panaji these are difficult days for the goa football association with limited financial resources the gfa has managed to soldier on for some time but there are growing concerns that the coronavirus pandemic will now make it worsethe association has had financial difficulties for a while now a year ago gfa wrote to chief minister pramod sawant and sought a grant of rs 5 crore the gfa executive committee members later met the chief minister in september and he promised to help the association with a grant of rs 1 crore an announcement was also made but that amount is yet to be transferred to gfa coffersgfa president and benaulim mla churchill alemao is following up with the authorities and has assured clubs that the money will arriveat the gfa headquarters in panaji gfa said all staff payments except for two have been cleared till june the decision on payment of salary pertaining to april when the office was closed due to the nationwide lockdown will be taken by the executive committee the executive committee is expected to meet next weekto make up for the shortfall in revenue the gfa has issued a circular letters have been sent to the clubs who are in arrears to make arrangements to clear the same states the circular santa cruz club of cavelossim rs 40000 and guardian angel sc rs 50000 have agreed to remit their respective amounts goas only ileague club churchill brothers fc are also making arrangements to clear their dues which are over rupees one lakhsporting clube de goa have told gfa that the due amount of rs 85900 has to be reconciled by the gfas accountant since the amount does not tally with the clubs recordsresumption of football activities could also bring some respite to the association but with the increasing number of covid19 cases in goa it looks unlikely that football can resume soonthe executive committee still has to decide on the fate of the goa professional league halted since march plans for the next season also need to be drawn