{"id":86698,"date":"2022-05-09T20:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=86698"},"modified":"2022-05-09T20:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T15:20:01","slug":"aquila-fc-and-blink-fc-crowned-champions-in-in-inaugural-edition-of-road2goa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=86698","title":{"rendered":"Aquila FC and Blink FC crowned champions in in inaugural edition of Road2Goa\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Goa Khabar: An action-packed inaugural edition of Road2Goa came to a conclusion this weekend with Aquila FC and Blink FC being crowned champions of\u00a0 Road2Goa in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s editions respectively at the Salvador do Mundo Panchayat Ground.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In addition to the coveted trophy, Aquila FC bagged INR 2 lakhs in the form of prize money. They defeated KFC (winners of the South Goa leg,\u00a0 who themselves received INR 1.5 lakhs for being the runners-up) in sudden death after normal time and the ensuing penalties were not enough to separate the two sides in the final.<\/p>\n

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In the women\u2019s category, winners Blink FC walked home with the winner\u2019s cheque after overcoming the challenge from ABC 13 Maina. Blink FC\u2019s Stessi Cardozo, meanwhile bagged the Best Player award in the women\u2019s tournament, her 6 goals helping Blink to the title.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on the tournament, FC Goa President Akshay Tandon said, \u201cI am absolutely thrilled to see the level of participation. The aim of the tournament was to create a meeting place for all football fans – starting with Goa. A place where you can experience your passion for football, in a safe and secure environment.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRoad2Goa is all about connecting communities and providing all a good experience. Making new friends and socialising with football at the heart of it all. The opportunity to play teams from other parts of the state and hopefully others states of India in the future. Winning or losing games together with your team mates.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Aquila FC\u2019s goalkeeper Augustine D\u2019Mello was adjudged the best player of the men\u2019s tournament thanks to his brilliance between the sticks for the eventual champions.<\/p>\n

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Sanroy D\u2019Sousa, owner of Aquilla FC weighed in with his experience of the tournament. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s heartening to see tournaments like Road2Goa being organised. It was a brilliant experience for us to play in the tournament and I hope this becomes bigger in the days to come.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWinning the tournament is, of course a great source of happiness for me and the players, but more importantly it was an event where the game of football won. It sets a great example for clubs around India on how to build a close-knit football community around the game that motivates the players and potential fans to be involved with a club like FC Goa.”<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the day KFC overcame the challenge of La Masia FC to win the South Goa leg whilst Aquilla FC got one over Saligao Mae De Seus in the North Goa final.<\/p>\n

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Parallel to the main event, a tournament organised for the media houses saw Sports Balcao walk away with the trophy after overcoming the challenges from The Goan and Prudent TV.<\/p>\n

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As part of the festivities, Road 2 Goa also gave a chance to the official FC Goa Fan Clubs viz. East Lower Army and FC Goa Fan Club to strut their stuff with the latter coming out as winners on penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Goa Khabar: An action-packed inaugural edition of Road2Goa came to a conclusion this weekend with Aquila FC and Blink FC being crowned champions of\u00a0 Road2Goa in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s editions respectively at the Salvador do Mundo Panchayat Ground.   In addition to the coveted trophy, Aquila FC bagged INR 2 lakhs in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":86699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3745,155,7],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-86698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-155","category-7","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}