The year was 1983. Goa was playing West Bengal in the Santosh trophy final in Calcutta. There was no live telecast of the match, but across Goa people stayed tuned to their radios listening as the commentators brought the exploits of Brahmanand Shankwalkar, Camilo Gonsalves, Dionisio Trinidade, Mahesh Lotlikar, Vasu dev, Custodio Almeida, Mauricio Afonso, Nicholas Pereira, Ashok Fadte, Herbert San, Bento Andrew, Arnold Rodrigues, and others live to their homes. Goa didn’t win that match. It drew with West Bengal, then as now a giant in Indian football. As per the then existing rules there was a rematch that again ended in a draw and the trophy was then shared and though West Bengal won the right to keep it for the first six months of the year after a toss. But as a good gesture Bengal offered it to Goa for the first half, because Goa had never won the trophy.