---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: zena costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 14, 2008 3:13 PM Subject: JOSHUA,CHARton To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Francis Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Joshua, Charlton, Aiken Return -zena costa EIVKAAR !! Where shall we go this summer? Queries novelist Anita Dessai in her best seller entitled the same. Try inquiring this of year old Joshua Vaz (17) and15 year olds Charlton Vaz and Aiken Dias the counter is similar to millions.-Goa for the summer. But the boys are not vacationers. After a year of football training in Portugal these teens come back to that place where the heart lies-Goa. HOME! It maybe recalled that there three footballers Goan were sent to Portugal last year following a GFA m.o.u with Porto FC and Vitoria Guimaraes. Having completed their intensive training at Guimaraes in a major football nation like Portugal and successfully so. And what's the feeing at home? Speaking to Herald spoke the families of these budding footballers just prior to their arrival in Dabolim. Aiken Dias' father Felipe a former footballer says "I cant wait to see Aiken. My wife Flory is in Jerusalem and will miss Aiken's home coming". When queried how Aiken had coped without family Filipe replies" We would always be admonishing him for his fathomless watching of every football match he could both live and on Television. In his absence each time the word football was mentioned or the TV switched on we would miss him .As for my boy, he was totally engrossed in what was being done there and wasn't homesick at all.Infact he was very jovial and would cheer us up I haven't seen my son for a year and have missed him.I m off to the airport. ---------------------------------------Place Inbox-------------------------------------- Vitória Sport Clube is a Portuguese football club based in the city of Guimarães, located 40 km north of Oporto. It is reported to be established in 1922. Although Vitória de Guimarães (the club abbreviation used in Portugal) never managed to win the championship or even the Portuguese cup, it is one of the most respected clubs in Portugal, playing in the last decades always at the top division, most of the times seeking for the places that grant access to the UEFA competitions. Clubs such as Parma AC, Atletico Madrid and Sparta Prague were eliminated from european competitions in ties with Guimarães. Joshuah Vaz who had earlier undergone a 5 month stint at Porto trained and did play matches for the club.Aiken and cherton were in the trainee category receiving intensive training a la Portugal. ---------------------------------------------------------- report continues…. In the fatorda home of Joshuah and Charlton Vaz, a very close-knit family for whom football is a way of life eagerly awaits the boys' return. Their father coach Soccorro Vaz a reputed footballer in his day, and a respected coach and PE teacher at the manovikas trust say told Herald "Other than the time Josh and Charlton represented Goa ,they have spent every night of their young lives at home. We did miss them a lot since both my sons were not home. Their mother missed then terribly as any mum would. We would be in touch online regularly it's not the same as being with them. But, as much as we missed their presence Coach Socorro stressed " my sons want to excel. And as parents however much we night miss them it's a sacrifice we have to make. Parental backing and support is vital. When queried how te boys had fared he said" there is a new maturity about them. They come out to be more mature ,more grown up,independent.Infact Joshua t was able to pass on to me some stuff they learnt and I was able to implement it here 'says Coach Soccaro. All three boys who step out of the airport with long locks "haircuts are expensive in Portugal" quipped Aiken to be enveloped in hugs mingled with tears of joy and re-union. We have one demand they say- "xitt-kodi-fish please! We are s tarving! While Ailken's fish-curry- rice awaits him in Mapusa. The vaz boys will home to the aroma of fish curry rice, chicken Goesa, bebinca, Doce de grao and home made chocolate cake cooked with love by their mother Debbie. Well, as the axiom goes you can take a true Goenkar out of Goa but not the Goenkar out of the Goan. So xitt-Kodi it is. What does one say but,Eivkar! Welcome home and Bon Appetite!
