Goans representing India womens football teams

The following players have represented Indian Women Football teams in international tournaments

SR NO	NAME OF THE PLAYER	TEAM
1	Yolanda D'Souza	Seniors
2	Rekha Karapurkar	Seniors
3	Juliana Gurjao	Seniors
4	Helen Fernandes	Seniors
5	Succorinha Pereira	Seniors
6	Fatima Rodrigues	Seniors
7	Elma D'Cunha	Seniors
8	Clementina Fernandes	Seniors
9	Ritinha Pereira	Seniors
10	Maria Rebello	Seniors
11	Vinda Fernandes	Seniors
12	Elvy Fernandes	Seniors
13	Komol Pereira	Seniors
14	Sylvia D'Souza	Seniors
15	Tracy Pereira	Seniors
16	Sheila Fernandes	Seniors
17	Maymol Rocky	Seniors
18	Blanca Barretto	Seniors
19	Uvena Fernandes	Seniors
20	Domiana Gomendes	Seniors
21	Sharon Fernandes	Seniors
22	Snehal Morajkar	India U19
23	Sujita Murgaonkar	India U19
24	Candice Fernandes	India U19
25	Malvita Mascarenhas	India U19
26	Michelle Castanha	India U19
27	Tarini Singh	India U19
28	Nikita Pinto	India U14
29	Svetlana Falcao	India U14
30	Nevilla Colaco	India U14
31	Ansiva Vaz	India U14
32	Velanie Fernandes	India U14
33	Luiza Gracy Simoes	India U13
34	Preeti Shinde	India U13
35	Salma Fernandes	India U13
36	Josline D'Souza	India U13
37	Anline Sharmila Fernandes	India U13
38	Avia Jean Vaz	India U13
39	Scindia Saundatikar	India U13
40	Lifa Gama	India U13

Goans in India Junior Football Teams

The following Goan players have represented Indian Junior Football teams

(Note - Players who went on to represent the senior side have not been included in the list)

SR NO NAME OF THE PLAYER TEAM YEAR 1 Brandon Fernandes     India U13 2007 2 Jesmon Joannes Carvalho     India U13 2007 3 Sam Noronha     India U13 2011 4 Shilton Eusebio Fernandes     India U13 2007 5 Aaron Rodrigues     India U14 2012 6 Joel Fernandes     India U14 2009 7 Kapil Satish Hoble     India U14 2012 8 Myron Mendes     India U14 2009 9 Schubert D’Costa     India U14 2012 10 Shallum Pires     India U14 2006 11 Vineet Bugde     India U14 2012 12 Albino Gomes     India U16 2009 13 Constancio Rodrigues     India U16 2010 14 Joshuah Vaz     India U16 2005 15 Meldon D’Silva     India U16 2009 16 Presley Mascarenhas     India U16 2007 17 Marcelo Dias     India U18 2004 18 Branco Vincent Cardozo (TFA) India U19 2006 19 Covan Lawrence     India U19 1998 20 Garry D'Mello     India U19 2004 21 Godwin Franco     India U19 2003 22 Milagrio Madeira     India U19 2000 23 Seby Antao     India U19 1988 24 Beevan D'Mello     India U20 2006 25 Clifton Gonsalves     India U20 2005 26 Lavino Fernandes     India U20 2006 27 Laxmikant Kattimani     India U20 2005 28 Steven Fernandes     India U20 2005 29 Terence Lobo     India U20 2005 30 Alex Alvares     India U21 1999 31 Melwyn Rodrigues     India U21 1998 32 Romeo Fernandes India U22 2012 33 Prathamesh Maulingkar India U22 2012 34 Bernard Pires     India U23 2005 35 Victor Lobo     India U23 1995 36 Anthony Barbosa India U23 2011 37 Inacio Fernandes India Schools 38 Casmiro Palha India Schools 39 Michael Gomes India Schools 40 Joaquim Palha India Schools 41 Dominic D'Souza India Schools 42 Anthony Baptista India Youth 43 Sarto Baptista India Youth 1982 44 Suhas Gaonkar India Youth 45 Suhas Walke India Youth

Goans in India Beach Soccer Team

The following players represented the Indian Beach Soccer Team

1	Gavin Elias Araujo
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007
	- 1st Asian Beach Games, Bali 2008
2	Remedios Colaco
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007
	- 1st Asian Beach Games, Bali 2008
3	Levino Anthony Pereira
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007
	- 1st Asian Beach Games, Bali 2008
4	Augustinho Rodrigues
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007
	- 1st Asian Beach Games, Bali 2008
5	Antonio Prestly Pereira
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007
	- 1st Asian Beach Games, Bali 2008
6	Dominic F de Souza
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007
	- 1st Asian Beach Games, Bali 2008
7	Venancio Gonsalves
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007
	- 1st Asian Beach Games, Bali 2008
8	Thome Alex Alvares
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007
9	Bruno Coutinho
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007
10	Ajay Gopal Acharya
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007
11	Sebastiao Dias
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007
12	Elvis Pereira
	- Beach Soccer WC Qualifiers, Dubai 2007

Goan footballers in India's Senior side

Goans who have represented India in the Senior National Football Team.

