panaji chief secretary b vijayan made no efforts to hide his love for the beautiful game and called on the goa football development council gfdc to work toward its stated objective of having a minimum of five players in the indian squad for the under17 fifa 2017 world cup to be played on indian soil for now there are two goans among the probables but with gfdc keen to swell its trainee list to 5000 from the current 2600 there is hope that more goans will be watched by the national selectors goa recently successfully hosted the third edition of lusofonia games which are games for portuguesespeaking countries and colonies the biggest achievement of the games is that it rekindled the dormant sports culture in goa we next have the national games and if we are lucky the under17 world cup in 2017 vijayan said during the opening of the goa international football table gift at the shyama prasad mukherjee indoor stadium in bambolim on friday gfdc member secretary elvis gomes provided an elaborate welcome to the dignitaries and explained why the body was once again taking centre stage to bring together a few footballing minds our endeavour remains to continually learn the art and science of reaching those hallowed places in world football which have eluded the nation and seem to be so near yet are too far from reach said gomes sports secretary mathew samuels congratulated gfdc for organizing the second edition of gift while gfdc chairman dr rufino monteiro sought support from all stakeholders to make football stronger than ever before we are now embarking on a mission to develop talented boys in the age group of 1215 years by setting up two district residential academies this will be the forerunner to the elite academy which is our goal on the top of our pyramid of talent development said rufino monteiro the inauguration was followed by a panel discussion on gift 2013 the year that was which included goa football association president shrinvas dempo gfdc chairman dr rufino monteiro and ishmeet singh business head maharashtra and goa for vodafone as panellists award list lifetime achievers visitacao lobo former player yolanda de sousa former female player alberto colaco administrator late f x dsouza former referee late joao melo coach lavino dias junior coach upcoming under20 player alesh sawant vodafone scholarships pradip chopdekar coach of the year muren cruz promising trainee male cia almeida promising trainee female sushmita jadhav promising young trainee hansel coelho promising goalkeeper