Golden boys show golden moves.

HEAD OVER HEELS: A hiroshi player gets close and intimate with the football in their 7-0 win over Leyte last May 11 at the SHS J feild

Sun*Star photo by Allan Cuizon

IT’S not only the top men and lady players who are having fun in the 1st Cebu Inter Club Invitational Tournament at the University of San Carlos-Technological Center and Sacred Heart School-Jesuit field, but also the golden boys in the 38-Above division.


The combined Queen City-Dads United managed to endure the heat and desert-like field to eke out a 2-1 win over Hiroshi St. Vincent at the SHS-J field yesterday.

Meanwhile, a lucky break in the last minute allowed QC to even up with Don Bosco Alumni FC, 1-1, in the Men’s Open.

QC-Dads’s line-up features familiar football figures like Lito and Vincent Ramos and Renato Yap, while Hiroshi has Felimon Ylaya, Bebe Acre, Eddie Buot, Venerando Bagano and Harou Iwanaga.

And as a “sign of respect” to the veterans, organizers have decided to adopt a flying substitution scheme in the division.

Yap got past the defense at the seventh minute to put QC-Dads on top by one.

Later, QC goalkeeper Nimrod Quiñones went for the ball off a corner and missed, allowing an unchecked Bagano to level the count at 1-1 going into the half.

Despite the heat, fatigue and all, the two squads went at it in the second half.
Buot, who coaches the University of the Visayas Senior squad, had a few chances at goal, while a QC player attracted attention after tripping by himself.

Yap again got past Hiroshi ‘keeper Buenaventura Canoy, while Quiñones tapped out a shot in the dying minutes to preserve their win.

Hiroshi will have a chance to get back at QC as the three teams in the division will play a double-round elimination, with the top two colliding in the finals.

In the other game, Kid Nicart put Don Bosco on top at the 59th before QC equalized deep in injury time.

Joshua Fegidro headed Rene Menchavez’s pass back to the penalty area, where a 6-foot-2 Ivan Dimco waited to head the ball past Oscar Lemence for the late goal.

Queen City is now tied with Hiroshi on top with seven points apiece but the latter has the advantage in goal difference with 12 after defeating Leyte, 7-0, in its first game.