Fredy Mascarenhas

Fredy Mascarenhas (born 11 April 1981) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a striker, for X-Roads Warriors in the Bermudian Premier Division.

Youth and early career Fredy Mascarenhas was born on 11 April 1981 in Cuncolim, Goa, India. He started his liking of the game football at a young age after seeing his neighbour and good friend Siano Fernandes who played for Dempo. At the age of 13, he joined his local school football team at Our Lady of Health High School in which he also played in the Subroto Mukerjee Cup. helping them get promoted to the Goa Professional League. While at Salgaocar, Mascarenhas suffered an accident which kept him out of football for a year. He had missed some opportunities to represent Goa in junior age-level tournaments for personal reasons.

Career

Salgaocar After falling to injury while at Colva, Fredy made his return to football by signing for National Football League side Salgaocar where he played for 3 years, after representing their under-19 for 2 years.

Churchill Brothers Fredy then joined Churchill Brothers S.C. of the National Football League. Fredy retired from football in July 2009 at the age of 28 and moved to Bermuda to take a non-footballing job.

Robin Hood

Three years after retiring from football, Fredy made his return by signing for Robin Hood FC of the Bermudian Premier Division. Fredy then made his debut for Robin Hood two days later on 19 March 2012 against PHC Zebras in which he earned huge praise.

X-Roads Warriors In 2015, he moved to another Bermudian Premier League side X-Roads Warriors.

International Fredy was part of the India national football team during their tour to Canada under coach Bob Houghton and was donning Jersey no. 18. He was also part of the Indian team for their World cup 2010 qualifying matches against Saudi Arabia (home and away). He debuted for the national team on 16 August 2006, in a 3–0 loss to Saudi Arabia.

He later attended National camp under Ex-India national team coach Stephen Constantine.

Honours Salgaocar Goa Professional League: 2003, 2004 Goa Santosh Trophy: 2008–09