Savio Should Sulk in Shame

It has been a while now that Elvis Gomes has been crowned King of Goan football. Honestly , there was nothing newsy about his win. If not winning unopposed , he was expected to drub his opponent. Luckily, Savio Messias did not allow stupidity pile on him. Had he not contested , he would have found himself unrestored.

Unfortunately , in life there are people who allow the mundane to carry them away. It is easy to forget . Not really , sometimes the dirty mechanisms of man are easier to remember. Especially when man uses mechanisms to further his selfish games instead of sports. It all leads to games people play. This was more than evident in this Goa Football Association (GFA) election.

Savio’s climb to the GFA was not pedagogic. He never got into football because he loved the game. Rather , he used the game to further his interests-business ones. That is why in one of his press notes released after he withdrew from the presidential race- he boasted that he had made a fixed deposit of over Rs one crore for GFA. Now, can one develop football with a FD? How naive.

Anyway, that is Savio. Someone , who has always used others to further his cause and not that of the game. Many years ago , it was Savio Messias who had ganged up against Alberto Colaco. He fought – not an open war but a hide and seek  war  with Colaco . Like now , Savio used the press to fight his war. At that time , nobody won. Alberto was booted from the All India football Federation (AIFF) and Savio had to do with the left overs of the GFA.

Time heals it is said. Not in the case of these two guys. It was not despondency that brought them together during this election. Rather it was the knowledge that they were losing the grip of the game to some one more able and honest that had them sweat. Not just that. Elvis knows the Chief Ministers mind on football.

So , this election , old foes came together to try and prevent a man who wants and will take football  forward , from doing so. At first they tried to use the big fish. If not the fish , their names were used and fed to sardines. Vulnerable people were coaxed and even a man like Tony Remedios was pestered to sand for the post of president.

Nothing worked. Realising that he would be routed, Savio Messias withdrew. But the barbs of defeat still linger on. Instead of trying to move forward with football, Savio has now started using the press. This time ,he has got some of them in the press to lick his festered wound. How? Wine and women , Savio has told some of his friends.

Fortunately , this time , football is not looking back. For passion is not Elvis’s only weapon. Blind belief in God is. With such a weapon , trespassing him will be foolish !