{"id":90893,"date":"2023-08-27T10:53:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T05:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=90893"},"modified":"2023-08-27T10:53:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T05:23:44","slug":"vasco-gets-a-brand-new-boxing-arena-at-joggers-park-chicalim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=90893","title":{"rendered":"Vasco gets a brand new Boxing Arena at Joggers Park, Chicalim"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jab and Box Boxing Club founded by ex-boxers make their dream a reality with a full fledged first boxing centre in Vasco<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Minister for Panchayat, Transport and Industries,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Mauvin Godinho inaugurated training facility at Chicalim<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Goa Khabar:<\/strong>\u00a0The Jab and Box Boxing Arena was inaugurated on Tuesday morning at the Joggers Park in Chicalim-Goa by\u00a0Minister for Panchayat, Transport and Industries,\u00a0Mauvin Godinho, in the presence of President of the Jab and Box Boxing Club and Acting Sarpanch of Sancoale, Girish Pillai, Treasurer of Goa Amateur Boxing Association, Danuska Da Gama and others.<\/p>\n

The new arena inside the brand new Joggers Park that is yet to be inaugurated has been a long pending dream of ex-boxers from Vasco who reined the ring in the 90\u2019S. Jab and Box Boxing Club\u2019s Boxing Arena is a testament to the dedication and collective effort of individuals with the support of minister and local authorities spanning the last two years, to start a centre in Vasco to revive the sport and to spread it in pockets of South Goa.<\/p>\n

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Impressed with the equipment installed, including a floor ring\u2014 the first-of-its-kind seen in Goa,\u00a0Minister\u00a0for Panchayat, Transport and Industries,\u00a0Mauvin Godinho,<\/strong>\u00a0while addressing the guests gathered said: \u201cThe intention is to provide a platform for the youth to engage in positive and exciting sports activities. Boxing, in particular, lacks sufficient support, and our aim was to establish a remarkable arena here. I am sure we can train boxers and then organise national and international boxing championships at the new stadium coming up,\u201d he said. He added, that Boxing as a sport has seen tremendous popularity in India.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA coach can play a big role in shaping a boxer. Technique, speed, footwork, and polishing is required and I will do everything possible to ensure boxers from Vasco get the best in terms of training,\u201d he added. He lauded the members of Jab and Box Boxing Club for tirelessly working towards setting up the centre.<\/p>\n

Three exhibition bouts were organised so as to give people a feel of live boxing.\u00a0Jab and Box Club Boxing Club under the leadership and support from its\u00a0president and Acting\u00a0Sarpanch of Sancoale, Girish Pillai\u00a0<\/strong>have plans to host a state championship in December. Speaking at the inaugural he said: \u201cThis was a dream of the members of the Jab and Box Boxing Club who were boxers in the 90\u2019s. Back then we didn\u2019t have support, finances or infrastructure. But, we always loved sports and wanted to do something in Vasco. This is a dream come true, and I hope the children from Vasco come forward to become champions and we will do our best to support their dreams and make them national medallists,\u201d he said. He urged GABA and SAG to render support to the club that has taken the baton forward to initiate training.<\/p>\n

Premenand Kudalkar, secretary of club, Praveen Kudalkar, Vincent Soundraj, Umesh Naik, Nitin Ajgaonkar, members of the club worked hard to make the inauguration a success and have been actively involved in setting up the arena in a matter of days.<\/p>\n

Goa Amateur Boxing Association for long has been requesting the government to start\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jab and Box Boxing Club founded by ex-boxers make their dream a reality with a full fledged first boxing centre in Vasco Minister for Panchayat, Transport and Industries,\u00a0Mauvin Godinho inaugurated training facility at Chicalim Goa Khabar:\u00a0The Jab and Box Boxing Arena was inaugurated on Tuesday morning at the Joggers Park in Chicalim-Goa by\u00a0Minister for Panchayat, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":90894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3745,155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-90893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-155","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90893","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=90893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90895,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90893\/revisions\/90895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}