SR NO	NAME OF THE PLAYER	YEAR
1	Neville Stephen D'Souza (Bombay)	1953
2	Fortunato Franco (Bombay)	1960
3	Deryk D'Souza (Bombay)	1960
4	Menino Figueireido	1963
5	Anthony Braganza (Bombay)	1964
6	Marto Gracias (Bombay)	1967
7	Andrew D'Souza	1968
8	Visitacao Lobo	1970
9	Ramesh Redkar	1973
10	Nicholas Pereira	1973
11	Bernard Pereira	1973
12	Brahmanand Shankhwalkar	1976
13	Prakash Naik	1977
14	Armando Colaco	1977
15	Francis D'Souza	1978
16	Ashok Fadte	1984
17	Anthony Rebello	1982
18	Jose D'Souza	1983
19	Camilo Gonsalves	1983
20	Bento Andrew	1983
21	Mahesh Lotlikar	1983
22	Chandrakant Naik	1984
23	Mauricio Afonso	1984
24	Arnold Rodrigues	1984
25	Anthony D'Souza	1984
26	Ignatius Dias	1984
27	Derrick Pereira	1984
28	Savio Madeira	1987
29	Lawrence Gomes	1987
30	Johnny Araujo	1987
31	Lector Mascarenhas	1989
32	Norbert Gonsalves	1989
33	Mario Soares	1989
34	Bruno Coutinho	1991
35	Roy Barretto	1992
36	Francis Silveira	1993
37	Roberto Fernandes	1996
38	Francis Coelho	1996
39	Franky Barretto	1997
40	Jules Alberto	1999
41	Mahesh Gawli	1999
42	Roque Barretto	2000
43	Alvito D'Cunha	2001
44	Alex Ambrose	2002
45	Samir Naik	2002
46	Selwyn Fernandes	2003
47	Climax Lawrence	2003
48	Felip Gomes	2005
49	Bibiano Fernandes	2005
50	Clifford Miranda	2005
51	Micky Fernandes	2006
52	Fredy Mascarenhas	2006
53	Anthony Pereira	2007
54	Denzil Franco	2008
55	Joaquim Abranches	2011
56	Peter Carvalho	2011
57	Rowilson Rodrigues	2011
58	Valeriano Rebello	2011
59	Francis Fernandes	2011
60	Adil Khan	2012
61	Lenny Rodrigues	2012

Soccer - Women Players of Goan origin for other countries

CANADA

1) Victoria Correa - Parsons
Goalkeeper
- Won a bronze medal with Canada at the 2008 CONCACAF Women's Under-17 Championship in Trinidad & Tobago

2) Megan Dourado- Represented Canada at the World University Games at Izmir, Turkey from Aug 10 to Aug 21, 2005

Soccer - International players of Goan origin for other countries

NORWAY

1) Thomas Pereira
8 senior international caps (1997 - 2003)
2 caps for Norway U21

KENYA

1) Effie Antao
2) Oscar D'Mello - Goalkeeper
3) Saude George
4) Cajetan Fernandes
5) Alex Fernandes
6) Albert Castanha


CANADA

1) Elton Fernandes - Canada U20

Joel Joaquim Fernandes for India U-13

Midfielder Joel Joaquim Fernandes represented the India U-13 team in the AFC Under-13 Boys Festival of Football for the South Asian region to be held from May 17 to 24, 2009.

India was held by hosts Iran to a 1-1 draw in the Format I tournament and suffered a surprising 0-2 defeat by the hands of Afghanistan. The boys had their last Format I match against the Maldives, whom the Indians trashed 4-0.

The Indian youngsters had a better outing in their Format II tournament matches. They went down to Iran (0-3), but were able regroup against Afghanistan (1-0) and Maldives (6-0).

Nikita Pinto and Preeti Shinde for India U-14 Football

Nikita Pinto and Preeti Shinde represented India Under-14 Girls squad in the first-ever AFC Under-14 Girls Football Festival in the South & Central Asia zone played at Colombo, Sri Lanka from April 30, 2009 to May 5, 2009.

The team lost to Jordan 0-1,drew with Iran 0-0, beat Sri Lanka 8-0 and 6-0, and beat Bhutan 15-0.

Snehal Morajkar, Sujita Murgaonkar, Candice Fernandes and Malvita Mascarenhas for Indian women football team

Snehal Morajkar, Sujita Murgaonkar, Candice Fernandes and Malvita Mascarenhas have represented India Women's Under 19 team in the Asian Football Confederation Women's Championships 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from October 29 to November 5.

