Cebu Football

Team Cebu City will debut against Iloilo in the second game of today's PFF Under-19 Regional Championships in Bacolod City.

The first game will pit the host against Dumaguete City.

Here are the members of Team Cebu City.

1. Cortes, Rommel (ANS)
2. Saranillo, Rodel (ANS)
3. Mejaran, Adrianne (ANS)
4. Arriesgado, Joe Mari (ANS)
5. Arranguez, John Paul (UV)
6. Garciano, Garry (UV)
7. Dolino, Howard Dwight (UV)
8. Soriano, Kyle (USC)
9. Sembrano, Roy Joseph (Springdale)
10. Pascual, Jose Paolo (Springdale)
11. Arriola, Benedict Luis (Springdale)
12. Tirol, John Loius (USC)
13. Bacolod, Cliff (USC)
14. Melgo, Jessie Roy (UC)
15. Batad, Jerome (UC)
16. Sharpe, Michael Daniel (CIS)
17. Atillo, Pomposo USC)

Reserve: Canoy, John Miles (Cebu Distance Learning Center)

Head Coach: Francis Ramirez
Asst Coach: Danilo Ramos

First, a disclaimer.

The mere fact that I’m writing about this in my blog, I guess, bars any chance of me writing about this in (well, you know)

Another thing, the player who got the MOA, what is he thinking now, if you were in his place? The biggest tragedy in this issue is not the team who got snubbed, it’s the player who got the award.

For sure, this maybe the first award he gets, but for the questions to linger on his getting the award. How would you feel if you are in his place?

And, I purposely write this, after the Milo awarding, nothing can be done to change the fact, but what can be done, is hopefully, to avoid a similar situation.

What situation?

The MOA controversy.

Football is a team sport, choosing a Most Valuable Player is difficult for it is subjective. I once talked with a football guy (I forgot if he was with the media or a coach) that an MVP award in football is not a good thing, because football is all about team work.

But choosing the Most OUTSTANDING Athlete, on the other hand, is a different thing. The MOA, from my point of view, may not be that valuable. It is a matter of choosing who stands OUT most.

How so? The MOA may score the most goals, he may have made the most number of assists, but is he as valuable as your team leader? The guy who tells you to check that man? Or, after you take a fall, he helps you get up?

The MOA is not the MVP.

So why the big fuss over the MOA.

One, the Don Bosco snub.

Does Don Bosco have the right to expect that the MOA should come from them after they won the title?

No. Anybody can stand out in football.

And that should have been the end of the story. But the problem lies, when DBC asked what the criteria was for choosing the MOA.

That’s when the barnyard dung hit the ceiling.

Had they come up with concrete guidelines, this issue would have been long laid to rest.

A newcomer? The high school awardee wasn’t exactly a newcomer. The rest of the MOAs weren’t newcomers.

Granted, it was agreed by the coaches to only consider newcomers as MOA. Does the DBC bench stink that much?

Correct me if I am wrong, doesn’t DBC have any newcomer in their team? The same question goes to Springdale. Are both teams that good, that they are all veterans?

Here’s my take. They erred, and they made it worse by well, you know what they did.

One last thing, after the elementary finals—to be precise at least 20 minutes as DBC were having their pictorial already at the podium (or lectern, is it)-- I approached them (haven’t you notice it’s a general ‘they’, ‘them’) and asked who the MOA was.

I was told it was still being deliberated.

The next day, a few minutes after the secondary finals, or should I say, a minute and a half, I asked who the MOA was….

P.S.
I guess, there will be no more Olympic Energy drink stories from this opinionated dude.

P.P.S.

I would like to thank RHB for giving me the courage to write about this. I’ve long wanted to write about this, opinions and such, the first day this broke out.

P.P.P.S.

Tomorrow, sobered with coffee, is a different matter. Let’s see how long this stays on the blog.

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"What a nice prediction mike...haha.reporter man ka asa ra dapit taman ang La Nina?...elims? bwahahaha"

"ayo ra unta ug napildi lang sa championship ang gi predict wa pod gani naka semis...hahaha"

Hahay, people just read what they want to read, the humor is lost.

