Fair Play: When stupid football heads attack
WE ALL know some football fans, sometimes, are an embarrassment to the sport.
Beating up a kid for wearing the other team’s jersey? Done that.
Throwing a coin at the linesman for a wrong call? Ditto.
Charging a ref for a non-call on a penalty? That too.
It’s too bad that a stupid dude decided to show the tennis world how rowdy football fans can be in one of the sports’s grandest stage—the French Open finals between Roger Federer and Robin Soderling.
The guy probably thought he was being funny. But after the Monica Seles incident, things like this aren’t funny.
And Monica Seles was the first thing on the mind of most fans who are old enough to remember the 1993 stabbing.
Clad in red and waving an FC Barcelona flag, he tried to force Federer to wear a red hat. After escaping the guards the first two times, he jumped over the net, lost his balance and was met by a vicious tackle that one reporter said “would have made a rugby union player proud.”
At first, I thought it was that crazy German “football consultant,” but CNN said the guy was a known prankster in Europe.
Well, that prankster got his 15 minutes of fame, and Roland Garros, and other tennis venues, will now be watching out for his ilk.
FESTIVALS. In local soil, some footballers are also quite hard to understand. (Crazy is too strong a word.) Somebody announced in my blog their school’s coming football festival, and as predicted, somebody disses the event, calling it a money-making scheme.
It’s not new. It’s a recurring theme. It’s probably true in some cases and not in others.
Disgruntled footballers see it as a scheme because of the registration fees for the teams, but do organizers of these festivals have the right to charge fees?
They do, they can. Tough luck.
If this was organized in Polomolok, the group would have been hailed as heroes. Since it is in Cebu, they are considered good-for-nothing and money-hungry bastards.
If the fees are too high, then teams can opt not to join. Without the teams, there are no tournaments.
The Cebu Football Association can’t organize a tournament covering every weekend. Heck, without these festivals, teams will be lucky to play in one tournament in a year.
Some footballers in Cebu are a funny bunch. They want to play in all tournaments and want them for free. They want organizers to be world-class, but can’t even follow a simple instruction like “pass the lineup on time.”
One common comment I often hear from players and from visitors are “Cebuano footballers don’t know how lucky they are. They have lots of tournaments and they get a lot of media mileage.”
The first is still true, the second isn’t anymore—but that’s a different story.
PARTNERS CUP DEATH. The Partners Cup for football was supposed to start last May 30, but it has since been moved (indefinitely?) because of lack of interest. Only two teams were available.
Hmmm.
The director of the event is Jonathan Maximo, the former president of the CebuFA, which has since decided to call itself anew as the CFA. The current board has complained that its former president’s event isn’t in their calendar and Maximo didn’t coordinate with them.
I may be out of touch of the football beat, but I can still pretty much read between the lines and it seems the current board is saying, “You won’t bother coordinating with us, we won’t join your event.”
There is no way of sugar-coating this, but the animosity between the current board and the previous president is not good for collegiate football.
And the snub on the Partners Cup isn’t either.
I thought it was about time Cesafi recognized football’s importance by organizing a separate event for the sport.
With this snub, it may turn out the Cesafi was right in ignoring the sport.
Beating up a kid for wearing the other team’s jersey? Done that.
Throwing a coin at the linesman for a wrong call? Ditto.
Charging a ref for a non-call on a penalty? That too.
It’s too bad that a stupid dude decided to show the tennis world how rowdy football fans can be in one of the sports’s grandest stage—the French Open finals between Roger Federer and Robin Soderling.
The guy probably thought he was being funny. But after the Monica Seles incident, things like this aren’t funny.
And Monica Seles was the first thing on the mind of most fans who are old enough to remember the 1993 stabbing.
Clad in red and waving an FC Barcelona flag, he tried to force Federer to wear a red hat. After escaping the guards the first two times, he jumped over the net, lost his balance and was met by a vicious tackle that one reporter said “would have made a rugby union player proud.”
At first, I thought it was that crazy German “football consultant,” but CNN said the guy was a known prankster in Europe.
Well, that prankster got his 15 minutes of fame, and Roland Garros, and other tennis venues, will now be watching out for his ilk.
FESTIVALS. In local soil, some footballers are also quite hard to understand. (Crazy is too strong a word.) Somebody announced in my blog their school’s coming football festival, and as predicted, somebody disses the event, calling it a money-making scheme.
It’s not new. It’s a recurring theme. It’s probably true in some cases and not in others.
Disgruntled footballers see it as a scheme because of the registration fees for the teams, but do organizers of these festivals have the right to charge fees?
They do, they can. Tough luck.
If this was organized in Polomolok, the group would have been hailed as heroes. Since it is in Cebu, they are considered good-for-nothing and money-hungry bastards.
If the fees are too high, then teams can opt not to join. Without the teams, there are no tournaments.
The Cebu Football Association can’t organize a tournament covering every weekend. Heck, without these festivals, teams will be lucky to play in one tournament in a year.
