tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12569043.post3117965332914020585..comments2023-11-02T17:20:52.428+08:00Comments on Cebu Football: Fair Play: Boosting the PNGCebu Footballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687605372320638418noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12569043.post-27082858612645053572011-11-22T20:57:03.754+08:002011-11-22T20:57:03.754+08:00hi mike,
read your article. yes, you are right t...hi mike, <br /><br />read your article. yes, you are right that everyone will complain from top to bottom when we don't do well in an international event. i don't believe though that all the blame should go to the heads of the different sports commissions or even the players selected. to be a international class athlete, it should start at an early age. just look in cebu for instance. what good facilities are offered to the young people? training, equipment and coaches are not readily available. if you look at the countries that are succeeding in the international events you will see that they start at a very young age with a solid support system. indonesia spent $2 million dollars on one sport and hired an international world champion to train the team for 6 months. then they took the team to europe to compete for 6 months in different tournaments to prepare for the seagames. result, 10 gold medals out of the 17 events. people say corruption is the culprit. i'm not saying that it doesn't happen but i do believe for all the athletes that we send to the seagames the budget isn't enough. i heard it was P80,000-100,000.00 per player. sounds like indonesia spent more on one sport than we spent on the entire budget for the seagames. mr. mvp even had to donate P10M! some athletes went on their own resources. so how can our country expect so much? they spend 100's of millions on useless flyovers and then we criticize the performance of the underbudget athletes? look at manny. yes, he's very gifted and very good but look at his resources. he has the best of the best. if only our athletes had half of that, then i believe they would have done much better. also, don't hold a png qualifying tournament 6 months before the seagames to select the athletes. they need at least a year to train. so before we jump to conclusions we need to look at the root of the problem. money... there's a saying that looks to be true in our sports, "you get what you pay for" :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12569043.post-42919549061872343742011-11-22T20:55:32.227+08:002011-11-22T20:55:32.227+08:00hi mike,
read your article. yes, you are right t...hi mike, <br /><br />read your article. yes, you are right that everyone will complain from top to bottom when we don't do well in an international event. i don't believe though that all the blame should go to the heads of the different sports commissions or even the players selected. to be a international class athlete, it should start at an early age. just look in cebu for instance. what good facilities are offered to the young people? training, equipment and coaches are not readily available. if you look at the countries that are succeeding in the international events you will see that they start at a very young age with a solid support system. indonesia spent $2 million dollars on one sport and hired an international world champion to train the team for 6 months. then they took the team to europe to compete for 6 months in different tournaments to prepare for the seagames. result, 10 gold medals out of the 17 events. people say corruption is the culprit. i'm not saying that it doesn't happen but i do believe for all the athletes that we send to the seagames the budget isn't enough. i heard it was P80,000-100,000.00 per player. sounds like indonesia spent more on one sport than we spent on the entire budget for the seagames. mr. mvp even had to donate P10M! some athletes went on their own resources. so how can our country expect so much? they spend 100's of millions on useless flyovers and then we criticize the performance of the underbudget athletes? look at manny. yes, he's very gifted and very good but look at his resources. he has the best of the best. if only our athletes had half of that, then i believe they would have done much better. also, don't hold a png qualifying tournament 6 months before the seagames to select the athletes. they need at least a year to train. so before we jump to conclusions we need to look at the root of the problem. money... there's the saying that looks to be true in our sports "you get what you pay for". :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com