Fair Play: Missing out on the World Cup
FOR a group in charge of promoting football the PFF, and its local counterpart, are conspicuously absent in the World Cup.
I mean, people I know who don’t normally care about anything football, are watching the World Cup. They’re staying up late, just like the serious fans, watching the games.
They don’t really have any teams to cheer for, they are just after a good game.
Now would have been a good time to get them to cross the right side of the force.
Heck, even the guys in charge of rugby are doing their own bit, holding a World Cup inspired, mixed-division touch rugby.
I wonder, what it is like to play touch rugby with the opposite sex. He scores!!!)
France beat South Africa in that finals, something, I hope won’t happen in South Africa.
One oil company in Manila also staged a World Cup inspired tournament but as to the PFF? Or the CFA?
It’s nada, zilch, nothing.
It’s just like any other year.
The previous admin was criticized for planning to hold a world cup viewing tournament for a fee and I thought if they knew it was wrong, then they’d do it right, right?
During one anti-school rally in college, a few activists used their creativity and doggedness to turn a trickle of protesters into one that was the biggest in Cebu in the last 10 years.
One of the veterans said, after seeing a group of student-activists talking among themselves, “O, ngano naa ra man mo dira, pang recruit na!”
He was right, that rally was a perfect opportunity to recruit new souls to the cause.
The perfect opportunity for football started about a week ago, and unlike that rally, the CFA and the PFF has more than three weeks left to help promote the sport.
The market for football in Cebu is huge, just check out the bars or the people who stay up late. Also, check out the coverage the sport is getting.
How that could be translated into support for local football is the job of the PFF and the CFA.
Football officials—both national and local—always lament the lack of support of the sport gets from fans and the private sector.
Well, this is their chance to reverse that course.
If they fail to act, the next time they’ll sing that same tune, they only have themselves to blame.
Is it necessary to promote the sport in these times?
Yes, because during the lull of the games, you can always expect the new converts to ask about local football.
And while the officials are lamenting the lack of support from the fans, the private and public sector, the fans, too, are lamenting about the lack of action from the officials.
SPAIN’S PAIN. My friend Dr. Joel Pascual and the rest of the fans who are rooting for the Spanish giants had trouble sleeping the other night, after Spain’s disastrous start against Switzerland.
Somehow, after Swiss got the lead, a picture of a smiling Roger Federer kept propping in my head.
Spain still has a chance, that is barring any more disasters against Chile and Honduras.
NBA FINALS. It can’t get any better than this, the Lakers will host the Celtics in the fifth NBA finals Game 7 in the two clubs’ history. The Celtics lead with four Game 7 wins, including in LA in 1969.
Let’s see who wins today.
I mean, people I know who don’t normally care about anything football, are watching the World Cup. They’re staying up late, just like the serious fans, watching the games.
They don’t really have any teams to cheer for, they are just after a good game.
Now would have been a good time to get them to cross the right side of the force.
Heck, even the guys in charge of rugby are doing their own bit, holding a World Cup inspired, mixed-division touch rugby.
I wonder, what it is like to play touch rugby with the opposite sex. He scores!!!)
France beat South Africa in that finals, something, I hope won’t happen in South Africa.
One oil company in Manila also staged a World Cup inspired tournament but as to the PFF? Or the CFA?
It’s nada, zilch, nothing.
It’s just like any other year.
The previous admin was criticized for planning to hold a world cup viewing tournament for a fee and I thought if they knew it was wrong, then they’d do it right, right?
During one anti-school rally in college, a few activists used their creativity and doggedness to turn a trickle of protesters into one that was the biggest in Cebu in the last 10 years.
One of the veterans said, after seeing a group of student-activists talking among themselves, “O, ngano naa ra man mo dira, pang recruit na!”
He was right, that rally was a perfect opportunity to recruit new souls to the cause.
The perfect opportunity for football started about a week ago, and unlike that rally, the CFA and the PFF has more than three weeks left to help promote the sport.
The market for football in Cebu is huge, just check out the bars or the people who stay up late. Also, check out the coverage the sport is getting.
How that could be translated into support for local football is the job of the PFF and the CFA.
Football officials—both national and local—always lament the lack of support of the sport gets from fans and the private sector.
Well, this is their chance to reverse that course.
If they fail to act, the next time they’ll sing that same tune, they only have themselves to blame.
Is it necessary to promote the sport in these times?
Yes, because during the lull of the games, you can always expect the new converts to ask about local football.
And while the officials are lamenting the lack of support from the fans, the private and public sector, the fans, too, are lamenting about the lack of action from the officials.
SPAIN’S PAIN. My friend Dr. Joel Pascual and the rest of the fans who are rooting for the Spanish giants had trouble sleeping the other night, after Spain’s disastrous start against Switzerland.
Somehow, after Swiss got the lead, a picture of a smiling Roger Federer kept propping in my head.
Spain still has a chance, that is barring any more disasters against Chile and Honduras.
NBA FINALS. It can’t get any better than this, the Lakers will host the Celtics in the fifth NBA finals Game 7 in the two clubs’ history. The Celtics lead with four Game 7 wins, including in LA in 1969.
Let’s see who wins today.
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