Vasudev Salgaocar Vasudev Salgaocar Vasudev M. Salgaocar (1916-1984) was an Indian businessman, and the founder and chairman of the V. M. Salgaocar Group of Companies, active mainly in iron ore mining, but also in coal mining and wind energy. He also founded Salgaocar Football Club in 1956, a professional football club who play in the I-League, are based in Vasco, Goa, and are owned by the V. M. Salgaocar Group of Companies. Since his death, the company has been led by his two sons, Shivanand V. Salgaocar, and Dattaraj V. Salgaocar, joint managing directors. His other son was Anil Vasudev Salgaocar (1940-2016).
Salgaocar F.C. who had been the coach of Pune for the past four seasons and had led them to two consecutive top-5 finishes in the I-League. Salgaocar started the 2013–14 I-League brightly and at one time led the table for six game weeks, but a rough patch of 8 games, which included four straight losses, derailed their campaign and saw them lose the title to Bengaluru FC. Salgaocar finished their campaign at third place, which was a marked improvement over their past two campaign finishes. The colours of Salgaocar are green and white. The home kit very much shows this as the