It is the last match day of the group stages as Bengaluru 5s and Goa 5s battled it out to join Kolkata 5s in the Semi-Final from Group B. Goa 5s played their last game without a marquee player with Cafu still to arrive in India. Today, will be a …
Read More »Premier Futsal: Goa and Kolkata share the spoils in 2-2 draw!
Despite wanting to change the schedule of matches, Goa played the opener of the Goa leg of Premier Futsal with the home team taking on Kolkata 5’s without their marquee player, Ronaldinho having to return home. However, Goa came back from two goals down to earn a 2-2 draw against …
Read More »Premier Futsal: Revised Schedule to accommodate Cafu’s arrival!
After the success in Chennai of the first-leg of the inaugural Premier Futsal league, the bandwagon shifted today across to Goa for the second-leg and the knockouts to be played over the coming days with the big final on Sunday, July 24. But the Premier Futsal earlier today announced that …
Read More »Premier Futsal: Vintage Ronaldinho scores five, Goa routs Bengaluru 7-2!
Goa 5s ran down Bengaluru 5s 7-2 as Ronaldinho set alight the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai with a virtuoso five goal performance, the best of Premier Futsal so far. Ronaldinho and Paul Scholes shared the same pitch after a long eight years, with the duo last facing off …
Read More »Premier Futsal: Mumbai & Kolkata kick-off league with wins!
The inaugural edition of Premier Futsal kicked-off at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai tonight with Mumbai beating Chennai and Kolkata getting the better of Goa in identical 4-2 wins. CHENNAI 5s 2-4 MUMBAI 5s Mumbai overpowered Chennai in the first ever Premier Futsal game in Chennai. Ryan Giggs …
Read More »Inaugural star-studded Premier Futsal league to be only six team & two venue event!
Not all is good for the organisers of the inaugural Premier Futsal league which is now set to be held from July 15 to 24 with less teams and across two venues, then only six city-based teams play each other in two groups and then knockouts in Chennai and Goa. …
Read More »Karishma Shirvoikar shines in Goa Junior Girl’s win over West Bengal!
Karishma Shirvoikar’s superlative hattrick helped the Goa Junior Girls team beat the West Bengal Junior Girls team 3-1 in the first round match of the National Football Championship for Junior Girls organised by the All India Football Federation in Cuttack, Odisha. In the match that was played at Cuttack’s Barabati …
Read More »Goa name team for Junior Women’s National Football Championship!
The Goa Football Association has selected their final squad for the Goa Junior Women’s Team for the Junior Women’s National Football Championship to be played from July 1 to 20, 2016 in Cuttack, Odisha. The trials were held on May 16/17 with an aim to send the best possible Goan …
Read More »How can the AIFF work to avoid Goa’s #ILeagueExit?
The All India Football Federation was surprised and shocked by the sudden joint exit from the I-League by the Goan clubs Salgaocar FC and Sporting Clube de Goa with the national bodies response not being the best with a potential pullout by third Goan side Dempo SC also possible. And …
Read More »Is the AIFF still in control of Indian club football?
June 24, 2016 will be remembered as a black day not only in Europe due to the Brexit referendum but also in Indian football with former champions Salgaocar FC and Sporting Clube de Goa deciding to exit the I-League as both clubs do not see a future in the I-League …
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