CFE trials this Saturday at SVD
CEBU's Center for Football Excellence (CFE) formally opens shop tomorrow with the trials for the promising youngsters at the University of San Carlos SVD field.
The CFE, one of three in the country and headed by noted Cebuano youth coach and former national team mainstay Mario Ceniza, will train an elite group of kids born 1992-93, in a program designed to prepare them for the senior national team pool in the future.
"I have already informed the schools of the trials this Saturday, and we had to squeeze it in because we have a very tight schedule," Ceniza said.
After the trials, the boys will be busy with the Milo Little Olympics next week and the Aboitiz Cup. Other coming tournaments are the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (Cesafi) high school competition and the Cebu City Olympics.
"I hope we will have 40 to 50 participants in the tryouts, so from them we can select the top 20 to 25 players," Ceniza said.
The trials, set at 8-9 a.m., will have the boys doing drills and playing seven-a-side pick-up games to gauge their skill levels.
The list of CFE qualifiers will be submitted to the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) as training starts in the next three weeks.
A Visayas camp is also scheduled later this year, pitting players from the Cebu CFE and Dumaguete CFE, and another batch will be selected from the group to represent the region in the National Training Camp (NTC) early next year.
The participants of the NTC will then represent the country in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Youth Festival, which the Cebu Football Association (CebuFA) is bidding to host in June of next year.
The CFE, one of three in the country and headed by noted Cebuano youth coach and former national team mainstay Mario Ceniza, will train an elite group of kids born 1992-93, in a program designed to prepare them for the senior national team pool in the future.
"I have already informed the schools of the trials this Saturday, and we had to squeeze it in because we have a very tight schedule," Ceniza said.
After the trials, the boys will be busy with the Milo Little Olympics next week and the Aboitiz Cup. Other coming tournaments are the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (Cesafi) high school competition and the Cebu City Olympics.
"I hope we will have 40 to 50 participants in the tryouts, so from them we can select the top 20 to 25 players," Ceniza said.
The trials, set at 8-9 a.m., will have the boys doing drills and playing seven-a-side pick-up games to gauge their skill levels.
The list of CFE qualifiers will be submitted to the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) as training starts in the next three weeks.
A Visayas camp is also scheduled later this year, pitting players from the Cebu CFE and Dumaguete CFE, and another batch will be selected from the group to represent the region in the National Training Camp (NTC) early next year.
The participants of the NTC will then represent the country in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Youth Festival, which the Cebu Football Association (CebuFA) is bidding to host in June of next year.
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