Snehal Morajkar scored India's lone goal in the match against Iran.

Shane Anthony for Arsenal Soccer Festival

Shane Anthony of St. Britto High School was among the 16 School footballers from across India trained in 'The Arsenal Way' by Paul Shipwright (Arsenal Soccer School) and Martin Davis (Arsenal FC Development Officer) and who participated in the 18th Arsenal International Soccer Festival in London from July 26 to August 1, 2008. The team under the name of "Tata Tea Arsenal Soccer Stars" was chosen amongst 400 children who took part in a national school football tournament. The 30 best amongst those were chosen and then trained for a couple of weeks at the Calcutta Cricket & Football Club with the best 16 chosen for the tournament in London.

The team from India drew with Acton Ealing (London) 2-2, beat Fk Orn-Horten (Norway) 2-0 and lost to West Hartford (USA) 0-3.

Albert Gonsalves for soccer training in Brazil

School footballer Albert Gonsalves was selected through the Coca-Cola organised "Grassroots talent hunt" and included in a group of 16 Indian school footballers to train at the Brazilian Football Academy in Rio de Janeiro.

The players were selected from among 3,000 footballers who participated in an all-India tournament held across eight cities. The Indians would be among 312 players from 26 countries who would be undergoing a week-long training camp at BFA from July 7 to 12, 2008. Former Indian international Jo Paul Ancheri would accompany the players as coach. The training at BFA, will be supervised by former Brazil national coach Carlos Alberto Pereira, who is the technical director of the Academy.

Denzil Franco in India national soccer team to Portugal

Denzil Franco has found a place in the national side for their tour to Portugal. The other Goans in the side are all seasoned internationals, Climax Lawrence, Mahesh Gawli, Sameer Naik and Clifford Miranda.

The team match fixtures and results are as under
July 5 - Beat Gouveia 2-0 (Goals - Climax, Tarif Ahmed)
July 10 - Beat GD Gafanha 3-2 (Goals - Sunil Chetri-2, Tarif Ahmed)

Goan in India u-16 Soccer team exposure tour to US

Shallum Pires has found a place in the India U-16 team's four week exposure-cum-training tour to West Virginia in the United States. For the team, the trip to the US is part of their exposure ahead of the Asian U16 Championship finals to be held in October 2008.

Match Schedule in West Virginia:
July 6: INDIA U16 - Metro FC (Ohio)
July 7: INDIA U16 - NCAA Blast FC (Ohio)
July 12: INDIA U16 - West Virginia Rowdies
July 13: INDIA U16 - Columbia United (South Carolina)
July 18: INDIA U16 - West Virginia Olympic Development Team
July 19: INDIA U16 - West Virginia Olympic Development Team
July 24: INDIA U16 - West Virginia United

Goans in India U-13 Girls Soccer Team

Salma Fernandes, Josline D'Souza, Preeti Shinde and Luiza Gracy Simoes represented India in the inaugural AFC U13 Girls Football Festival to be held at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from June 23 to 27.

Joel Fernandes at FC Bayern Football Camp, Germany

Joel Fernandes of St Britto's High School, Mapusa, is the lone Goan among five Indian youth foootballers selected to undergo training at FC Bayern Football Camp, Germany.

Joel will be flown to FC Bayern Football School in Germany by Lufthansa after he was selected at Adidas FC Bayern Football Clinic held in Kolkata which was attended by 44 football enthusistas from all over India. Goa was represented by 4 players from Youth Football Organisation (YFO).

The children were coached by Bayern Munich and participated in a series of futsal games. Based on their overall performance during the clinic, five players were selected by the Bayern Munich coaching staff for the camp in Germany. The Adidas FC Bayern football clinic is an example of Adidas commitment to promoting sports at the grassroot level in India.

Joel is the son of former Dempo player Baptist Fernandes who is a SAG coach.

Brandon Fernandes in India U-14 Soccer Team

Midfielder Brandon Fernandes has been selected to represent the India U-14 Soccer team at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-14 Festival to be held in the Iranian capital, Tehran from May 18-23. AFC's eight member associations -- hosts Iran, India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan and Nepal are taking part in the festival.

Junior boys at International Soccer Clubs/Academies

Shallum Pires and Arnold Cardoso trained at the FC Porto Academy for a month accompanied by youth coach Lino Pereira.

Joshuah Vaz - trained at an academy allied to Clube Vitoria de Guimaraes in Guimaraes, Portugal for 5 months from Feb to July 2007. He then went back to the same club in Sept 2007 for a 10 months stint. He will be joined by Dawson Fernandes, Aiken Dias and brother Charlton Vaz for the longer stint at Clube Vitoria.

Paul Soares - plays for U-16 team of Excelsior Vitron, a second division club in Belgium.