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[caption id="attachment_31604" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Goa stops receiving technical and financial aid from FIFA. Image Source: twitter[/caption] Internet Desk: The condition of Goan football has gone from bad to worse. After three clubs  Salgaocar FC, Dempo SC and Sporting Club de Goa — decided not to participate in the upcoming edition of I-League and the state not having a single representative team in the All India Football Federation (AIFF) for the first time since 1984, FIFA has decided to stop giving financial and technical aid to the Goa Football Association (GFA) from the ongoing year. As if this heartbreaking decision is not enough, it is unlikely that Goa-based players will get to play in the Under-17 World Cup as no player scouting or training programs has been implemented in the state which has won 9 NFL/I League tournaments. This is in complete irony to the fact that the Under-17 players scouted so far have a residential camp in the state. In order to decide a proper planning and developmental model for the players who are going to play in Indian colours at the upcoming U-17 World Cup, FIFA-AIFF wanted to conduct a state developmental plan. As one of the six venues, Goa was supposed to get help for the root level development and financial aid upto $35000 per month from the parent body of World Football. However cold war between the Association members and economic instability led to zero development. A source, on conditions of being anonymous, revealed that while youth development and grassroot programmes, coach education seminars among other activities have been carried out in the other five venues — Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Kochi and Guwahati — Goa has been left in the backward state, without getting proper structural development. The source also informed that the economic instability in GFA. “FIFA needed two officials  Technical Officer and Director, Marketing — from each state to implement the State Development Plan. After conducting screenings and interviews, Peter Fernandez, Director Marketing, and Peter Vales were selected from Goa. FIFA was paying  75000 each to the two candidates per month as salary. GFA, for some strange reason, paid  30000 each per month to the two candidates, on account of using the leftover money on the better development of state level youth. Upon learning upon this instability, FIFA, which made payments from December 2015 to February 2016, stopped the funds on account of economic irregularities complains. AIFF then communicated to GFA to return back the amount which they had deducted from the salaries of the two professionals. They also raised the point in the AIFF EX Co and thereafter letters were written to GFA president Elvis Gomes and innumerable reminders were sent to then GFA General Secretary Jason Monserrate. However, till date, the amount remains outstanding,” the source pointed out, clearly focusing upon the corruption. If the GFA officials were guilty of misappropriation of funds, they were also short on man management skills. They failed to organise a scouting match between the U-17 India team and GFA players in the state like it was done in Guwahati, Kolkata, Mumbai. This made it difficult for scouting officials to spot talent in Goa and to provide some deserving youth talents who may have represented India in the 2017 event.