Dear Colleagues, Please find below a match preview of the Champions Trophy Charity Match between Salgaocar Football Club vs FC Bardez . Please print this match report in your respective newspapers.
*Salgaocar Football Club face FC Bardez Goa in the season opener of the Champions Trophy Charity Match .* The Goa Professional League winners Salgaocar Football Club will clash with Winners of the Goa Police Cup (knock out tournament) FC Bardez Goa in the Champions Trophy Charity Match on August 27, at Duler Stadium, Mapusa at 4 p.m. The Tickets for the Charity match will be priced at Rs 50 for all the stands while the tickets for VIP stand will be priced at Rs 200. Both the teams met in last years Goa Pro League with Salgaocar FC having won both the home and away games against FC Bardez Goa. Salgaocar FC having a strong squad will come out full guns blazing against the Pink Brigade and will try to get the win. FC Bardez Goa is coached by Armando Colaco and Managed by Andrew Gomes. FC Bardez Goa has made a drastic change to their squad by only retaining five players from 2016-17 squad. Jessel Carneiro. Lenstan Afonso , Shubham Rao Dessai and Kritikesh Gadekar and Jesmon Soares have been retained. FC Bardez Goa has a bad record with Salgaocar having lost both the ties. FC Bardez will be in good hopes to win the match and get their first victory of the season head of the AWES tournament which is stating on September 1. FC Bardez Goa possible starting XI Vivek Gopal (GK), Lenstan Aflonso, Jessel Carneiro , Stanley D'silva, Krishanath Shirodkar, Kritikesh Gadekar, Jesman Soares, Floyed Fernandes, Climax Lawrence, Viraj Naik and Shubham Rao Dessai. Lenstan Afonso " The squad has changed but we will give out all. We have lost to them in the previous meetings but we wont let it happen again," Media Manager – FC Bardez Mobile - +918805436221