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We had earlier mentioned that quality attracts eye balls too. Some imports from English game means, I-league is being covered by different media outlets from Britain now. Earlier we saw Ashley Westwood being featured in skysports.com.
Now we have Darryl Duffy of Salgaocar FC being featured in BBC.
Read the interview with the Scotsman on BBC here.
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Reports from Goa suggest that Arthur Papas will fly to Australia to renew his visa. Mauricio Afonso will step in during Papas’ absence.
Papas will miss Dempo’s match against Rangdajied United in Shillong and most probably the Goan derby with Salgaocar Football Club.
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Anthony Pereira who acrimoniously parted ways with Mohun Bagan has joined Churchill Brothers if reports from Goa are anything to go by.
“He trained with us today and should be available for the next match (against Mumbai FC) on Saturday. He is a good addition to the team and will give us options in midfield,” said team boss Churchill Alemao to TOI.
It is understood that it will be a loan move.
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Reports suggest that the auctions for the IMG – Reliance IPL style league would be held by October end. The tournament modeled on Indian Premier League, will have eight franchises across the country.
Two auctions, one for the franchisees and the other for players will be held at the end of October. The tournament will be held between January 18 and March 30 of the next year. Supposedly 20 corporates have expressed their interest in franchises.
Every franchise will have 10 foreign players including a marquee player, 7 Indians and 4 U-21 players in their roster. IMG – Reliance have shortlisted nine cities across India – Guwahati, Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Goa, Bangalore, Chennai and Kochi, out of which one will be dropped later.
Reports also suggest that after numerous rounds of discussion with the I-league clubs, both parties have agreed upon a middle ground.
Read more : Indian football auctions to be held soon
The official I-league twitter account has confirmed that the following two matches will be telecast on Ten Action + on the opening weekend.
| 21-Sep | 4.00 pm | Churchill Brothers | vs | Salgaocar FC | Ten Action+ |
| 22-Sep | 4.00 pm | Bengaluru FC | vs | Mohun Bagan | Ten Action+ |
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Sesa Football Academy’s Sahil Tavora will move to Dempo SC after the youngster impressed Dempo SC coach Arthur Papas.
“I am really impressed with Sahil. Good and young players are hard to find these days,” said Papas.
The 18 year old midfielder will be vying for a place in in Dempo’s I-league squad. He is ineligible to represent Dempo in the ongoing Goa Pro-League
The above quote is sourced from the following article – Sesa’s Sahil to move over to Dempo Sports Club
Goa announced the team for 49th Junior National Football Championship, for BC Roy Trophy.
Schubert D’Costa is the captain of the 20 member team. The other members of the team are as follows :
Sherwin da Cunha, Santosh Pujar, Ozen Silva, Cryson Fernandes, Assumption Soares, Liston Fernandes, Samson Pereira, Jesmon Soares, Akeraj Martins, Cliffton Barbosa, Veegam Ferrao, Mahesh Kumar, Leander D’Cunha, John Fernandes, Mathew Colaco, Fleming Dias, Maxsan Fernandes, Anil Shivolkar, Kirtikesh Gadekar.
Coach : Ajay Acharya
Assistant coach/ Manage : Charles Dias.
Goa is grouped in Tier-I along with Punjab, Meghalaya and Karnataka.
In their first match Goa will take on Punjab on September 23rd.
Jerry Boima karpeh scored a second half brace that helped Sporting Clube de Goa defeat Santa Cruz club of Cavelossim 4-1 in the Airtel Goa Pro League, organised by the GFA at Duler Stadium.
Read More : Sporting Clube de Goa hit four against Cavelossim
Dempo Sports club defeated Salgaocar Football Club 3-2 in the eighth round of the ongoing Airtel Goa pro-league taking place at the Duler grounds in Mapusa.
Read the match report : Dempo clinch 5-goal thriller
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Alberto Colaco, the former All India football Federation general secretary will join Dempo SC as the general secretary. The Gen. Sec post has been vacant at the club since After Armando Colaco, who was the the coach-cum-Gen. Sec at the club ended his contract after the last season.
Alberto Colaco is the only Indian to win Asian Football Confederation’s Distinguished Service Gold Star Award. There was also allegations that he himself nominated for the award.