Here are the different heads for the CebuFa committees:

Richard Montayre for the Coaches Committee; Eleazer Toledo for Tournaments, Manfred Schuwerk for the Referees, Rafi Musni for Youth, Tony Moraza for Legal, Adonis Quitoy for Sports Development (I didn’t know they have one), and surprise, surprise, the lone lady in the board, Rachel Genco gets the Women’s committee.

(Bro. Mari and Ricky Dakay didn’t get any committee?)

Here are a few unsolicited advice for the new heads:

For Richard: To hold AFC, not just PFF, seminars for coaches. To get them to respect simple rules like the deadline.  Coaches love to bawl, question, scream and raise hell just because they want to, it would be nice if they would get to acknowledge deadlines.

For Elying: More tournaments, and the festivals don’t count.

For Manfred: Discipline the referees, impose a merit system,  or for starters, tell referees, not to coach a team, when they are WEARING a referee’s uniform during festivals.

For Rafi Musni: To acknowledge that outstanding youth players don’t necessarily have to belong to certain schools or clubs.

For Rachel Genco (Well, a radical idea, you could have declined the women’s committee, and say, “Are we following the gender division here?)  The secret to Davao’s success in the women’s national tournament was they fielded the team in the second division of their men’s league (yes, this could have also resulted to some of their players developing a certain “Cebu-team-that-must-be-named-trait” of punching their foes), but they were successful. But then again, judging from the lineup of the national team, we could just send our players to all football festivals in Manila, hope they get discovered for a shampoo commercial and viola, an RP team member)

The criticisms for the previous CebuFA admin was directed at one person only, probably because nobody knew who headed what committee.

Now, we know.

Some six months from now, the Cebu City Sports Center will be no more.

With its football field resembling a beach, and its rubber oval getting as “rideable” as Hawaii’s waves, the Cebu City government will embark on a 35-million program–not to upgrade the 14-year-old edifice–but to construct a 20-story parking area right in the heart of the city.

Because of the worsening traffic situation in Cebu City make the already narrow streets too narrow, with cars parking all over the place, the new Cebu City Parking Area is expected to get swamped as parking will be banned all over downtown Cebu.

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Philippine Football Federation president Mari Martinez has stepped down from his post, just less than six months after winning a hotly-contested election against Ed Formoso and will start a new job with FIFA.

Martinez, 53, is expected to announce his formal resignation today.

“It is with deep trepidation that I tender my resignation as the president of this wonderful organization.  The previous four months have been a wonderful ride,” said a prepared statement from Martinez that was to be distributed to the different media outlets today but was leaked to football.cebunetwork.com.

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