Four companies owned by tycoon Manny V. Pangilinan will be linking up with teams for the National Club Football Championship slated late this year.
Smart Sports head Patrick Gregorio said Meralco, Maynilad, Smart and Cignal TV have signified their intention to sponsor a team each in the tournament.
Smart will be partnering with Kaya FC, the club team of Azkals skipper Aly Borromeo and Anton del Rosario.
Kaya plays in the United Football League, which will have two slots in the national tournament. The top two finishers in the UFL will gain berths to the finals, along with the top two teams from Luzon, Mindanao and Visayas.
Gregorio said they are also discussing possible sponsorship for a team from Negros Occidental with NOFA president Charlie Cojuangco.
For Maynilad, Gregorio said they might sponsor a team based in Alabang or Parañaque.
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I hope they include cities with very good football programs and historical records like Bacolod, Ilo-Ilo and Davao. These cities have produced the best football players in the past.
ReplyDeletefuck yea paranaque!!! dirty south!!!
ReplyDeleteinteresting! i just hope they don't have to attach their company name to club team! i hate that!
ReplyDeletewhy would MVP support the Union FC when in fact its team owner Charlie Cojuangco is a 'millionaire'. MVP should invistigate first. he should know how Cojuangco and his foreign coach treated their players. they have a so-called contract but never paid the players in full. shame on you Charlie and coach Maor! u treated ur players like hostages.
ReplyDeleteInteresting comments here. I think this is where a professional league will make the difference. If this is true about Union then they should settle up before they are allowed to play. In fact why should their players continue if that is the way they are being treated?
ReplyDeleteAlso, about sponsors attaching their names, i agree that its not the way to go. The team itself is the brand not the sponsor. Thats how it is in Europe and the bigger leagues in Japan and Korea.
Union FC players from Bacolod & Sta. Barbara, Iloilo left the team. African players also left the team, some are still w/ the team because they have nowhere to go, they're like hostages. Most of the players are not paid in full. Take the case of J.Orcullo who left after only a couple of games. He scored the team's winning goal agaisnt Global in the UFL Cup group stage but never got a single centavo as a bonus. And never got his salary. The team owner and coach like to think that they're a top caliber team, a professional team ala Spanish league. But they dont know how to treat their players well. Blame it to the 'people' who sold UNION FC to Charlie Cojuangco. A team w/c is rich in tradition but was destroyed by the present team owner. Shame!
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that Union has withdrawn from UFL. I think I read it in the UFL website a while ago but I could not find it anymore. However, I noticed that Union is no longer included in the list of teams (Division 1) in the UFL website. Just the same, it could not finish what it started.
ReplyDeleteUnion's withdrawal from UFL can be read in this link: http://www.footballalliance.ph/league/news.php?nwID=157
ReplyDeleteIt is somewhere in the middle of the UFL news article.
Like the person ahead of me, Union could not finish what it started.
"For Maynilad ... they might sponsor a team based in Alabang or Parañaque." Like Nomads FC? Aren't they already self-sufficient because they're part of Nomads Sports Club?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I just realised that a true national league would be expensive because our country is an archipelago and that would pose a problem in bringing teams to different parts of the country.
This is not an issue in Europe since none of the leagues involve archipelagos. I am curious, though, how Indonesia deals with transpo issues with their teams.
How could we possibly have a professional football league in the country if we don't even have proper football fields/stadiums to play them at??..
ReplyDeleteIt seems that most people keep bringing up "professional league". This national competition that will be started isn't even a league. The PFF is practically just reviving the PFF National Open Chamionship which was last held in 2007. Therefore it's just a cup competition. And in no way will this be professional. Philippine football still has a long long way to go before turning fully pro.
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