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Post by juancho on Oct 30, 2012 10:06:58 GMT 8
DBTC to face PH Little Azkals in Pintaflores semis Cebu Daily News
CEBU’S DON Bosco Technology Center (DBTC) earned the right to face the Little Azkals Under 14 in the semifinal round of the 5th Pintaflores National U16 Invitational Football Cup slated today in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental.
DBTC-Cebu ended its final eliminations match against Don Bosco Technical Institute (DBTI)-Victorias in a scoreless draw but managed to advance to the semifinal round after finishing the second best team in bracket A with five points off a 1-2 (win-draw) record.
The Little Azkals, on the other hand, although already assured of a semifinal seat, did not let up and inflicted an 8-0 routing of another team from Cebu—the Abellana National School (ANS).
By not dropping any game, the Little Azkals ended the eliminations with a perfect score of nine points.
The other semifinal match will pit the defending champion San Carlos City selection against Negros Oriental Football Association (NORFA).
San Carlos topped bracket A by booting out San Beda, 2-0. The team finished with seven points after posting a 2-1 win-draw record.
NORFA, on the other hand, advanced to the semifinal round with a 3-1 outsmarting of Iloilo Football Association-Central Philippine University (IFA-CPU).
The win put NORFA in the second spot of bracket B with six points on a 2-1 win-loss record. /CORRESPONDENT MARS G. ALISON
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Post by juancho on Nov 1, 2012 9:53:13 GMT 8
NORFA booters tame Little Azkals in finals By Mars G. Alison Cebu Daily News
The Negros Oriental Football Association (NORFA)-Anthony’s FC avenged its elimination round loss to the Little Azkals Under 14 yesterday by beating the national team via penalty shootout, 4-2, and clinching the title of the 5th Pintaflores National U16 Invitational Football Cup in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental. The Little Azkals installed themselves the title favorites after not dropping a game in the eliminations. However, NORFA put up a good fight and eventually went home triumphant. It took 35 minutes before the first goal was scored in favor of the Little Azkals courtesy of Davao’s Javier Romero-Salas. But NORFA immediately equalized with a goal of its own just a minute later. The score remained at 1-all at halftime. At the 55th minute into the second half, the Little Azkals once again took the lead at 2-1 on Cagayan de Oro’s JB Borlongan’s goal and looked headed for the win when at the 77th minute, NORFA converted a penalty kick to force an extension with the score tied at 2-all. The extension ended in another stalemate sending the match into a penalty shootout where NORFA scored first while Borlongan’s attempt went wide. NORFA’s second goal was answered with a goal from Little Azkals team captain Jed Diamante of Davao as the former led, 2-1. The Little Azkals remained on target with Cebu’s Lawrence “Soysoy” Colina scoring another goal to answer NORFA’s third goal. As NORFA’s fourth attempt found the back of the net, Manila’s Marco Casambre’s attempt was saved by the NORFA goalkeeper pegging the final count. Little Azkals coach Oliver “BingBing” Colina” said that despite losing the title, the team had a good performance overall especially that this is its first Under 16 tournament. He added that he is very satisfied that the boys did not miss a beat in their teamwork despite missing on a two-day pre-tournament camp. According to Colina, the boys had a little problem with their endurance because some of them had played in various tournaments in their respective hometowns. The Little Azkals settled for the 1st runner-up honors while Don Bosco Technology Center (DBTC) Cebu salvaged the 2nd runner-up honors after edging host team—San Carlos City Selection, 2-1. San Beda did not go home empty-handed though as the team from Manila was given the Fair Play award.
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Post by juancho on Nov 1, 2012 10:05:33 GMT 8
NORFA-Anthony's received 3 reinforcement players after the UNIGAMES in Bacolod which also took their game more upbeat but these players didn't play in the elimination games. Bahoyan of 'Teen Azkals' was sent off in the second half as he committed 2 yellow cards due to malicious tackle. Two players were sent off from NORFA during yesterday's game but the 'Little Azkals' cannot find their rhythm and was unable to breakthrough the 1-5-2 formation of Anthony's after the two sent off. It was clearly planned that they want to reach the game into a penalty situation where they won also against San Carlos Selection in the semifinals.
