QCU suspends players

By Cheska D. Geli

Wednesday, May 23, 2012
QUEEN City United will have to continue playing in the United Football League Second Division without its key players.
Skipper Jan Michael Flores and Mark Hilay were suspended after they played with mother team Hiroshi FC in the 12th Interclub FC despite orders from the QCU management prohibiting them.

Both Flores and Hilay were players of Hiroshi FC before they were signed by QCU to play in the UFL Cup.
The Queen City management gave the order a week before to avoid conflict of schedule in the tournament but both players still showed up and played for Hiroshi.
The letter said the administration decided to suspend the players for the rest of the season for going against the club’s mandate not to allow UFL players to play in the CAFC National Interclub.
“Dako jud ang impact sa ilang absence but wala mi mabuhat because it was an admin decision,” said QCU head coach Mario Ceniza.
Albert Nankil is expected to take the role as the team’s captain while they are still looking at who can take Hilay’s place at midfield. Ceniza is confident that with his players’ impressive performance in their last match against Diliman, there won’t be any problem. The team defeated Diliman, 4-1.
Both players also accepted the sanction and respected the management’s decision.
“Okay ra kay nakasabot rako sa ilang side. On my part, I cannot miss playing for my mother team. Committed jud ko with Hiroshi, especially since we are defending our title,” said Hilay.
Flores, however, made it clear that should he be made to choose between QCU and Hiroshi, he would pick the latter.
“If papilion ko kay adto ko Hiroshi but kasabot ra pud ko sa ilang side ngano gisuspend mi,” said Flores.
The two are also members of the pioneering team of Hiroshi FC when it started in 2004.
Hiroshi, on the other hand, doesn’t know that there existed a verbal memo between the players and management.
Interclub
Meanwhile, last year’s runner -up Queen City United snatched its needed win to keep its hopes up in the men’s open of the 12th Interclub Football Cup at the University of San Carlos Talamban Field.
They finally stamped their first win against Southwestern University, 4-2, after starting slow in the previous matches.
In its first game, they were defeated by Bracket B leader San Roque Football Club, 1-0, and figured in a draw between Don Bosco United.
Rodney Gandionco powered the team in the early minutes scoring from the corner in the 7th minute. He banked in a long shot outside the penalty area in the 19th minute.
Julius Acre and Baron Lisondra scored the other two goals for Queen City.
In the other men’s open match, Erco FC won its second straight match against Hijos Del Pueblo, 5-1, and is now in second place in Bracket A.
In the Boys 14, Canduman FC routed SJSM/3 Brothers, 6-1, while ANS-Pomeroy edged Los
Amigos, 2-1.
In the Boys 17, Cebu Team silenced DB Razkals, 11-0 while visiting team Ormoc FC crashed USC-NC, 6-0.

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on May 24, 2012.