PFF gets P40M for 2006

THIS year, the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) will receive from various institutions P38,402,696 million.

However, at the end of the year, PFF will still be in the red by some P500,000 as it will spend more than what it will get.

Just like in the previous year, the PFF will get the bulk of the amount from Fifa, football’s world governing body, while the rest will come from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the Asean Football Federation (AFF).

Fifa will dole out P14,248,000 , which is part of its assistance to developing countries of $1 million spread over four years, while AFC will hand P3,705,210 and AFF will give P6,500,000. The PFF will also get P5,592,200 from local sources.

Meeting

The PFF budget was handed out to the members of the board of governors, who met during their annual meeting in Iloilo City last month.

Cebu Football Association president Jonathan Maximo, who sits in the board, e-mailed a copy of the PFF budget to Sun.Star Cebu.

Of the total amount, some P20,000,000 will be spent for both local and international competitions with P8,284,290 allocated for local tournaments.

“The local tournaments are the PFF regional and national tournaments. It doesn’t involve the local competitions of the different football associations,” Maximo said.

This year, the PFF has already staged the national tournament for the Men’s Open and is set to hold a regionals for the Men’s Under-17, Under-19 and the Women’s Open.

The PFF will also hold a national tournament for the Men’s Under-19, Women’s U-19 and Women’s Open.

There will be no national tournament for the Men’s Under-17 and no regional for the Women’s U-19.

The PFF has also set aside P5,019,700 for administration, P3,635,500 for development courses, P3,623,592 for grassroots development, P1,248,000 for centers, P649,720 for the board of governors meeting and congress and P240,000 for media. It also allocated P3,881,000 for expenses listed only as “others .”

Meanwhile Maximo has proposed to make the PFF congress a working one with only one representative per football association instead of the usual two.

“Its too expensive because they shoulder everything, yet all they do is they just listen to reports. They don’t get to talk about football programs. I suggested to make it into a working one, to make it more productive,” he said.

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