NEW SOCCER SEASON AT SOUR GROUND KUWAIT. The 22nd Season of Sour Ground Foot-ball festival will begin on coming Friday 13th of this month in the morning with the inaugural match of KIFF League cum Knock Out Tournament. The whole credit for initiating our competitive soccer at Sour Ground should go to United Goans Centre that has just completed 25 years of its existence. In the beginning it was only one tournament League cum Knock Out by UGC but later on Flying Arrows, Ida Memorial, Mercedes Cup and many other tournaments came into being. The main governing body KIFF came at a later stage with the active push by the late J.P. Demello – International Soccer Referee – and Lawrence Pinto, the latter put more stress in helping the formation of KIFF.
Since the inception of our soccer at Sour Ground lot of problems took place on and off the field but during the last 2-3 seasons especially the last year things went beyond control. Unfortunately, most of the troubles at Sour Ground are created by Goans only. Now since this is going to be the new season let us all hope that everyone involved in this soccer will maintain discipline and play and play the game for the sheer love of it and not to create disorder. This foot-ball of ours is not of high grade and there is nothing much at stake if someone loses and other wins. The purpose of our soccer here is to create some sort of entertainment for our community members. Before the inception of this soccer many of our youthful boys were addicted to some bad habbits but due to this soccer they got addicted to Sour Ground. Unfortunately many of them made bad use of this place and instead of creating and spreading goodwill they started spreading illwill thereby soiling the good image of Goan community beautifully carved out by our early Goans, overwhelming majority of them are no more in Kuwait. This season will start with the participation of 14 teams, some will be strong while others weak but all will show their physical prowess and artistic display of soccer. First time at Sour Ground latest rules and regulations will be applied as per the latest FIFA rules. The refereeing will be done by KIFF referees. This refereeing body was given immense coaching during the last 2 months so that they can use the latest rules and regulations which may not be known to many of the spectators. Hence, the spactotors should be very careful in making hue and cry over any incidents which may or may not be treated as infringement. In view of this the trouble maker spectators first must know the latest rules of our soccer before raising their voice from the sidelines. It is my sincere wish to see things moving peacefully at Sour Ground. This year the KIFF body is manned by efficient people namely Mr. Vohra as president and Justin as Sports Secretary besides others and with the help of participating teams and watchful spectators I am sure everything will go peaceful. I have enough confidence in Vohra and his energetic team to act rightly and very decisively in controlling the situation at Sour. If they succeed in dishing out peaceful administration they will be applauded if not they will be accused. If necessary to put things into order they must be ready to act very firmly in order to avoid the repetetion of last season's ugly incidents. Most of the quarrels at Sour Ground happen because of the disagreements between the referees and losing teams and their supporters. Matured and decent people will never take law into their hands and go for the blood of referees when there are civilized ways to get their grievances redressed. We must know one thing and very firmly that this soccer of ours is just for entertainment and to kill our time, there is nothing big at stake, it is not an European Cup or World Cup. Even during the last World Cup we saw biggest and worst miskates committed by the referees and yet nobody on and off the field quarrelled. Hence let everyone involved in this soccer apply his mind very firmly and try to create goodwill and friendship amongst all of us and this should be out motto. I wish all the participating teams and their managements All the best. So too KIFF and Kiff Referees. A. Veronica Fernandes, Kuwait. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
