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Tejan Fallary, Anura Prabhudesai and Yasmin Sayed had plenty to celebrate at the SAG State Ranking Badminton championship organised by Goa Badminton Association in collaboration with the Sports Authority of Goa, at Indoor stadium, Campal, Panaji. Tejan bagged a triple crown, winning the Boys Under 17 and Under 19 singles and the Under 19 Boys doubles partnering Sanath Kamat. Anura romped home winner in Girls Under 17 and Under 19 singles while Yasmin emerged winner in Girls Under 13 and Under 15 singles, both girls winning double crowns each. Parteek Mahajan emerged Mens singles champion. The Mens doubles title was won by Pankaj Naik and Navneet Nasnodkar. Soham Khandeparkar and Aashrun Gautam emerged Boys Under 13 and Under 15 Boys singles champions respectively.

Mr. B. Vijayan, Chief Secretary, Government of Goa, was the Chief Guest for the occasion. Mr. Richard De Souza (President, Goa Badminton Association), Shri Narahar Thakur (Secretary, GBA) and GBA committee members Ashok Menon, Gaurish Dhond, Sarfraz Sheikh, Sandeep Heble, Shashank Naik, Luciano Soares and Santosh Prabhudesai graced the occasion. The tournament was officiated by NIS Coaches Roy Athaide and Vinayak Kamat.

Finals Results:

Under 13 Girls Singles
Yasmin Sayed bt Lydia Barretto 21-9, 21-13

Under 13 Boys Singles
Soham Khandeparkar bt Sushil Nayak 21-15, 19-21, 21-19

Under 15 Girls Singles
Yasmin Sayed bt Megan D'; Souza 21-14, 21-18

Under 15 Boys Singles
Aashrun Gautam bt Yash Kunkoliekar 21-6, 21-17

Under 17 Girls Singles
Anura Prabhudesai bt Megan D'; Souza 21-5, 21-4

Under 17 Boys Singles
Tejan Fallary bt Aashrun Gautam 21-18, 21-17

Under 19 Girls Singles
Anura Prabhudesai bt Pranjal Chimulkar 16-21, 21-6, 21-8

Under 19 Boys Singles
Tejan Fallary bt Sanath Kamat 21-15, 17-21, 21-16

Under 19 Boys Doubles
Tejan Fallary and Sanath Kamat bt Aashrun Gautam and Yash Kunkoliekar 21-6, 21-9

Mens Singles
Parteek Mahajan bt Tejan Fallary 21-12, 21-18

Mens Doubles
Pankaj Naik and Navneet Nasnodkar bt Floyd Araujo and Darwin Barretto 21-16, 21-17

S. Caculo college, Mapusa will play GVM's College, Ponda in the finals of the Inter collegiate cricket championship for men organised by Goa University, at University grounds.

In the first semi finals S. Caculo College defeated Salgaoncar Law college, Miramar by 41 runs.
Put in to bat first Caculo college scored 146 for five wickets in 20 overs. Snehal Kauthankar 34, Achit Shigwan 45, Laksay Garg 33, Prathamesh Gawas 11 were the major contributors with the bat.
Siddhesh Gohankar 2/9 was the most successful bowler for Salgaoncar

In reply, Salgaoncar could make only 105  in 19.2 overs. Kyle Ticlo 13, Viraj Pandit 31, Deepesh Shetkar 24, and Sachit Manshor 11 batted well. Siddhesh Govekar 2/24, Akshay Gadekar 2/13, Achit Shigwan 2/16 and Vaman Parab 3/24 were the top bowlers for Caculo college.

In the second semis, GVM's Ponda  defeated Don Bosco college, Panajim by  34 runs.
GVM's won the toss and elected to bat. they scored 165 for 5 in 20 overs.

