In a closely-contested GFA elections held here, Dempo polled 85 votes, while his nearest rival Peter Vaz, who heads Sporting Clube de Goa, got 75. He defeated his competitor by a margin of 10 votes.
Representatives of all the 160 clubs — 87 from South and 73 from North — had turned out for voting, which was a record for the first time.
Dempo, speaking to reporters after being elected as new GFA President, called for improving the instrastructure in Goa to push the game of football to the next level and also appealed for the decentralisation of GFA administration.
He promised to make Goa a model football state in the years to come.
Elves Gomes from South zone and Lavino Rebello from North zone were respectively elected as vice-presidents.
Other zone-wise GFA members are: Salcet: Subert Furtado, Bejimin Silva, Anthony Pango, Benet Dicto Timudo.
North Zone: Babli Mandrekar, Alirio Lobo, Udai Lingudkar and Gajanand Kerkar.
Marmugao: Lorence Gomes, Prakash Naik, Savio Mesaies.
Ilhas zone: Velwin Menezes, Sanjiv Nagvekar and Anjulo Albuquereque.
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