Some footballers in Cebu are a funny bunch. They want to play in all tournaments and want them for free. They want organizers to be world-class, but can’t even follow a simple instruction like “pass the lineup on time.”
One common comment I often hear from players and from visitors are “Cebuano footballers don’t know how lucky they are. They have lots of tournaments and they get a lot of media mileage.”
The first is still true, the second isn’t anymore—but that’s a different story.
PARTNERS CUP DEATH. The Partners Cup for football was supposed to start last May 30, but it has since been moved (indefinitely?) because of lack of interest. Only two teams were available.
Hmmm.
The director of the event is Jonathan Maximo, the former president of the CebuFA, which has since decided to call itself anew as the CFA. The current board has complained that its former president’s event isn’t in their calendar and Maximo didn’t coordinate with them.
I may be out of touch of the football beat, but I can still pretty much read between the lines and it seems the current board is saying, “You won’t bother coordinating with us, we won’t join your event.”
There is no way of sugar-coating this, but the animosity between the current board and the previous president is not good for collegiate football.
And the snub on the Partners Cup isn’t either.
I thought it was about time Cesafi recognized football’s importance by organizing a separate event for the sport.
With this snub, it may turn out the Cesafi was right in ignoring the sport.
Comments
Because of the lack of tournaments here in Cebu we are held bound by this unscrupulous organizers pretending to developers of football when actually is engaging in a money making venture.
as a footballer for now i would always give it the benefit of the doubt, what i see is that more football is being played in cebu even if it's just the festival type there are even months that week after week my team would be playing 7 a-side tourneys. thanks to the money making schemes of the organizers.
And the snub on the Partners Cup isn’t either."
Partners Cup Death, this one is something that i don't quite understand. Why would a well planned CUP with a decent budget be postponed or be affected by CFA's cold treatment? Small time Festivals don't get postponed if CFA won't sanction it. The only logical reason i see fit for now is probably the colleges themselves don't see the mutual advantage of the partners cup reason why only a few inlisted. Or it could be that some teams are not just ready for the competitive demands of the cup yet.
i just hope that this cup will kick-off soon so that we will see another type of cup played here in Cebu.
it’s so easy to say that organizers of festivals are up for the money alone and not football development, well so far nobody had the guts to really scrutinize such group and see if they really did made money out of the festivals.||
The number of participants and sponsors in every festival is enough gauge that this undertaking is making money.
Football development? I dont think so. Football promotion. Can be.
football promotion is when you only advertise the sport without the games being played
RE-Football FESTIVAL
As we all know that football festival is small sided games to be played in a minimal bleow standard field that organizers can modify the rules,time,size of goals and others except for the BALL..
Maximo made a festival, the new CFA did not made 1. Yes, we all know that these festivals are also gaining profits.
DO THE MATH!
If you are an organizer (s) with-out a sponsor then you still can organize a tournament. By collecting entrance fees from every team you can start a tournament. That registration fees can subsidize the tournament BUT,do not expect to be that kinda fun tournament e.g the recent USP Football Festival (to be honest)
Then summarizing all the expenses including the high paid referees with low class performance per day. the organizers in my calculations have a profit of 5-10K... its up to the organizers if he still have any other bills to pay.
a festival with a commercial sponsor is good. the organizers don't have to worry about expenses. plus the registration fees are all in his hands depending on the aggreement between the organizers and the commercial sponsor. BUT, make sure the tournament is worth it for the 1. sponsors 2. Teams who paid their reg fees 3. Teams which they think the tournament is much what they are looking for.
Most of the teams want more minutes = Ok no problem with that
Most Teams want "No entrance Fees" or Low Fees" = It's not your concern. The organizers make a tournament if you find the tournament not worthy then do not join. Put yourselves on the shoes of the organizers, if no teams in their tourneys then their drive for making good festivals will boosts so that they people may like their event. but if nobody will join then their homework is unacceptable and poor.
Ang sa ato lang gud kay naay tournament mag bagol-bol sa entrance fee. Unya mo apil lang diay gihapon...useless!. dili mo ganahan mo apil sa nagpaliga ayaw mo og apil... RELATE yourselves to "PERSONA NON GRATA"
If these poor tournaments will be ignored then no one tend to show their face to make another tournament unless their making a good one next time.
Ana lang gud.. YES! PROFITABLE and festival WHILE promoting the SPORT and DEVELOPING the players... Still BUT, it comes with a price and consequences to your pocket and emotional satisfaction. After all we cannot please everyone.
I urged to all CFA members mostly the tournament organizers.
OK RANA MO BAYAD MIG DAKO SA ENTRANCE FEE BASTA make sure na SULIT ang among gibayad. No need for cash prize. what the teams needs are;
1. Fine Scheduling
2. Good Officiating
3. With Medals for Champion Team & a THROPY
4. Rules & Regulation oriented to all
5. Well-planned tournament so there were no major problems on the day with a minimum GLITCHES to be encountered
So far kanag lang cguro...then to all teams/players and individuals try to do the math so you can understand the organizers also. There is no such thing is FREE!....
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