U. Maechiah 31, Srinivas Phadte 91, and Mukund Bandodkar 27 contributed with the bat.  Mithun Gawas 2/22 was the successful bowler.
Don Bosco were all out for 131 in 19.3 overs.
Bhavesh Haldankar 24, Atish Sawant 11, Mithun Gawas 11, Ajinkya Kurtarkar 17, Akshay Chopdekar 17, Nitish Raikar 26 were the top batsman.
For GVM's Srinivas Phadte 3/21 and Tushar Gaude 2/24  were the peak of the bowlers.

PRESS RELEASE: Airtel Rising Stars 2013-14, India’s largest under-16 soccer talent hunt and an initiative launched by Bharti Airtel to provide young talented footballers the chance-of-a-lifetime to train at the Manchester United Soccer School, today concluded its six-month hunt and handpicked 11 talented children who will travel to the United Kingdom and train at the prestigious school.


The selected players are Arka Dey and Rajib Roy from Kolkata, Md. Aqib and Karan Khurana from Delhi, Premchand Singh (GoalKeeper) and Niraj Singh from Bangalore, Sanath Valldares and Akram Khan from Mumbai, Rakesh K. from Hyderabad, Liston Colaco and Jolitan Dias from Goa. The two-day final trials took place under the guidance of Manchester United coaches Lami Sonola, Kevin O’Connell, Dave Chapman and Adam Hilton.

From warm up exercises that included dynamic stretching, fun competitive games with and without a football to rigorous sessions where coaches tested players with different scenarios and conditions, the two-day camp had it all. The players were also divided into teams and tested on some specific parameters such as physical attributes, individual skills, match situations and performances in actual matches. Sessions included areas such as dribbling skills, shooting skills and specialized workshop for players and goalkeepers.
Each player got equal opportunity and time to demonstrate his skills before 11 of the finest players were chosen to travel to Manchester United for a week and to train alongside the Manchester United Academy team.

Speaking about ‘Airtel Rising Stars 2013-14’, Rohin Pinto (Zonal Business Head, Goa & Konkan), Bharti Airtel said, “We are thrilled to have come to the end of yet another edition of ‘Airtel Rising Stars’ that gave us an opportunity to witness, first hand, the phenomenal talent that exists in our country. The program gave many children across India a chance to display their talent. We believe the 11 young children chosen today will transform into excellent footballers in the time to come. Airtel is delighted to associate with Manchester United and bring alive the football dreams of India’s many talented players.”

Delighted to announce the conclusion of ARS 2013-14, Lami Sonola from Manchester United said, “Each year, we are pleasantly surprised to see the kind of potential young players in India possess. This year again, it was a pleasure to take Airtel Rising Stars into its second year of serious soccer talent scouting and choose 11 young, dynamic and talented players who will possibly kick-off a career in professional football. I would also like to take this opportunity to commend the efforts of each player who participated in ARS this year and wish them the best.”

Kamshon Khongmalai and Azad Nirame from Bangalore, K. Nagaraju (Goalkeeper), A.Rahul and Mohd. Kasheem from Hyderabad have been selected as standbys incase an injury, illness or passport / visa problems occur to any of the selected players.

The on-ground execution of ‘Airtel Rising Stars’ has been entrusted to Procam International - India’s largest Sports marketing and Leisure Management company.

In 2009, Bharti Airtel had announced its tie-up with Manchester United to bring a variety of benefits for Airtel’s football loving customers in India. As part of this association, Airtel customers across India have been enjoying exclusive access to Manchester United football content as well as money-can’t-buy match experiences. The ARS programme is an extension of this long term association between brand Airtel and Manchester United.

Following is the team that will represent Goa at the 68th Santosh Trophy football tournament at Silliguri, West Bengal.  .

THE TEAM
Regan Juliao, Prajot Naik, Nevil Miranda, Stanley D’Silva, Valerio Rodrigues, Joel Henrique Sequeira, Meldon D’Silva, Umesh Harijan, Steven Fernandes, Alvito Miranda, Ponif Vaz, Agnelo Gomes, Nicholas Fernandes, Girish Naik,  Lenstan Afonso, Perryson Rebello, Lavino Fernandes, Sachin Gawas, Agnelo Colaco, Mario Mascarenhas.
                     
