MUMBAI, March 17: The chairman, Works Committee (City), of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Digambar D Kandarkar, has invited the Bipin Memorial Football Association (BMFA) to have one of the centres of their 12th annual free coaching camp for boys and girls under-16 at the St Xavier’s ground, Parel. Accordingly, this venue will be one of the two new centres.
The other new centres will be at the Hansraj Morarji Public School, Andheri (W). The other four centres will be Churchgate, Kalina, Malad (Orlem) and Borivali (W). The coaches and the camp directors of the various centres are:
Parel: Coaches – Francis Fernandes, the former Junior India striker from Central Railway will be the chief coach. He will be assisted by Damodar Kuckian, the present Central Bank coach who was a deep defender with his team, Suresh Ravallu, the former Mafatlal Mills striker and Wilfred Pereira, deep defender of Western Railway. Camp director: Dolfred Pereira, linkman of Reserve Bank. Forms can be had fromDolfred Pereira, New BDT, Block No 14-13, Naigaum. Tel 4138865, and from St Xavier’s ground, Parel.
Andheri (W): Coaches – K Balakrishna, the former India defender from Central Railway and Mafatlal Mills, will be the chief coach and will be assisted by Bernard Pereira, former India right-winger from Vasco (Goa) and Orkay Mills, Kosalram, former India striker from CIL (Bangalore), Mohun Bagan and Western Railway, Manoj Shrivastava and Leon Bothello of Sahar Village Boys. Camp director: Mrs Nina Asaikar Rane, former captain of the Indian women’s hockey team, from whom can be had forms at the venue or on contacting her on Tel: 6362966.
Churchgate: Coaches – Dereyk D’Souza, former India striker from Caltex, Mafatlal and Mahindra and former National coach, will be the chief coach and will be assisted by Ratnakar Shetty, former Junior India deep defender and captain from Tatas and RCF, Abito Pires, former Mafatlal Mills and Central Railway left-winger, Tejpal Salian, former Central Bank andMafatlal Mills deep defender, Sabirbhai of Milan Sports Club, and Dilip Bengera, former Central Bank winger. Camp director: Harish Shetty, from whom can be had forms at the Karnatak S A ground Tel: 2631664.
Kalina: Coaches – S S Narayan, goalkeeper of the 1956 and 1960 Olympic teams, will be the chief coach. Other coaches will be T Balakrishnan, former Western Railway right winger, Srinivas Salian, former Vasco and Orkay Mills deep defender, Agnello D’Souza and M Singh of Indian Airlines. Camp directors: Oswin Mascarenhas and Johnny S Ribeiro. Forms can be had at St Mary’s School, Kalina Tel 6123548 and at Indian Airlines ground, Kalina.
Malad (Orlem): Coaches -Arthur Pereira, former International striker from Orkay Mills, will be the chief coach. Former Phoenix Mills & Bright Brothers and New India Assurance coach, Charli Padwal. He will be assisted by Francis Fernandes of Dena Bank, Elias Barretto of Bank of Baroda. Camp director: Edwin D’Souza, Cardinal GraciasColony, Miti Chowk, Orlem Tel: 8832654, from whom forms will be available.
Borivali: Coaches – Harish Rao, former Mahindras striker, will be the chief coach. He will be assisted by Sanjiva Utchil, the 1948 Olympian goalkeeper, S N Devadas, the Bank of India coach, Krishna Shelar, former Maharashtra State Police and Mahindras striker, Johnny Barretto, former Bombay Customs deep defender, Gokul Kanchan, former Bank of India winger, Purshottam Bangera, former Orkay Mills goalkeeper, and Suresh Rao, former Union Bank deep defender. Camp directors: Renwick D’Souza, Our Lady of Remedy Church compound (Tel 8060930) and Vasant Salian, Arihant Apartments, E 12, Mulji Nagar, Borivali (Tel 8020338). Forms can be had from the camp directors.