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Below is a write up on football in "Contact Goan Chaplaincy" Sept. 2009 by
Wendy Fernandes for the benefit of Goan readers.
Goan football enthusiasts may be interested to know that oru very own
Salgaoncars from Goa qualified to participate in the Manchester United Premier
Cup (MUPC) football under 15 tournament which tookpalce from 5th to 7th August
at Carrington (private training ground for Manchester United team). I was
inforemed of this by Salgaoncar's coach, Francisco Bruto da Costa.
This tournament was founded in 1993 for under 15 as aprt of their programme to
promote and scout for young talent from the world. This year over 43 countries
parrticipated at Manchester including UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain,
Brazil, Ghana and China. This was an opportunity for teams to play at
international elvel and sahre the experiences of briding language and cultural
barriers through sports.
This was the 4th yar that All India Football Federation in collaboration with
Nike had sent a side from India to praticipate at the MUPC event. To qualify a
local tournament was held with tams such as mahindra United FC, JCT, Pune FC,
Viva Kerala, Salgaoncars, Sporting Club deGoa, Sikkin Football Academy, Mumbai
Sprots School Association, Silchar Football Academy, Pondicherry Coaching
Centre and Uttaranchal participated.
At this finals, our Goan boys placed under the abnner of Salgaonkars and
defeated Raghav FC of Gurgaon (Haryana) to make it for the first time at the
MUPC tournament at Mancheser. The team arrived in Manchester prior to the
tournament and alongwith all international teams were accommodated at
Fallowfield Campus, Manchester University.
The tournamet kicked offf on 4th August, 2009. The guests of honour were
football personalities Sir Alex Ferguson, Man. United manager, Sir Bobby
Charlton and Rio Ferdinand.
The final ws held on 8th August, 2009 at Old Trafford where Sao Paulo from
Brazil defeated Germany's Werder Bremen 3-1 to lift the cup.
Alought Salgaonkar did not do extremelywell, they put their very best despite
the odds of playing against very superior teams. The tournament provided the
boys a platform to measure their skills, passion and determinatin against the
very best of peers. Coach Francisco Bruto da Costa was all praise for the
management of the Salgaoncars which provides facilities to their memebrs for
promotingtalent at the grass root level. The cooperation and support from
parents, schols and officials too has created a congenial atmosphere for
development of football in Goa. The participation of Salgaonkars in this
tournament witnessed yet another example of Goa being represented on the
international map.
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