We’ve all been caught in a traffic jam, once or twice a day, and wished why won’t anybody obey the rules of the road? Why can’t red mean stop once in awhile.

We’ve all had our say, and sometimes, we took that just little bit of leeway to gain an inch, deny another motorist. Or sometimes, we cheered while the driver finally decided to beat the red light, or drive the opposite lane (I know I did).

We’ve had our say.

We’ve all been in this situation before. Once or twice a tournament, we curse the imbeciles of our FAs. They should do this, they should do that. Why are they doing that?

We’ve had our say.

Now is the time to “have our act.”

It’s called The Project.

Donate. Give. Act. Do.

Whatever you can.

It’s not simply about money. I don’t have any. You’ve got books, DVDs, used spikes, magazines—anything football.

If you don’t have any of these, don’t fret. If you’re good with computer skills, go check out all the Philippine football videos at youtube, edit it, put it in one DVD. Some kid in a barrio not far away will see that video and promise to himself, “Someday, I will be in that video.”

This is about DOING something.

If you don’t have such skills, fret no more, go tell your friends, spread the news.

Act. Do.

For when the time comes when you get asked what have you done for Philippine football, at least…saying you’ve answered all questions, posts in anything related to Philippine football in all the internet forums won’t be the first thing in your mind.

After a year’s absence, the Aboitiz Cup will be back, or so said the new CebuFA board.

Good news is, the new board will retain the two divisions for the Men’s Open, while there will be new age groups for Girls Football.

Now the question is, with the recent reshuffling of the teams in the Men’s Open, how will they determine which one gets to play in which division?

Also, this year, the CebuFA will finally take on the registration of individuals for its database.

But this P100 per head is sure going to raise a lot of questions (at least I will).

I may be wrong but there could be at least, a thousand players (more if we consider all the individuals involved in football) in Cebu where does the money go?

As to these database. I’m not such a big fan with how the CebuFA handled the data in their first tournament (Yes the Inter Club was officially a Queen City-organized event, but it still WAS a CebuFA event), will this new database be anything different?

Will these be just scraps or pieces of papers, tucked in a folder and left to rot until the next registration phase? Or

will this be a real database, where anyone who wants to question that “data of a certain player or individual” can access?

We’ll see.

And finally. I asked Richard whether the CebuFA will ever consider putting up a website, they said yes. I hope that happens sooner rather than later.

Putting this database on the CebuFA website, which anyone can access, sounds like a swell idea don’t you think?

I’ll jump the gun.

PFF president Mari Martinez has abandoned his plan to change the moniker Azkals, but upon reading the story of how the team got its name, he said, “That guy again!” when he got to the bottom part.

To quote Alain at pinoysoccer.com, “And from what I’ve heard, Martinez is still fuming about the April fools joke.”

Coach Norman won’t be back at the team, tired as he is with all the interference.  The PFF will finally put its own website, (I’m curious what news will be in that site.)  For a change, the Pinoys will travel to England to train with the Fil-Brits and as to the brouhaha about Phil Younghusband’s failed signing with the LA Galaxy, well with David Beckham getting the lion share of the payroll, someone else is bound to get the ant’s share–no, the parasite of the ant’s share–of the payroll. 287 dollars a week to play football?

And oh, the pinoysoccer.com community share the same idea with the PFF president with regards to a certain bald guy, at least, when no one else is listening.  The words used were, “He’s very difficult to deal with.”

Catch all the details at pinoysoccer.com.

A colleague of mine informed me that the company (or was it franchise) involved with Havianias is holding a “free kick” tournament this Saturday at IT park.  They are reportedly planning to bring in a Brazilian keeper, and if you can beat the keeper, you get a reward.

I told my colleague to tell the organizer to put up a wide screen and show the RP team’s final match against Bhutan, which will be aired live this Saturday on Solar Sports.

I just hope they take up and listen to the offer.

Everybody, go to the official home of the Men’s and Women’s national teams: www.philippinefootball.org.  It’s run by Pinoysoccer.com and got loads of features.

Click away.

Thanks to the idiots running Skycable, the biggest Sham on Air no longer has Solar Sports.  Of course, Solar Sports will be airing the three AFC Challenge Cup games.  Anybody here who has solar sports or has any idea where we can catch the games live?

Please?

USJ-R lost in the semifinals of the Prisaa, the boys are in Palawan for the Palaro, which will start a week from now.

Uptwon FC is organizing a two-day festival at UP on April 19 and 20, the Inter Club wants to have a game between Cebu’s best and the RP team, Manfred Schuwerk is meeting with the Cebu referees on Monday.

And from the chat box, European Chamber is holding a festival at CIS.

That’s it for now, ever since I got this muscle strain, which limited my time at the keyboard, typing more than a few words has been tough.

Congratulations to the Cebu City football teams for sweeping the Cviraa titles.  Hope you make it all the way to the national title in Palawan.

FORMER CebuFA president Jonathan Maximo reiterated his wish not to serve in the new board and will be withdrawing from the CebuFA elections on March 29.

Maximo was nominated during the assembly last March 15.

Here’s his e-mail.

This is in connection with the CebuFA nominations last March 15, as published in Sun Star Daily March 16 issue.

I would like to thank the club(s), whoever they may be, who have nominated me for the position of CebuFA Board of Director, but I am respectfully declining the nomination and have no intention to stand in the forthcoming elections.

I was not able to attend the March 15 meeting because I have to attend to my daughter’s important school activity.  She is due to graduate this year.

I have already announced before my intention not to seek re-election as early as July 2007.  Four years at the helm is enough for me.  Its time for others to lead the local football body.

My sincere and deep appreciation for all the support.  Keep in touch.

The Greater Cebu Sports Organizing Committee is planning to send a football team to the International Children’s Games in San Francisco this July.

The target? The Cebu City Under-15 team that won the Philippine Olympic Festival last year.

The catch?  The ICG only features a six-a-side tournament, the whole team can’t go.

Like I said, who gets to go to San Francisco?