OFFICIALS                                                              
Mr. Gajanan Kerkar (Manager), Mr. Levino Anthony Pereira (Coach), Mr. Seby Noronha (GK.Coach), Mr. Vishwas Gaonkar (Technical Director), Mr. Lavinio Rebello  (Chefe de Mission), Mr. Danny Pereira (Physio).                                          

The team will leave for Silliguri on 20th February 2014.

Was time to give PSP a new look. So here's a fresh look to the blog.

You may ask, why football is dominant in the new look when PSP is actually about various other sports disciplines too? The answer to that is pretty simple. I am no tech guy. So I depend on various internet tools that allow me to mess with the look of my blog. This design was the most appropriate available and since football takes a major chunk of space here, my choice couldn't get simpler.

Hope you like the update. If you have suggestions, you are free to drop them in the comment box. 

Goa's Anushka Kuvelkar has been selected to represent the Indian Junior Team in the Mixed Doubles event to participate in the Dutch Junior International 2014 Grade A Badminton Tournament scheduled to be held in Badmintonhal Duinwijck, Netherland from 26th February to 2nd March 2014 and German Junior 2014 International Badminton championships scheduled to be held at Grobe Halle des Sportsforums Berlin, Germany from 6th to 9th March 2014. She will partner Chandrabhushan Tripathy from Uttar Pradesh.

The Goa Football Development Council opened a new chapter in its development for football in Goa by inaugurating its 1st Associate Football Development centre at Cuncolim Union Club house with over 100 trainees.

Speaking on the occasion Mr. Elvis Gomes, Member Secretary, GFDC was pleased with the opening of the associate centre which will attract participation from the club, parents and Cuncolkars at large. He expressed his desire to see at least one trainee from Cuncolim centre playing for India in the U 17 world cup to be held in India & Goa.


Addressing the gathering, Dr. Rufino Monteiro, Chairman, GFDC stated that Cuncolkars are fighters and have given the best players to the state. He also stated that instead of importing players or foreigners we should strive to export our players to play in outside state clubs like Concolkars, Internationals Mahesh Gawli and Mickey Fernandes have experienced and brought glory to our state. He also extorted the parents to encourage their children to play football and bring glory to our state sport by producing fine footballers for which GFDC is working hard to get foreign collaboration to train our coaches and youngsters as there is a great future for footballers as a career.

Brahmanand Shankwalkar spoke to the children how he reached to the top level by sheer determination and hard work and hoped the elders would encourage the youngsters to do the same.

Chief guest for the function Hon’ble MLA for Cuncolim Constituency, Shri. Rajan Naik expressed great pleasure with GFDC opening the centre in Cuncolim & urged the trainees to take benefit of the facilities available now and strive with total dedication & hard work to reach great heights.

Among the dignitaries present Arjuna Awardee & GFDC Council Member Brahmanand Shankwalkar, and renowned Cuncolkars Mahesh Gawli ( Indian International ) Mr. Levino Dias (Coach, Ex-Player), Mr. Ashok Phadte (Former India International Footballer) Mr. Mickey Fernandes (India International Footballer), Mr. Keenan (Sporting Clube de Goa) ;  GFDC members Stanislaus D’Souza, Agnelo Fonseca, Mr. Anthony Pango, GFA Member Prakash Desai (Vice President, Cuncolim union) and Mauvin D’Souza. Fr. Manuel Fernandes, parish priest of Cuncolim church blessed the formation of the GFDC Associate centre.

Evident enough, I have been an fan of Arsenal FC for years that I even haven't kept track of. Their performance has always been up to the mark but the results weren't really, especially in the last six years. Here's something more that I want to share and many of my fellow Gunners must have also noticed.