A league and a school
IT SEEMS the football calendar of Filipino fans won’t end with the 23rd Southeast Asian Games as a group is set to launch a series of promotional spiels to culminate with a domestic league next year.
A Manila-based foundation is launching a program that will put up a football school and a national league next year. Sun.Star Cebu learned of the move in a football forum and a source of the foundation agreed to give details provided that no names be used since they are still processing paperwork.
The first phase of the plan includes a promo tour by groups of Filipino and foreign players, which will be hosted by a popular artist around Metro Manila in December to start awareness of the football school and the league.
They will also hire artists to host the tour, which will last two to three months and will showcase the basic and technical skills of players to a broader audience.
Local teams and football associations will also be contacted and the group will conduct on-site inspection to gauge the teams’ level of play, whether they are fit for amateur or semi-pro status.
The league will be launched after the World Cup 2006 when football awareness in basketball-crazy Philippines is at its peak.
“During the league continuous promotion will be made made in newspapers, television, etc. Depending on the success of the league a football academy will be founded in Metro Manila, combining education and football in one school,” the source said.
Meanwhile, the group plans to the call the cup the Paulino Alcantara Cup in honor of the late Barcelona leading goal scorer.
Alcantara was born in Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo, Philippines and is honored in Barcelona for scoring 395 career goals. He is ignored in his own country, however.
A Manila-based foundation is launching a program that will put up a football school and a national league next year. Sun.Star Cebu learned of the move in a football forum and a source of the foundation agreed to give details provided that no names be used since they are still processing paperwork.
The first phase of the plan includes a promo tour by groups of Filipino and foreign players, which will be hosted by a popular artist around Metro Manila in December to start awareness of the football school and the league.
They will also hire artists to host the tour, which will last two to three months and will showcase the basic and technical skills of players to a broader audience.
Local teams and football associations will also be contacted and the group will conduct on-site inspection to gauge the teams’ level of play, whether they are fit for amateur or semi-pro status.
The league will be launched after the World Cup 2006 when football awareness in basketball-crazy Philippines is at its peak.
“During the league continuous promotion will be made made in newspapers, television, etc. Depending on the success of the league a football academy will be founded in Metro Manila, combining education and football in one school,” the source said.
Meanwhile, the group plans to the call the cup the Paulino Alcantara Cup in honor of the late Barcelona leading goal scorer.
Alcantara was born in Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo, Philippines and is honored in Barcelona for scoring 395 career goals. He is ignored in his own country, however.
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