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15 unusual facts about Vasco Da Gama


Beevan D'Mello

D'Mello attended Deepvihar High School in Vasco da Gama and wanted to follow in the footsteps of his idol Bruno Coutinho.

Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto

The history of Edmundo, as a football player, is strongly intertwined with Vasco da Gama.

GSL-class Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel

The GSL Class Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel is a series of Six ships being built by Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL), Vasco for the Indian Coast Guard.

GSL-class Ferry

GSL class of personnel ferries are series of six service craft built by state owned Goa Shipyard Limited, Vasco for Indian Navy.

GSL-class offshore patrol vessel

Thereafter keel-laying ceremony of the first of the new class offshore patrol vessels was held at Vasco, on 28 September 2012.

Gustavo Borges

On December 20, shortly after the end of the Jose Finkel Trophy, Fernando Scherer, Carlos Jayme, Alexandre Massura and Gustavo Borges, in order, fell the pool at Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama with a time of 3:10.45, which would only be broken in 2000 by the Swedish team.

Montijo Air Base

In 1993, with the arrival of the Portuguese Navy's first Westland Super Lynx Mk.95 for the Vasco da Gama-class frigates, the air base became home to a naval helicopter squadron.

Priyadarshini-class patrol vessel

Priyadarshini-class patrol vessels (also referred to as Jija Bai Mod 1 class) are a series of 8 mid-shore fast patrol boats, built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Kolkata and Goa Shipyard Limited, Vasco da Gama, Goa for Indian Coast Guard between 1991 and 1998.

Sandhayak-class survey ships

The Sandhayak class of survey ships is a series of eight vessels built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata and Goa Shipyard, Ltd., Vasco for the Indian Navy.

Tim Hankinson

In mid-2009, Hankinson took yet another leap and went abroad for the third time to become the "chief coach" of Salgaocar SC in Vasco, Goa, India.

Vasco da Gama Church

Vasco da Gama Church is a church in Kochi in the Kerala state of India, which is named after the Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama.

Vasco da Gama, Goa

Vasco da Gama hosted the relics of Saint John Bosco, albeit temporarily, on 21 August 2011, at the St. Andrew's Church, while the relics were on their world tour.

Vasco S.C.

In 1951, residents from the port town of Vasco da Gama, Goa, including the Portuguese garrison stationed there formed the club called Clube de Desportos Vasco da Gama.

Vikram-class offshore patrol vessel

Vikram-class offshore patrol vessels are series of nine watercraft jointly built by Mazagon Dock Limited Mumbai and Goa Shipyard Limited, Vasco da Gama, Goa for the Indian Coast Guard.

Vishwast-class advanced offshore patrol vessel

Vishwast (meaning: reliable) class of Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessels are series of three ships built by Goa Shipyard Limited, Vasco da Gama, Goa for the Indian Coast Guard.


Agaçaim

Agaçaim, sometimes spelt Agassaim, is a village on the northern banks of the Zuari River in Ilhas, Goa, surrounded by Panjim to the north, Margão to the south, Vasco da Gama to the west and Ponda to the east, thus making it a main connection between North Goa and South Goa via the Zuari Bridge.

Bradley August

Bradley John August (born 24 September 1978 in Cape Town, Western Cape) is a South African football (soccer) who can play as defender, midfielder and striker for Premier Soccer League club Vasco Da Gama and South Africa.

Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino

The four most important Rio de Janeiro Men's football teams (Vasco da Gama, Flamengo, Botafogo and Fluminense) contested in all editions of the competition between 1995 and 2000.

Coast Province

Malindi is where Vasco da Gama picked up his pilot to navigate with the monsoon winds to India; Mambrui appears to be the site where contact occurred with the Chinese during the era of the Yongle Emperor and the expeditions of Zheng He.

Estádio Palestra Itália

One of the 2000 Copa João Havelange (Copa João Havelange was the Campeonato Brasileiro edition of that year) final matches, between São Caetano and Vasco da Gama was played at Palestra Itália.

Fort Kochi

Vasco da Gama was once buried in this church which now falls under the Church of South India and is one of the national monuments.

Lascar

Vasco da Gama, the first European to reach India by sea (in 1498), hired an Indian pilot at Malindi (a coastal settlement in what is now Kenya) to steer the Portuguese ship across the Indian Ocean to the Malabar Coast in southwestern India.

Londrina Esporte Clube

Londrina was founded by a group of sportsmen who, after watching a friendly match between Nacional and Vasco da Gama in Rolândia, decided that they did not want to go to Rolândia to watch football.

Raphael Botti

Botti started his professional football career with Vasco da Gama and had been playing for Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors(2002~06).

Roy Moxham

His third book, Malabar Dreams, looks at the earliest European settlers in India, from the time Vasco da Gama landed on the Malabar Coast, to the time the British established a strong foothold.

Santiago Montoya Muñoz

Santiago Montoya Muñoz (born 15 September 1991 in Medellín) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Brazilian club Vasco da Gama.

Siyabonga Siphika

Siphika played club football for Bush Bucks, Manning Rangers, IFK Norrköping, Maritzburg United and Vasco da Gama; he also earned five caps for the South African national side in 2005.

White flag

Its use may have expanded across continents, e.g. Portuguese chronicler Gaspar Correia (writing in the 1550s), claims that in 1502, an Indian prince, the Zamorin of Calicut, dispatched negotiators bearing a "white cloth tied to a stick", "as a sign of peace", to his enemy Vasco da Gama.