VENGA
R. Vengadasalam (born 2 August 1960), commonly known as Venga, is a Singaporean football official who is the founder and president of Woodlands Lions FC, a youth-developmental football club with its senior team taking part in Singapore Island Wide League and an Ordinary member of the FAS, since the club's inception in 2018.
A veteran in the Singapore football scene, Venga is mostly remembered for his time as an official in the S.League (now known as the Singapore Premier League) between 1996 and 2010, managing Woodlands Wellington between 1996 and 2004, and Tampines Rovers between 2004 and 2010.
When he was the team manager of Gymkhana FC in the National Football League in 2016,
Venga made headlines for attempting to assemble a team to contest in the watershed FAS elections before making a dramatic turn and switching to campaign for the team of incumbents led by Lim Kia Tong during the lead-up to election day, where the elections were eventually won by Lim and his team, which consisted of heavyweights such as Teo Hock Seng and S. Thavaneson. Following the elections, Venga was appointed as the Director of Football of Eunos Crescent FC in 2017. He left the club at the end of the 2017 season and founded Woodlands Lions FC in the subsequent year.
Venga was honoured along with five Singapore Premier League club officials for their contributions to Singapore football during the FAS Awards Night on 7 December 2020 following the conclusion of the 2020 Singapore Premier League season.
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