CIS host Aboitiz

Games today
8 DBYC vs Springdale
9 Hiroshi vs Bright
10 CIS vs SRFC
11 DBC vs CIC-M

15 under
1 pm Hiroshi vs Springdale
3 USPF vs SRFC

THE 2005 Aboitiz Age Group Football Cup kicks off today with six matches in the 12-under and 15-under age group at the Cebu International School(CIS).

Eight teams signed up for the 12-under division, which also serves as the teams' preparation for the Cebu City Olympics, while 10 clubs joined the highly competitive 15-under tourney, which is the Cebu Football Association's selection process for the 2006 Philippine Football Federation Under 17 event.

Morning games today will be in the 12-under while the afternoon matches will be in the 15-under age group.

In the first game, multi-awarded Paref-Springdale takes on their rival and another favorite Don Bosco Youth Center.

"This also serves as a grudge rematch between the two, Springdale lost the Milo title to Don Bosco while they got back at Don Bosco in the Aboitiz Youth festival," CebuFA president Jonathan Maximo said during the Scoop forum at Baseline Restaurant last Thursday.

In the next match, another favorite Hiroshi FC takes on the newcomer in the league Bright Academy while hosts CIS face another newcomer, San Roque Football Club (SRFC) and Don Bosco College (DBC) takes on Cebu Inmaculada Concepcion-Mandaue (CICM).

Bright won the division in the San Roque fiesta last Aug. while the SRFC are the latest generation of footballers to come out of the former hotbed of Cebu which was revived this year.

In the afternoon games, Springdale, which will parade the 2002 Central Visayas Athletic Association elementary champion takes on the Hiroshi FC while the University of Southern Philippines play the SRFC.

Other entries in the U15 division are CIS, DBC, Abellana National School (ANS), CIC-M, FC Inter Cebu, DBYC, SRFC and Blessed John XXIII seminary.

The two tourneys also serves as the practicum test for the participants of the National Referees seminar also held at CIS and supervised by PFF referees committee chair Cyril Dofitas.

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