Dan Lawson, Founder
In November 2005 while holidaying in Goa, Dan Lawson offered his services to the Goan Football association. Coming from a background of football development in England, the GFA asked Dan to use his experience in the taluka of Canacona. The remit was to build a youth football program in the area. The GFAs youth development programs in the rest of Goa had been very successful, however football in Canacona lagged behind its neighbours in the north of goa. The rural nature of the area and the pockets of poverty required a different strategy.
With the hard work of a great team of local coaches and administrators in two years the program developed 5 teams playing in the adult leagues as well as u16 and u14 competitions, and taluka teams for u18,16,14 and 12. On the leaving the country in 2007 Dan Lawson vowed to Nazu Fernandes an outstanding coach who gave up a huge amount of his own time, and the countless young people who gained so much from the activities, that we would do his upmost to sustain the project with funding from Engalnd.
With this funding the project now pays Nazu a monthly salary to run and coach all the football sessions, as well as paying for equipment and travel expenses for all the teams.