topped the Pool B in the league stage. In the semis The King’s School U-13 team beat Mount Litera Zee and won 4-1 with the goal scorers being while Fr Agnel Central Central School won the semis beating Green Meadows School 4-0. The finals was keenly contested and played under floodlights after both the teams fought it through the day. Sanath Borkar and Shabaz Khan starred for The King’s Schools scoring two brilliant goals from outside the b ox and finally netting goals against Fr Agnel Central School Melric Perreira from Fr Agnel Central School scored 6 goals in the tournament and was the highest goal scorer of the tournament while The King’s School Adon Cardozo bagged best Best Goalkeeper of the tournament, Best Defender award was bagged by Aditya Prabhudessai. Scorer in the finalist, The King’s School Shabaz Khan went on to win the player of the tournament trophy. The King’s school coaches Santan Furtado and Riddesh Madgavkar expressed great satisfaction on winning the tournament and commended the efforts of the GFA referees in organizing a fair tournament. Former Director of the Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs, Dr Suzana D’Souza was the Chief Guest of the tournament and gave away the medals and the trophies.