Aside from La Niña winning the Women's Open, I also predicted it will rain at exactly 1:42 p.m.

Idiots.

Anyboy who has pictures of the Aboitiz festival, feel free to contribute.

For the Aboitiz Festival this weekend, according to my RH crystal. Here are the champions.

P6 Pepito
P8 Springdale
P10 Springdale
B12 Don Bosco
B14 Don Bosco (Kung apil tikas, pildi ang DBC sa....)
B17 CIS
Mens Open CIS
36-above:team ni coach Mario
G12: San Roque
G17:CIS
Womens Open: La Niña
Media drinking contest:ako

Another thing, Mu-ulan pag 1:42, ug mu-undang ang ulan pag alas singko impunto. Usa ra kabuok reporter ang mutan-aw, apan kompleto ang photographer sa matag media outlet.

Na-ay parents mag-away. I-announce sa loudspeaker nga ang CCSC non-smoking zone, pero ang numero unong pasaway usa ka reporter.

Ang dako nga digital nga relo sa M. Lhuillier, dili gamitun.

Ang suga, pagkagabii, mapalya.

Q: Who farted? raise your hand


TJ, Carlos: "Pao, na-unsa ka?"
PP: "Wala, mag-sumbagay mi pacquiao"


Q2: "Kinsay gutom"


Pwede pa-tasan goal, mapakong ta


Ako si karate kid

New weight reducing exercise...


TJ: Pao, kuyaw ato kontra, nag sumo wrestling na


Si darna bay, ni-agi sa taas...


Carlos: Ayaw ko ig-a bay, kauban ta


Pwede magpataud ug globelines?

Aguroy.


Pacquiao vs. Morales, midair


Paref:Naay sexy nga naka sleeveless sa luyo.
ANS: aay, bayot man na


Ayaw sa nawong.

Referee: Wala ra na sa amung panahun ni Lapu-Lapu ug Magellan

Goalie: Ka boring sa ako life. Palakawlakaw lang ta ani


I believe I can fly....


Wala nakoy mahuna-huna nga binuang nga caption


Hapit na hurot beer


Kasab-an na ta kumander.

Tanang hulagway sa Milo, gikan ni JP. Taga-Polomolok. Bow

I have reconfigured the comments settings in the blog. All comments have to be approved, by me, before they get published.

Don't worry, its not about cesorship. It's just that, for the past few days, "porn bots" or "porn comments" got to this blog. (How about that, cebu football is now a target of porn spammers)

I tried the "activate code something" in the blog. But when I did that, nobody, not even me, could post a comment in the blog.

So, I had to activate the "moderate comments" in the blog.

I've been trying to clean up this blog, which is why Riscoh is helping me monitor the cbox.

The comments section, on the other hand, is a different thing. That's why I ask you to bear with me, your comments, will eventually get published once I log on to blogger. You may have to wait for five minutes or five hours. But this is the best solution that I could find.

Cheers.

P.S.

Milo fotos will be uploaded tomorrow.

Don Bosco won its second straight Milo crown.

A player from the runner-up team got the MOA.

Springdale won its first championship. They got the MOA.

This is my third post regarding this issue--don't bother checking all previous posts were deleted after a few minutes--so I decided on the barebones approach--just a simple statement of facts. (I am still planning to write about this in the paper.)

I can't express my opinion here, yet, but you can.

FOOTBALL powers Paref-Springdale ended its Milo Little Olympics drought in style yesterday, as the Mario Ceniza mentored squad put on a clinic to beat Abellana National School, 5-0, in the secondary finals.

"We were third placers in the last three years," said Ceniza, whose team is only on its fourth Milo tournament.

Going into the match both teams were expected to slug it out for the crown after hacking out tough wins in the semifinals.

ANS blanked Sacred Heart School-Jesuit, 3-0, while Springdale outlasted Don Bosco College, 1-0.

Yesterday, Springdale's pinpoint passing and a little luck put an early conclusion to the match.

Miles Tiu set the pace of the match as his header off Timothy James Matteo's long throw got staved off.

