POINGUINIM: Erstwhile hockey players hailing from Canacona who represented India in the National and International level will be felicitated by the Canacona Catholic Catholics Welfare Trust (CCWT) on Sunday.
The programme will be held at 3.30 p.m. in the premises of Lions Club House, Canacona.
President of the trust Diogo D’Silva has said, “We are organizing a programme to felicitate few sports personalities who have achieved excellence at National and International level in the game of hockey.’
“Incidentally, all of them belong to a same family from Canacona. All their achievements, like other members of our community have remained hidden. Most of their playing career had been in Maharashtra. We are trying to showcase their achievements to the people of Goa to which they belong,” D’Silva added.
Four persons have been shortlisted. They include Angela D’Souza e D’Sa who played for Indian Hockey team and also captained the Asian Games at Seoul, South Korea where India won the bronze medal.
The second athlete is Dorina Barreto e D’Sa, who played at the National level and represented the Indian Railways and Air India. While the third players is Jerry D’Sa, who played at the National level and fourthly, mother of Sebestiana D’sa who inspired her daughter to bring laurels.
