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Saturday, September 09, 2006
9 teams see action in Talisay football tourney
By Henry C. Villalva
NINE teams in two separate divisions are seeing action in the ongoing 1st Doc Eric Saratan Football Tournament at the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos in Talisay City campus pitch, which reeled off Friday.
The tournament is organized by the Talisay Football Club headed by Prof. Ruben Clavecillas and is being staged in cooperation with the Talisay City Mayor's Office.
Teams seeing action in the Under-19 category are: Carlos Hilado Memorial State College, Atleta, Inocencio Ferrer School of Fisheries, UNO-R Talisay and Panton Malunsi.
In the open category, the squads entered are: Atleta, Panton Malunsi, Trangka and Doņa Enrica.
Negros Occidental Football Association (Nofa) officials through deputy secretary Warren Concepcion, a former Talisay Football coach himself, lauded the staging of the 1st Doc Eric Saratan Football Tournament "as a positive sign for football activity in various municipalities and cities in the province".
He told Sun.Star Bacolod that the staging of different football events in the province serves to heighten interest in football prior to the staging in Bacolod City of the 2006 Asean Football Cup (formerly the Tiger Cup) scheduled on November 12 to 20 to be hosted by Nofa.
Nofa, headed by Rep. Carlos Cojuangco (4th district, Negros Occidental) is currently staging its 2006 Men's Open Provincial Championship which is scheduled to culminate on Sept. 16 with the finals match to be played at the Panaad Stadium pitch. It will also host the Visayas Regional finals of the Under-19 Adidas Cup competition to be participated in by teams from Cebu, Iloilo, Negros Oriental and the host team representing Nofa which is West Negros College, the team that topped the recently concluded Nofa Provincial U-19 championship.
The top two teams in the regional tournament will advance to the national U-19 finals slated later this year in Zamboanga City.
(September 9, 2006 issue)
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