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Stage Play: ON THE HOLY TRAIL
Staged By: The Mustard Seed Art Company
Where: Kala Academy - Mini Open-air Auditorium
When: Dec 20 & 21, 2007 @ 7pm
Read a Review at:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2007-December/066558.html
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50th BIRTHDAY GREETINGS
to our beloved friend
Caetano Godinho (Caji)
(Pacheco Vaddo-Majorda, Salcette Goa)
Old is gold, so is a 50th Birthday!
Thats half a century!
Your passion for life, football, poetry
May it continue for another 50.
Best wishes & God bless you always.
Savio Gomes & fly (Varca/Kuwait)
Lino G.Fernandes & fly (Nuvem/Kuwait)
22nd Dec. 2007
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A BRIEF ON CAJETAN GODINHO (CAJI)
Caji - the Silver Star of Soor Grounds soccer
- By Sunny Nazareth/ArabTimes
Meet and greet the peerless Cajetan Godinho, popularly known as 'Caji' to his
friends and admirers. The only child in the family, Caji belongs to the stuff
"that dreams are made of" because, at the scholastic age, he captained the
famous A.A. de Majorda Football Club.
After his academic career, Caji joined the Marmagoa Port Trust (MPT) in 1979,
as a football player and, was about to make a debit for MPT in Western India
Football Federation's (WIFE) most prestigious Rovers Cup Tournament when fate
winged him to Kuwait.
Thereafter, there was no turning back. Caji joined the then celebrated Goan
Sport in 1979, when the expatriate soccer was in its nascent stages on the Soor
Grounds. Caji continued with the Goan Sporting until it was disbanded in 1995.
With Caji's dazzling midfield display, Goan Sporting had the unique honour of
being the first club, to win the very first coveted
UG Shield in the inaugural United Goans Tournament in Kuwait. Goan Sporting
also basked in the glory of being the first, to win the late Ida Memorial
Football Trophy after the liberation of Kuwait.
Caji strides the Soor Grounds like a colossus. A midfield maestro with
mercurial thrusts, Caji displays superb ball control, dexterous ball
deflections and his exactitude in powerful long range shots make him the
'karma' (nemesis) of goal keepers. A free kick specialitst with lethal
potential, Caji is also gifted with a rare and incomparable ability to hit the
bull's
eye with amazing 'spiral shots' taken straight from the flag kicks. Tactically
astute, when Caji is in possession of the ball, his opponents rarely get a
chance to shift from the first gear, paving way for him to unleash unexpected
sizzlers with devastating effect.
A former coach of the Kuwait National Soccer Team, the great Brazilian Carlos
Alberto presiding as chief guest in 1984, praised Caji as a 'wonderful player'
and presented him the "The Best Player Award" in the finals of the late Ida
Memorial Football Tournament on
the Soor Grounds.
Caji is endowed with a flint personality, patience and perseverance and
captained the first ever Goa XI verses Kerala XI at the Fahaheel Stadium in
1990. He was also honoured with a "Fair Play Award" in 1995, at a friendly
match between Kuwait Indian Football Federation (KIFF) selection and the famous
Al-Arabi Sports Club of Kuwait. As late as in 2001, Caji was decorated with the
title of "Athlete of the Year" by the CRC Chinchinim in Kuwait. Caji's sports
resume flaunts with lots of accolades and awards. When asked the secret of his
success, Caji humbly replied, "love, dedication, discipline" and it is
precisely these
traits that make him the super nova to cross the Silver Jubilee portals of his
outstanding and
unblemished football career on the nostalgic Soor Grounds.
( courtesy: Arab Times www.arabtimesonline.com )
- From the archives of Gulf-Goans e-Newsletter
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Goa-World.Com adds:
Caji - the never aging most respected man on Soor Ground continues his love
for 'football' and is a shining example and inspiration to the young and the
old among the Indian football players and officials.
Caji deserves special accolades and honour considering his unique record in
Kuwait's expatriate football history - never receiving any warning card or
disciplinary action from the 'men in black' for the last 28 years!
Cheers to that, we are proud to have 'the pearl' amongst our midst!
A staunch Konkani lover, his poems has been published on the Internet and
print media (Gulf-Goans e-Newsletter, Goanet, Daaiz.com, www.goa-world.com, The
Goan Review, etc.)
Gaspar Almeida
ex-Vice President, KIFF
Associate, www.goa-world.com
Links:
www.goa-world.com/sports/
www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans/
Also read Arab Times of 18-April 2007 Page 45.
Welcome to the First and Only Konkani Music Station
On The Internet
http://www.live365.com/stations/61664
www.goa-world.com/goa/music/
Cajetan's Godinho's Collection of Konkani Poems
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulf-goans/message/13334
Upkarachem Ojjem
Abrilache 1ler Eka Vorsa
Tujea Putachea Nanvan
Tum Soggleamchi Girestkai
Kuxealkaechi Zor
World Tour (Sounsarik Boundi)
Dusro Soeag (Second Chance)
Dhadosponn.
Ghineannamcho Divo
Tuzo Ugddas
Archived at http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans/
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