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Post by jedot on Nov 1, 2012 13:08:52 GMT 8
Congratulations NORFA! But Im quite sad that the news report does not mention the names or even just the jersey numbers of the NORFA goal scorers.
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Post by juancho on Nov 7, 2012 16:12:06 GMT 8
It's confirmed. The U14 'Little Azkals' will have their training camp again on December 17-23, 2012 at the same time an International Friendly between Singapore and Australia (or one of them only) in Cagayan de Oro and/or Dumaguete City.
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Post by cjeagle on Nov 22, 2012 19:31:55 GMT 8
I know that the U-14 boys are being groomed to contend for the U-17 World Cup in 2019. The PFF have formed one team with one set of coaches for that age group. In contrast to illustrate the differences in scale that our neighbors are undertaking, I would like the cite this article on the Malaysian program with the same goal of making it to the U-17 World Cup. football.thestar.com.my/?p=31061"Kim Chon: The difference is to start teaching them at a young age. The objective is to allow every child the opportunity to play football with the spirit of ‘Fair Play’ and without any discrimination. We will groom them into elite players before the Youth World Cup in 2019. The programme kicked off in June last year with 14 training centres nationwide.
Each centre is headed by a head coach (full time) who is assisted by six coaches (teachers) plus a goalkeeping coach.We work with kids from ages 7 to 12. We have 20 players in each age category. They train three times a week and play matches during weekends. This is a synchronised programme, whereby all 14 centres have the same kind of training modules. Potentials for the 2019 Project squad will be shortlisted for centralised training. The mechanics of this programme is controlled and supervised by me and three other colleagues, namely Ibrahim Mohamed (assistant) Raja Azlan Shah and Lim Chuan Chin (head of goalkeeper coaches). We conduct regular visits to the centres to provide technical aspects of the game. Starsports: A nationwide football development programme at the grassroots is long overdue in Malaysia. Do we need to step up our grassroots programmes? Kim Chon: What we are doing at present is insufficient. Another 14 new centres will be set up next year and we need support and co-operation from all quarters – the parents, communities, schools, state agencies, corporations and the media – to make Project 2019 a success."
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Post by juancho on Nov 22, 2012 22:52:35 GMT 8
The PFF is late again in preparation for the 2019 Project as CFE's are not yet built and no coaches are being appointed to handle each CFE. The Grassroots Development Officers are the ones training the selected players in their FA's for now.
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Post by juancho on Nov 22, 2012 22:57:49 GMT 8
Our U14 Little Azkals are not even in one school , they will just meet every month or two for a training camp with no PFF budget for each players.
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Post by teddyandtimmysdad on Nov 23, 2012 8:01:49 GMT 8
Well, first of all congrats to the NORFA boys on the win, and the other teams as well including the Little Azkals for achieving honors in this event. It was good to hear that a team from NCR was invited and did well, although I know that we have other teams here at other schools which have done as well or even in some cases much better than San Beda here in the NCR area. Nevertheless the San Beda boys are a tough group and should be proud of their accomplishments in the tough mix there. Considering the grassroots efforts, there are many stories in the region highlighting how far behind we are. You can also look at Thailand, a team who at the NT level we haven't beaten in 40 years. Regrettably, the gap at the grassroots level keeps widening... Kasibulan is a good effort, but frankly this doesn't reach wide enough. As it has evolved, this has become largely a program for DEPED (coaching clinics are only held on weekdays with primarily neophyte gym coaches from schools attending; schoolboy participation primarily on school days so the general population cannot attend?) so again reach is limited with little apparent connection to other initiatives. Hard to see how the grassroots will really progress, this continues in my opinion to be due to a- lack of an encompassing strategy for the grassroots development of the country. Lots of islands of effort, but no apparent connecting strategy to show how we will have sustained progress institutionalized in our football community here. I fail to see how we will progress given our current approach in light of the news from Malaysia above. Maybe we should clone Sandro?
