Nice one Pandu, there was boxing too. Oscar Furtado was one of the greatest
boxers of the 70 era. In basketball there was the tall Clovis Lopes. In Chess
there was Hafiz Karmali and Francis Rodrigues.
And in goondagiri there were the khojas:)))))))))))))))))))
BC
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Say, all the nostalgia on the table tennis battles and the circus that
went along made me think of sports in the old days....in particular
the 70s.That was the Golden age of Goan sports....football,volleyball,
badminton and table tennis. We had stars those years, be it Vero,
Deepa Mambre and Subash in table tennis, Bernard (Vasco), Catao
(Salgoncar), Bramanand (Panvel), Crown Club-Santa Cruz in volleyball,
Madgaonkar family in badminton.........field hockey had the Girim gang
and the the battling goalkeepers from Vasco....Peter and Praveen
Bodade. It was all the entertainment one would wish for.
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