In the next play, Tiu played the provider after Blui Arriola deflected his corner kick for the first goal of the game.

The lanky Liu again lived off the skills of his teammates after RJ Sembrano's through pass weaved past two ANS defenders to a running Liu for a 2-0 score.

ANS, still hadn't caught on to Springdale's play and suffered yet again in the dying minutes of the first half with Arriola providing the assist for Liu.

A tougher ANS finally showed up in the second half and Paref keeper Paolo Pascual finally got to do some work.

Pascual staved off Rodel Saranillo's free kick and launched an impressive diving save off another shot.

However, Springdale kept on finding the open man and the Tiu-Liu connection again paid dividends as the duo made it 4-0.

Perhaps tired from his assists, Tiu was felled by a vicious tackle that earned for the ANS defender a yellowcard.

Tiu was able to get past the defender but a late tackle, targeted at his shin felled him. He never got back to the match after that.

Miguel and Blui Arriola took the revenge for their fallen comrade with Blui banging in his little brother's free kick for the final count.

Tournament officals have named the elder Arriola as the Most Outstanding Athlete in the secondary division and has also picked Pedro Agustin Jao of runner-up City Central School as MOA in the elementary division.

Don Bosco College took the elementary title with a 5-2 win over City Central School. Miguel Caindec, who scored four goals in DBC's debut, also completed a hat trick in DBC's title-defense.


In the battle for third, James Candido came up with two impressive goals as SHS-J defeated DBC, 2-0.

Candido came up with a lovely twist-and turn shot for SHS-J first goal against the erstwhile defending champion.

Lately, a lot of below the belts comments have been posted in the cbox, childish ones.

I can't monitor the cbox 24 hours a day, and I don't want to remove it just because of some idiots.

I need help in monitoring it, and particularly, deleting inappropriate posts.

Any volunteers?

Once when I was in fourth year high school, and was watching a football match.

It was the Coke-Go-For-Goal provincial finals, our team then hasn't lost in a finals in nine years. I don't remember the result of the game, though I think we won. What I couldn't forget is what happened late in the second half.

Our striker beat the offside trap perfectly, too bad, the ball was just about midway between him and the goalkeeper.

He went in.

The keeper went in.

Feets clashed. The result?

The ugliest injury I've ever saw. The striker lay down, screaming.

The teachers panicked. The coach couldn't do a thing, the Coke coordinator wasn't there. There was no medics.

So who took charge.

We were the fourth years, just a year out of playing in the Coke go for goal. We ran to the striker, and saw the clean break. To describe it here would spoil breakfast and lunch or dinner.

We couldn't lift him up nor move him. So, somebody ran to the faculty room, got a folding bed and we used it to carry him to a jeepney, that a teammate flagged down, so we could rush him to a hospital.

It was horrible. He never got to play football again.

My take on this thing. If the CebuFa is scrimping on funds, then scrimp on everything except the medics.

I once ask (I forgot who) in a recent tournament (Not sure if it was the Aboitiz U18) why there were no medics.

"No budget"

Nobody can ever accuse me of being anti-CebuFa.

But in case of the missing medics, the CebuFa erred and they should be grateful no untoward has happened.

Yet.

I'm tired. Blogspot is acting up again and taking more than usual to upload the pics.

By the way, the Cesafi season started and USJ-R and USC won their respective games over USP and UC.

Cesafi also barred 18 players this season.

On the other hand, MLSDF, the same program that produced the Carmen boys, launched their football programs in Banawa Elementary School and Camp Lapu-Lapu National High School.

I don't think the USC-SRFC game in the Aboitiz U18 will push through.

And last but not the least, no updates on the Mizuno cheating.

Ciao.

People who make inappropriate comment, like what Bacolod posted in the chat box, deserves no respect.

Seriously, let's save the trash-talking to basketball.

If you want to trash talk, do it to my face, capisce? Paging Bacolod.

Idol.


I am Roberto Carlos.


Yehey! Champion mi!....tani sugtan ko ni kumander mag inum unya...


Kokak.

Coach Francis shows how to stop a free kick.



