And yet, every single time he sees the legendary Zico, Brazilian coach and former footballer training the players of FC Goa, he still feels that he has a lot to learn.

 Sharing his thoughts on the legendary player, Colaco who presently coaches East Bengal says, “One can see a lot of eagerness and excitement in the way Zico trains and monitors the practice sessions. He does not put pressure on anybody; he makes the training sessions enjoyable. He has been all over the world and is now here to train FC Goa, so there is eagerness in the players in wanting to learn from him. Even I have learned many things as well only by watching him.”

 FC Goa is one of the eight teams to compete in the 2014 Hero Indian Super League (ISL) which got underway at Kolkata on October 12th. The team has recently signed exciting players like Arsenal stars Robert Pires and Andre Santos and I-league champ Ranti Martins.

 Excited about the line-up, Colaco says, “When foreign players come and play with our local players, there is a tendency for improvement. We have to be patient and hope that everything works out well. I’m sure that there will be positive changes in football in near future.”

 Speaking about Robert Pires, he says, “Pires’ humility is very inspiring. He does not travel in a trailer nor does he have a special arrangement for himself. For the match against Sesa FA, when Romeo Fernandes crossed, he said ‘well done’ and hugged him. So, that means that he wants to see Indian players come up. He’s a legend and has won the World Cup for France and represented Arsenal, yet he’s still the same old player.”

 Coloaco is highly optimistic about the entire ISL initiative, “ISL may prove to be that stepping stone for football to go ahead. In order to reach somewhere, you need to start somewhere. I am sure that there will be positive changes.”

21/10/2014 … Ninety six children participated in the first ever Grassroots Festival conducted by Dempo Sports Club at the St. Brittos High School grounds on Monday morning.

The primary focus of the festival was to introduce small children to the game of football. Children aged between 6-10 years were divided into five groups and guided though a series of six activity stations. Each station had a coach and the activities ranged from juggling, ball control to 2×2 sided games.

This initiative was a part of the memorandum signed between the club and St. Brittos High School Mapusa. The club will help organize Grassroots festivals and football camps for the school children apart from providing equipment’s to the school teams.

Those present on the occasion were Fr. Cedric Fernandes- Principal of St. Brittos H.S, Wilfred D’Souza- General Secretary, Marcelino Pereira- Dempo Juniors Coach, Kanan  Priolkar- Dempo U19 coach and members of teaching staff Joel, Firoz and Pawan.

17/10/2014 …. Not able to get the required co-operation from the president, secretary and staff members of the goa cricket association the two member committee of r k raghuvendra who are investigating in to the financial and administrative affairs of the Goa Cricket Association have now decided to take help from the income tax department so as to look in to the alleged financial irregularities that have taken place in goa cricket association

It may be noted that a two member committee comprising of CMO of Bits Pilani KM Raghevandra and chartered accountant Pradeep lad are investigating in to the financial and administrative affairs of the Goa Cricket Association

On Thursday the two-member inquiry committee who had called on the managing committee members of goa cricket association to appear before them where in only the eight member team lead by dr salkar appeared while gca president and secretary along with other members failed to appear before the investigating team

If gca staff do not cooperate with them investigating office k raguhvendra said that they would not mind to take assistance of the police officials asking them to help them in the investigating process

earlier Last Monday an eight member team of the managing committee of goa cricket association headed by dr shekar salkar had presented documents to the investigating team alleging irregularities amounting to a total of 26 lakhs given in cash to a sports company by the gca secretary in 2008 while on Thursday the concerned team also presented another sort of documents where in an amount of four crore forty two lakhs paid to the concerned company dev musco lighting pvt ltd owned by former criketer who have erected floodlights to gca using gca address …

14/10/2014 …. An eight member team of the managing committee of goa cricket association on Monday presented documents to the investigating team consisting of KM Raghevandra and chartered accountant Pradeep Lad alleging irregularities amounting to a total of 26 lakhs given in cash to a sports company by the gca secretary in 2008 and other irregularities …

It may be noted that a two member committee comprising of CMO of Bits Pilani KM Raghevandra and chartered accountant Pradeep are investigating in to the financial and administrative affairs of the Goa Cricket Association

The two member committee on Monday heard former gca secretary and president of the Torda Sports Club Prasad phaterpekar who had written in his letter to the Registrar that his club has continued to suffer at the hands of GCA officials …

Speaking to media reporters investigating team consisting of KM Raghevandra the eight members of the gca managing committee had brought to their notice of certain irregularities and ahad laso informed them of not showing them the minutes books for months …

Meanwhile dr salkar said that his eight member team had not seen minutes book for the past so many months and therefore had told the investigating team that they should not be held responsible for any irregularities if found in the ongoing investigating process …

Dr salkar also alleged that an amount of 26 lakhs were paid by the then gca secretary and treasurer in ways of cash to a Mumbai based kho kho sports firm