Palaro update

The high school team has just defeated Davao, 2-1, to advance to the finals against West Visayas.  Barring any hitches from the officials, this could be an interesting final.

The elementary squad will play NCR again in the final, a team they beat 4-1, in their early meeting. Cebu City got to the final after the Pampanga squad failed to show up.

Comments

kikster said…
Congratulations Central Visayas (Cebu City-Don Bosco) Elementary Team and Coach J. Bono for winning the Gold in the Palaro twice in a row already. Along with the good showing of the Secondary Team, Cebu City is certainly becoming a new football power in the country.
2:48 PM
ronaldo said…
it's actually 2 championships in 3 years for the elementary Don Bosco-led teams. DBTC-CVIRAA won in 2006 at Naga City, finished silver in 2007 gold again at Palawan 2008.

counting the 2007 POF U15 title, that's a grand slam of national titles for DBTC-led teams. back to back to back. we can now say that we are fast catching up with Iloilo.

and the good thing is - the players of these champion squads still has 4-5 years left to play in the age-group competitions.

BTW, many in the audience agreed that the officiating during the secondary finals was biased for WV. anyway, lets just hope to finish one rung higher next year.
4:46 PM
kikster said…
youre right ronaldo, Naga was 2 years ago na pala.
7:54 PM
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