Leslie Machado Guides Don Bosco Matunga to MSSA U-16 Title

A football coach named Leslie Machado has coached young players at Don Bosco Matunga school for almost thirty years.

His under-16 team just won an important school football championship called the MSSA Division I title.

Coach Machado was very happy and said the boys played really well throughout the whole tournament.

But this season was hard for him and his family because they faced difficult problems in their personal life.

He felt so low that he wanted to stop coaching.

His family, especially his wife, told him not to quit and to keep coaching.

Their support helped him return to the touchline and stay with his players.

Coach Machado says his love for the game keeps him going, and he wants to train young boys from the grassroots level.

He believes Mumbai's football structure needs to focus more on grassroots training.

The whole team dedicated their trophy to their school principal, Fr.

Flovy, and to Fr.

Roy, to honour them.