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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Pangilinan must lead us: SBPI stakeholders
By Frank C. Calapre
Sun.Star Correspondent
Manila—A day after the formal launching of the newly created Samahang Basketball ng Pilipinas Inc. (SBPI), stakeholders want sportsman-businessman Manny Pangilinan to head the country’s newest national sports association.
In a survey, all 25 founding trustees of the SBPI chose Pangilinan, the chairman of the three-man panel, tasked to implement the 8-point agreement forged in the presence of top Fiba officials on Aug. 28 in Tokyo, Japan.
Pangilinan, the PLDT and Smart Communications chairman, earlier begged of from heading SBPI because of his hectic schedule as a full-time business executive.
Neutral
The trustees said a neutral person like Pangilinan could inject a and dynamic leadership that could make the two warring factions work together for the good of basketball.
“Mr. Pangilinan was the one who brought them together. So it would be better if he will continue to insure a non-partisan leadership,” said Philippine Basketball League commissioner Chino Trinidad, who was named one of the 25 founding trustees of the new federation.
The SBPI is a unified basketball organization composed of stakeholders from both the 60-year-old Basketball Association of the Philippines and POC-supported Pilipinas Basketball as a condition for the lifting of the suspension the Fiba imposed on the country in July, 2005.
Endorsement
PB president Bernie Atienza, a member of the three-man panel headed by Pangilinan tasked to forge the unity, said he will really personally endorse to the presidency of the SBPI, which is expected to receive the Philippine Olympic Committee’s blessing in its special executive board meeting within the month.
Nic Jorge of the special sector along with former PSC commissioner Tisha Abundo also said that Pangilinan should reconsider his decision, despite his hectic schedule, because it would be the secretary-general or executive director who will run the federation’s day-to-day affairs. |
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