Vasco are joint eighth in 12-team Goa Pro League with 22 points from 20 matches since lockdown on March 20.
MARGAO (Goa): Vasco Sports Club coach Micky Fernandes has turned into a drummer during the lockdown due to Covid-19 pandemic.
The Goa Football Association postponed the Pro-League on March 20 till April 1, and the lockdown has been extended till May 3.
With no football action around, Micky has decided to try his hands on the drums besides the regular exercises.
“I like playing the drums. It’s one of my child hood hobbies. I learn new beats,” said the 37-year-old who also played for Mohun Bagan, Air India, Churchill Brothers, Sporting Clube de Goa and Dempo.
He keeps himself busy at home as uncertainty looms large on the local league resumption.
“Beginning my day with a home exercise plan generally involving some sort of a cardio activity and Pilates along with core strengthening and a full body mat exercise. Workout need not be only in a gym with dumbbells or outdoors you can do at home. Mental health is also important by listening to music,” he added.
After hanging up his boots, Micky took up coaching and earned his AFC B-license this year.
Vasco in relegation zone
But he would like to forget Pro-League season in a hurry as a coach as Vasco, which is run on a shoe-string budget, has been fighting to avoid relegation.
Vasco were in joint eight place in the 12-team league with 22 points from 20 matches when the football activities was stopped.
Former I-League club Sporting Clube de Goa is atop the summit with 44 points from 20 matches while I-League club Churchill Bros were in the third place with 37 points from 17 points while former I-League champions Dempo SC are second (41 points from 21 matches).
Micky joined joined Vasco as a coach-cum-player in 2017. A season earlier he made his coaching debut with First Division side Penha de Franca and guided them to the Pro-League, but the club pulled out on account of financial difficulties.
Micky, a product of Sesa Goa Academy, urged people to follow regulations and stay
at home to prevent the spread of virus.
“Pick up something easy and doable …like a jump rope what we all did as young kids. Mountain climbers, burpee, jumping Jack’s and the list goes on. Yoga meditation or dance to some peppy music,” said Micky, who won the I-league with Dempo SC and was part of Goa’s 2005 Santosh
trophy winning team.
As for the diet he said, “A good well balanced meal…mostly vegetarian fruits grains and nuts as of now due to the bird flu and me self quarantine … Away from the red meat and the formalin fish an
extended lent. Also, Binge watching videos on You Tube, Netflix and surfing the net and texting my friends.”
