AVC-Kuwait sponsored by Dawat Restaurants Kuwait won the finals of the United Goans Football tournament held on 27th May 2005 in Kuwait defeating Navelim Youth Center in the tiebreaker.
With this win AVC-Kuwait have been crowned Kuwait-India Football Federation (KIFF) Season's Champions for the year 2004-2005. The match played at 41 degrees centigrade took the toll out of players from both the teams. It was a real thrill to watch both teams displaying top discipline and quality soccer skills. Navelim dominated the proceedings in the 1st ten minutes giving no room to AVC captain Agnelo Miranda to orchestrate the moves, he was strongly bottled by medio Duarte from Navelim. AVC came back in their own line of attack with Roland, Liston and Francis (Jr) taking control of the half line and after that it was AVC all over the Navelim territory but they could not convert the moves into goals as Kevin and Molvit muffed up easy chances. However AVC were lucky not to concede a goal in the 1st half as Nicholas in the goal missed judged the flight of the ball and the ever agile defender Elvis made a goaline save. The second half saw AVC introducing their trump card Jimmy Gouevia who mesmerized the Navelim defence with his swift runs down the flank, luck did not smile on AVC from taking the lead. Britto of Navelim had a busy day under the bar and made spectacular saves of Francis (Jr), Ronny and Roland in the second half and Molvit's long ranger hit the cross bar and went out. The AVC defence marshaled by Godfrey, Elvis, Vincy and Alex gave nothing away till the last minute as the two center forwards of Navelim, Cruz & Ignatius were tightly marked and maneuvered. It was very obvious that Navelim missed the services of their star Gasper Crasto missing out due to injury and it was same with AVC with Francis (Sr) on leave. Since no goal was scored during the normal and extra time of play, the match had to be decided on tiebreaker. Young Nicholas of AVC came out with three superlative saves during the tie-breaker, it was a real ecstasy to watch him sending the Navelim players the wrong way which is always the other way round when the players send the goalkeeper at the wrong end, thereby giving AVC a very convincing victory. The season has been quite extraordinary for AVC-Kuwait as they have created history by winning the outstation tournament held in Bahrain and thereby becoming the only Goan team from Kuwait to have achieved this feat in a short time, when many predicted that they will survive only 2 seasons. In a press note released The Management of AVC would like to thank all the players the Captain of AVC Mr. Agnelo Miranda, Coach Mr. Alvaro Dias and Team Manager Mr. Donald Colaco for this accomplishment and thereby reaching AVC Kuwait at the pinnacle of glory and recognition. As said by many the AVC team is a very well balanced side with seniors guiding the juniors and the juniors respecting their seniors. On and off the field the discipline of the team is extraordinary. Well-done boys keep the unity going. >From : Damien D'Cruz ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Does he tell you he loves you when he's hitting you? Abuse. Narrated by Halle Berry. http://us.click.yahoo.com/aFQ_rC/isnJAA/E2hLAA/0FHolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> http://www.goa-world.com http://www.live365.com/stations/61664 Live Konkani Music http://www.mahableshwar.com/ Addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL to this page: http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulf-goans/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
