Thursday, September 13, 2007
New football league opens
THE Cebu football family just got bigger with the introduction of the Cebu Football League (CFL) which is set to start this Sunday in Lapu-Lapu City.
The CFL is a separate tournament from the Aboitiz Men’s League, which normally starts later this year, and has attracted 14
teams in its first season.
“This (number of teams) was very surprising so we had to hurry up to prepare the necessary things for the start of the league,” said an e-mail from organizer Manfred Schuwerk, an awardee of the Sportswriters Association of Cebu.
Among the favorites who have joined the fledgling league is inaugural Aboitiz League Champion, Hiroshi, along with Queen City A, Metropolitan, San Roque and Team Cebu City.
The other teams are Team Changking, FCIC Lapu-Lapu, CSCSAT, FCIC-Cbu, San Carlos Seminary, Cebu Doctors Univeristoy College of Nursing and Xantos FC.
In a departure from local practices, the 14 teams will provide linesmen during the game but unlike the other linesmen, they will only decide which side the ball will be on play.
“All other authorities (calls on offsides, fouls) are with the referee alone. The players have to accept that there are errors possible and have to accept all decisions of the referee,” Schuwerk said in his e-mail.
The league will alternate games in the fields of the San Carlos Seminary, Pope John XXIII, San Roque and at the Mactan Airbase. (ML)
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