THE 4th Prince Russel Cup 7-A-Side Football Festival has been reset to an earlier date on December 9 to 10 to give way to the Northern Mindanao Regional Athletic Association (NMRAA) meet.
The two-day competition has been set on December 16 to 17 but tournament organizer Juliene Gerona of the Montecarlo FC decided to move the tournament earlier to allow teams joining the NMRAA meet to join.
The NMRAA meet is scheduled on December 15 to 19.
Westridge Sports Park at Brgy. will still host the event which is for the Mixed 10 (Born 2007), Boys 12 (Born 2005), Boys 14 (Born 2003), Boys 17 (Born 2000), Girls 17 (Born 2000), on Dec. 9 and Ladies Open, Men’s Open, Above 35 Mixed (Born 1982) and 40 Above (Born 1977) on December 10.
Registration fee is P800 for 10 Mixed and Boys 12 while for the rest, registration is pegged at P1,000. Interested teams can register with Gerona at mobile no. 09054642833.
Sponsors of the tournament are Chick’en Bab Grill, Rock and Style, SMART, Yoli Philippines, Coca Cola, Skin Regimen, and Surposa Cowboys.
Prince and Russel are the football playing younger siblings of Juliene Gerona. They both died from illnesses with Russel passing away in 2009 and Prince in 2014.
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