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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Ceniza chosen as one of three to head CFE
By Mike T. Limpag
Sun.Star Correspondent
The good news for Cebu Football just keep on pouring. After the plan of the University of San Carlos to put up a world-class football field and the introduction of two divisions in the Men’s Open comes more good tidings.
Noted youth-coach Mario Ceniza has been selected as one of only three coaches in the country to head the Center for Football Excellence.
Last June Ceniza, together with 40 other coaches joined the CFE coaching course in Bago City.
Selection process
“I thought that those who joined were already selected for the CFE,” Cebu Football Association president Jonathan Maximo said. “But it turned out, only three of them were selected by the Philippine Football Federation and the Asian Football Confederation.”
Maximo received the confirmation last Saturday in a form of a contract between Ceniza, CebuFA, PFF and AFC. The other CFEs will be in Dipolog and Dumaguete.
“Mario Ceniza has proven himself a competent and qualified coach during the CFE coaching course,” Maximo read part of the contract.
As stipulated in the agreement, Ceniza is now in charge of selecting players born in 1991-92 for the CFE -- part of the PFF’s long-term plan to provide national team mainstays tasked to win the 2015 Southeast Asian Games gold.
Recruitment
Among his duties are to recruit the city’s elite Under-14 players for the CFE in time for the Visayas camp later this year and the national camp next year. He is also tasked to train and develop new players.
“I think the PFF and the AFC have seen the potential of youth football in Cebu and Mario also played a big role in us being selected,” Maximo said. “I told them that the Cebu City Government has also been helpful of football and is willing to play abroad as far as Team Cebu City is concerned.”
Maximo plans to endorse the CFE to Cebu City Sports Commission chairman Jonathan Guardo, who earlier promised to help the CFE, and to the Provincial Government since Ceniza’s responsibility also include players from the province.
(August 16, 2005 issue)
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