Could you please let us know how Menino Caldeira can be helped ? Cheers
Pamela Kenyon Bank of I.D.E.A.S. 'The person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds' (Mark Twain) Website: www.bankofideas.com.au Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Subject: *** Goanet News Bytes * June 25, 2005 * The case for government grants to English medium primary schools... Goan Pele on his last legs: In the seventies and early eighties, Menino Caldeira was the cynosure of all sports lovers. Called the Goan Pele, he was perhaps the first Goa-born and based African player to play soccer in Goa. Now he has been deserted by family and friends and is forced to beg for a living. Caldeira is suffering from gangrene and both his feet are wrapped in plastic. Born in Santa Cruz, Ponda, he was popularly known as 'Hampri'. He played for Salgaocars, Vasco and Dempo, and Morarji Mills and Piramal Mills in Mumbai. His dribbling, body feints, free kicks and one-touch football were in a class of its own. "God have mercy on me and my I die as I cannot bear the pain. People are very kind in helping me by giving me food. But neither the Goa Football Association nor the Goa government helped me," Caldeira rues. (Oswald Soares in Gomantak Times)