Dog gone football in The Year of the Dog


JUST eight days into the Year of the Dog, the Cebu Football Association now has two incidents to resolve.

“Pagkalabad sa ulo ani,” Cebu Football Association president Jonathan Maximo said after learning of the Hiroshi-Crazy Horse fight yesterday.

It was Hiroshi’s second fight-marred game in two years, after they also got involved in a fracas against Exas Philippines in the Aboitiz Champions League in February last year.

And just like the first fight, their stint in the Regional Finals of the Philippine Football Federation Men’s Open could be in jeopardy.

Last year before leaving for the regional, they had four players suspended because of the fight and may face a similar punishment before this year’s regional eliminations at the end of this month in Dumaguete City.

“The board will just have to wait for the incident report from the Thirsty Cup and we will deliberate on this,” Maximo said.

If Hiroshi FC gets suspended, the second team ranked team in the Aboitiz League Div. A will represent Cebu. Since the second team is Crazy Horse, which might also get suspended, the No. 3 team, University of San Jose-Recoletos, may get to represent Cebu.

Last Saturday, the manager of Crazy Horse also harassed Neil Montesclaros of Thirsty after he was not allowed to change his line up.

Because of both teams’ actions yesterday, organizers are mulling to ban them from future Thirsty Cup, which will be doubly embarrassing for Hiroshi since they will have the rare tag of being banned form a tournament it dominated.

Sadly, the fight just came a few days after Hiroshi keeper, Ace Mangohig made a pledge about fair play in a the pinoy football forum, Philfootball.info.

“It is my concern that we need to safeguard the integrity of the game by playing fair and playing the way the game should be played. It is important that as players we protect ourselves and the welfare of our fellow players as well as that of the opponents,” Mangohig said in his post.

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