Is that you Nicolas Cage?



Left or right, pili lang.



This is how you dive



Cge lang, kampi man nako ang bar

by Ang Palahubog (AP) with reports from Philippine Nose Agency (PNA)

IN a move nothing short of stunning, the Philippine Football Federation has dissolved the 28 regular and probationary Football Associations all over the country.

"You are not functional," read the PFF memo sent to all FAs.

Expectedly, all the FA presidents expressed surprise with the sudden move, "I cannot say anything right now."

One vocal PFF critic, when asked by AP regarding the move said, "HE DID WHAT...*&^@*^#!!!!!!"

However, when called, PFF president Johnny Romualdez, identified as JR in the memo, denied issuing such.

"We have just learned of the move and we have known who the culprits are," he said.

Romualdez explained that the two clerks they have just hired had a lover's spat, and as a result, one decided to issue an unauthorized memo.

Both men have since been fired, for issuing the memo, and for one other reason.

"We caught them en flagrante in the PFF boardroom, just as we were investigating the source of this memo," a source told PNA.

THE Hiroshi Football Club showed resiliency as it outlasted a gritty University of San Carlos to eke out a 2-1 win in the Aboitiz 18-Under Cup at the Cebu City Sports Center yesterday.

The win gave Hiroshi the title, the right to represent Cebu in the regional eliminations later this month and also threw out all "what if" scenarios for the Cebu Football Association. A draw would have put Hiroshi tied with the University of Cebu.

UC, which defeated Don Bosco Boys Home 4-1, finished second with eight points, while USC settled for third. USC still has a game to play, against San Roque FC, but it is already moot as it can't improve on its third place finish.

Hiroshi started the game with its defense stretched as USC's Michael Sharpe and Kyle Soriano pressed the attack but managed to get ahead, 1-0, in the 23rd with Rodel Saranillo's perfectly struck free kick.

Saranillo, hitting just outside the box, curved the ball to the top right corner, leaving USC keeper Patrick Uno no chance to stop the ball.

Their celebration was cut short after Sharpe deflected Louie Tirol's free kick past Paolo Pascual three minutes later to even the count, keeping USC's title shot alive.

The match took an ugly turn in the second half with Hiroshi's Jerson Omnos earning two yellow cards in a two-minute span.

Despite playing with only 10-man, Hiroshi matched USC stride for stride before RJ Sembrano banged in the go-ahead goal in the 69th minute, sending his team to the Philippine Football Federation regionals later this month.

Though they may have showed resiliency, Hiroshi also showed an aspect of its game that may needs improvement, playing fair. In football, the referee can not stop the game with the ball still in play, thus players intentionally sends the ball out so play can be stopped. In the next play, the team who has ball possession normally throws the ball back to the other team, hence the term, fair play.

That wasn't the case yesterday and Hiroshi almost scored as USC, expecting the ball to be returned to them, didn't bother to mark the players, giving a Hiroshi striker open space to attack. Fortunately, he was stopped.

It took this blog almost a year to hit the 10,000-hit barrier, but less than six months (I think) to surpass 20,000.

Congratulations to us.

Go grab a beer.

If ever the CebuFA plans pushes through (And if the other FAs have the money for it) we will be seeing the best of the country compete in the P12 division of the festival)

PFF's Vince Santos and the national coach are coming to scout players, I know Vince and he's a dedicated guy. Let's just say that he got a better offer abroad (a football related job at that) but he decided to stick around to oversee the CFE program.

Now, if the best P12 teams in the country drops by. How will the Cebu teams fare? Its doubtful if an elite Cebu team in the division will also be formed.

With the fierce rivarly going on, and with the coach having to handle their school teams in the Cup, and to shift to handling a Cebu team, would be tough also.

I'm hoping that the rest of the FAs will send their elite teams for the festival. It's just a festival, but, the P12 division is very important, not only to cebu football, but to RP football.

After all, the battlecry is to win the Seag gold in 2015. And the burden, my friends, is on the shoulders of our 12-year-olds.

Forget the soccermoms, dads, and all.

Let's talk about the players.