USC, USJ-R face off for Cesafi crown

USC, and USJ-R bagged a finals seat after hacking out similar wins in the Cesafi football semifinals yesterday at the CCSC.

USC, defeated UV, 4-2, on penalties after a 1-1 draw.

USJ-R outlasted USP-F, 4-2, also on penalties after a 1-1 draw.

Mark Buglosa got USJ-R, a four time champion, ahead with his 86th minute goal but USP-F leveled the count a minute from regulation.

Comments

Anonymous said…
USJ-R was expected to be in the final round. they have been 4-peat champions until UV dislodged them last year. good news is the performance of USPF, who gave USJ-R a scare by with a 1-1 draw in regulation.

but the real good news is the USC Team who has not been contending lately. they have new and good players in their squad plus a better coaching staff this time.

UV has been weakened by the inability of its veteran players to join the tournament due to academic reasons, with the organizer/TM barring a number of players to play due to eligibility rules re academic/scholastic issues. its good they are strict this time. rules are rules.
2:18 AM
Anonymous said…
i was scanning the sports pages for the schedule of the semis games but didn't noticed any. i really wanted to see the games. the tournament organizers should have put some attention on promoting the matches.
8:11 AM
Anonymous said…
Sun Star, Freeman & Cebu Daily News carried the CESAFI Football with big stories and photos of the Semi-Final games and results. Nice promotion of the tournament. Keep it up.
7:58 PM
Anonymous said…
take a look at the rookies and sophomore players of USC and take a look at those of the other teams. for two years, USC has picked the cream of the crop of cebuano players - namely tirol, soriano, bacolod, atillo, buot, and gacayan. also enrolled in USC are former cebuano awardees of the defunct coke-go-for-goal tournament who may try-out for the team next year. the other teams has been dependent of their 3-5 year players and hasn't really given the younger ones a decent exposure.

UV and USJR has many players in their last year of eligibility. if they cannot recruit well during the off-season then USC may be favorites for 2-3 years if they keep their young players in the squad. Fegidero brings with him the Negros type of football - attacking wings and defensive/attacking midfielders who are adept at overlapping offensively with the strikers. you cannot defensively mark just the strikers because their midfielders will simply do the attacking.

USJR will aim for another title streak. USC is the young and hungry team. Fegidero wants to create an impact as a coach here while Bono wants to prove that he is still numero uno.

here is one amazing trivia - the proudest coach out there would have to be coach ramos. he has 5 players in USC and 5 players in USJR who played for him when they were still playing in the younger age-groups.

by the way, when is the championship match going to be ?
9:19 PM
Anonymous said…
Championship match is on thursday at 1 for the third place match and at 2:30 for the championship match.

By the way the fact that the results of the semifinals game were published (with accompanying huge fotos) is not a result of good promotion. It's because the media simply did their job.

Let me lecture you on the picture vis a vis the story.

Don't gloat on the big pictures, see the "larger picture."

I was at the venue at 3:30, expecting to catch the latter part of the second semifinals match.

The schedule was 1 p.m. for the first game, 3:00 p.m. for the second game. The first game went to extension, so 90 minutes plus 20. Plus the 10 minute half time break, the first game lasted (minus the shootout) a total of 120 minutes.

But, went i got there at 3:30, it was still the first extension. So, 3:30, from 1 p.m. is 150 minutes, does that mean the first game got delayed by 30 minutes?

I have this thing for people taking credit for what we do. Good promotion? heck, the freeman never carried the USJ-R, USP-F result. I was honestly suprised why CDN carried it, knowing they have an earlier deadline, but, judging from how the story was written the CDN guy was probably there, and that is a first.

I left at a quarter to five. I got the result of the second game, a few minutes to eight, AFTER, i have written my first story without the result of the second game, (which makes me all wonder how CDN got their story, we may have a new football convert)

If you want to brag about promotion, don't go brag armed with football stories on the papers, unless you want people to think that Cebu football promotion is all about getting in the paper.

Go brag, when you can fill a stadium full of people for a football match.
1:40 AM
Anonymous said…
blah..blah...blah
1:51 AM
Anonymous said…
Good point mike.
6:13 AM
Anonymous said…
as for me an alumni of the team san jose i still go and support the college team...hope they will continue our glorious years we give to the school... to get the crown back and keep it for many years,like we did in the past few years ago...


i know the ball is round and USC is full of endurance,but if the Jaguars will play the game that is how we play,ball positioning...gladly they will win..

i'm a josenian alumni so of course i will go for them...

contra lang sa ta mike ha.heheheheheeh
9:01 AM
Anonymous said…
good point to explore is how did the other newspapers got their stories without having to be there, even gettings the official results way past the games ended... :)

but anyhow, thanks to the Cebu media who have been very supportive of football. we owe it to you guys.

thanks thanks thanks
1:03 PM
Anonymous said…
media is so supportive and mike did that...

hoep for good things to come for you guys and for the cebufootball as weell..
5:42 PM
Anonymous said…
i read in pinoysoccer about the confidence of joshua fegidero about his young carolininas but maybe they have great advantage but still san jose is playing as a unit and i still go for the jaguars,heheheheh..kontra lang ta permi jun,kamu lang bing bing kauban hehehehhe....

bitaw its part of the game,im a josenian by heart i will support the team where i am part of the 4 peat champ...i am happy and proud to be a josenian...


gud lick do,and im at your side....and to the players as well gud luck jaguars...
9:38 AM
Anonymous said…
Go Webmasters Go! Adto nami noy
1:40 PM
Anonymous said…
nindut jud ni nga duwa ugma mayta good football atuang makita..

good luck to both teams
11:21 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The failed U23 experiment

THE only positive thing that we can take in that loss against Timor Leste was that the U23 squad looked good in blue. And Ebong, too. The Blue-Haired fanatic whose voice we all heard on TV was fantastic. The team? The result? To be perfectly blunt it was a scrappy game from a scrappy team that seemed to treat the SEAG as a vacation, or a chance to gain more Twitter followers. (Yey, I can tweet the team apology first!) Going into the match, almost every fan who paid attention knew that we needed to win. Unfortunately, it seemed the players were operating on a different mindset.
Read more

Mother Nature plays spoilsport

The heavy rains spoiled the debut of defending champions Don Bosco College yesterday, cutting short the match between DBC A(?) and Bright. Hopefully, it will be a sunny Sunday. P.S. It will be interesting to note, how DBC divided its teams for the U12.
Read more

A Pinoy played for Real Madrid? (updated)

Image
HERE'S an interesting photo submitted by Asian Football Confederation women's committee member Cristina Ramos. Its taken at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium and shows a gallery of the great players who played for Real Madrid. And guess where one of them is from? Jaron Genota said the only information he has managed to gather is that the player's name is Teus. I hope to get more information on this guy in the next few months. Ms. Ramos, who was also in the organizing committee of the Fifa U17 and U20 women's world cup, said the picture was part of Real Madrid's exhibit on the universality of their players. From Ms. Ramos, "Mike, the photo of the Filipino player was part of the display entitled "The Universality of our Players" in the Real Madrid museum in Bernabeu. It's funny that they acknowledged him but did not name him. Only those from countries which participated in the World Cup were named."
Read more