Thursday, October 02, 2008 Peñano named match commissioner By Marianne Saberon-Abalayan
DAVAO Football Association (DFA) official David Dwight Peñano was appointed by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to be one of the four match commissioners in the AFC U16 Championship 2008 slated October 4 to 18 at the Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Peñano will join other match commissioners Mohamed Mubarak Al Mohannadi of Qatar, Kemel Tokabaev of Kyrgyzstan and Roger Luo Zhao of the People's Republic of China.
Peñano, in a statement, said: "This will be the final stage of the best under-16 youth teams in the entire Asian region. It will be another venue of learning experience for me since the said age-group is related to my work in DFA."
He is the head coach of the Davao FA U15 Youth, Regional head coach U13 of the DFA Center for Excellence under AFC Aid27 Program. He is also a member of Philippine Football Federation's grassroots and youth committee.
Peñano was also named a member of the AFC Elite Panel of Match Commissioners-Education section during the AFC Project Future Course for Coaching.
Aside from this, he also served as match official during the AFC Cup Group Stage matches in Kedah, Malaysia in March and in Perak, Malaysia in April, AFC Futsal Championships 2008 in Thailand Final Stage in May and in the 5th South Asian Football Federation Championships in Colombo, Sri Lanka in June this year.
