Sporting Clube de Goa

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Sporting Clube De Goa
Full name Sporting Clube De Goa
Nickname(s) Flaming Oranje
Founded 1999
Ground Nehru Stadium, Goa
Capacity 35,000
Chairman Peter Vaz and Edgar Afonso
Head Coach Clifford Chukwuma
League NFL Premier Division
2004-05 NFL Premier Division 2nd
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Sporting Clube de Goa is a sports club based in the Indian state of Goa. It is renowned for its football team built on the lines of Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal and adopting a similar club crest.

The club Cidade de Goa (Portuguese for City of Goa) was purchased by Sporting's current owners and renamed as Sporting Clube de Goa in 1999.

Sporting made its debut in the 2003-04 season of the Indian Nationall Football League Premier Division, and were on the verge of winning their first league championship but lost out on the last day when Dempo Sports Club pipped them to the title. Their season was marred by a horrific bus accident which ruled out 4 key players for the whole season, while several others were injured. However, led by Nigerian import Dudu Omagbemi, they managed to complete their matches in a very short span of time after being given a few weeks off so that their players could recover, and heroically came second ahead of traditional powerhouses East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Salgaocar and Mahindra United.

[edit] Current Roster

No. Position Player
1 Flag of India GK Felix D'Souza
2 Flag of India DF Parwinder Singh
3 Flag of India DF Mathew Gonsalves
4 Flag of India MF Chinta Chandrashekar Rao
5 Flag of India MF Miorangthem Gouramangi Singh
6 Flag of India DF Philip Gomes
7 Flag of India MF Harmanjot Singh Khabra
8 Flag of India DF Nongmaithem Rajesh Meetei
9 Flag of Nigeria FW Earnest Jeremiah
10 Flag of Nigeria FW MacPherlin Dudu Omagbemi
11 Flag of India FW Nicolau Borges
12 Flag of India FW Simon Borges
14 Flag of India MF Wilton Gomes
15 Flag of India MF Mauricio Freeman Peixoto
16 Flag of India MF Godwin Diego Franco
17 Flag of India MF Loyd Mascarenhas
18 Flag of India MF Denzil Franco
No. Position Player
19 Flag of India FW Nicholas L. Rodrigues
20 Flag of Nigeria MF Bello Rasaq
21 Flag of India MF S Satish Kumar
22 Flag of India MF Joseph Pereira
Flag of India MF Papiah Jagadish Kumar
24 Flag of India DF David Leonel Suresh
25 Flag of India MF Joe Ridrigues
26 Flag of India MF Seby Martins
27 Flag of India MF Steven Fernandes
28 Flag of India FW Jose Carvalho
29 Flag of India DF N Samananda Singh
30 Flag of India GK Luis Xavier Barreto
31 Flag of India GK Gerald D'Mello
32 Flag of India GK Christopher Afonso
33 Flag of India FW Anthony D'Souza
34 Flag of India DF Raymond Marques
23 Flag of Sweden MF Nicholas Nath

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Churchill Brothers SC | Dempo SC | FC Air India | HAL SC | JCT FC | Kingfisher East Bengal | Mahindra United | Mohammedan SC | Mohun Bagan AC | SC Goa

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