Zulema Colaco-de Souza sports artificial knees and uses a pacemaker.
That in no way affects the 82-year-old’s zest for life. She attends fitness classes three times a week and feeds on the nostalgia and energy released by the sport of hockey which the Margao-born is in no mood to forget as the highlight of her life.
Ironically, Zulema never played for a Goan team but scorched the turf in Uganda in the 1960s after her family migrated to the African nation from Pune where they settled when she was not quite a teenager.
Her skills honed by the legendary KD Singh ‘Babu’, she delighted fans with her speed and body swerves on the left wing.