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Post by dingodile5 on Dec 11, 2012 22:28:52 GMT 8
Little Azkals' next major tournament. A new competition Stage set for inaugural AFC U-14 qualifiers Tuesday, 11 December 2012 19:43 Kuala Lumpur: Forty-six nations have known their opponents in the continent's new national competition, AFC U-14 Championship 2014, after the official draw for next year's qualifiers was conducted at AFC House on Tuesday. The 46 teams were divided into four zones (West, Central and South, ASEAN and East) with 12 of the teams coming from West Asia, 13 from Central and South, 11 teams from ASEAN and 10 teams from the East. Since there were 13 teams from the Central and South zone, the AFC has decided to move Bangladesh to the ASEAN zone as it is geographically the nearest to Southeast Asia. The participating teams were drawn into eight groups with the West, Central and South as well as ASEAN regions each having two groups of six teams each, while the East region has two groups of five teams each. The top two teams from each zone, totalling eight teams, will qualify to the AFC U-14 Championship 2014 Finals. Myanmar and China will host the ASEAN and East regions respectively while Oman, Saudi Arabia, Nepal and Iran will be the venue of their respective groups. The West zone's Group A will have its qualifying matches from February 3 to 15, while the qualifying campaign for Group B will take place from February 26 to March 10. The dates for the other regions' qualifiers will be determined later. AFC U-14 Championship 2014 qualifying draw West: Group A: Oman (hosts), Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and UAE. Group B: Saudi Arabia (hosts), Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Palestine and Yemen. Central and South: Group C: Nepal (hosts), Bhutan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Maldives and Afghanistan. Group D: Iran (hosts), Pakistan, India, Turkmenistan, Sri Lanka and Kyrgyzstan. ASEAN: Group E: Myanmar (hosts), Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Timor Leste. Group F: Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Singapore and Cambodia. East: Group G: China (hosts), Northern Mariana Islands, Korea Republic, Chinese Taipei and Guam. Group H: Mongolia, Hong Kong, DPR Korea, Macau and Japan. www.the-afc.com/en/tournaments/men-a-youth/afc-u14-championship/40713-stage-set-for-inaugural-afc-u-14-qualifiers
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Post by teddyandtimmysdad on Dec 12, 2012 0:17:14 GMT 8
cj: "I know that the U-14 boys are being groomed to contend for the U-17 World Cup in 2019" - gee, it is late, but help me out here... in 2012 the current little azkal group of U-14 boys are maybe 13y.o.; in 7 years in 2019, these boys will be 19-20y.o. How will they play in the U-17 age group in 2019? Am I missing something, or just too tired to get it?
...and dingo, won't the current little azkal group of boys be like 15y.o. for the AFC U-14 tournament in 2014?
I can see how the ages might just allow the current group to barely get by in to the U14 AFC championship (I think the age applies from the qualifying stage), but won't the boys be just too old for the U-17 world cup (assuming qualifiers are in 2018)? Is the PFF going to start grooming more boys behind the current group of little azkals?
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Post by juancho on Dec 12, 2012 13:26:57 GMT 8
yes, its puzzling but more of the problem is the uncertainty of these talented 'U14 Little Azkals' as their international friendly this month is thrown out of the window due to huge debt from the airline fares used during their trip to Italy last summer. The parents cannot afford to pay the P80,000 per player airfare asked by the management as it was too much for them. Plus the parents always shoulder the expenses from food, accomodation to fares everytime they have a local training camp anywhere in the Philippines... I find it strange the team management always rely on the purse of the parents and didn't make a move to find any big sponsors just like Dan Palami is doing in the senior Azkals. How can we achieve the 2019 or even this 2014 AFC tournament?
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Post by juancho on Dec 12, 2012 13:30:42 GMT 8
as for now this U14 is the last batch of national team in the boys category that is being trained to compete in the AFC. No U12 or U13 yet or even the U10 players for 2019.
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Post by narko on Dec 12, 2012 13:50:37 GMT 8
juancho, thanks for that insight. The state of things with the U14 and for the lower levels just confirms my fears. It brings me back to my point wherein the issue about replacing Coach Weiss or not is in my opinion not as important as this very issue right now revealed by juancho regarding our U14 team and the absence of any effort to sustain some sort of youth program.
I think this is an area that we should get people to look into. What is the point of spending more resources and getting a much more experienced and better coach for the senior team when there is no system and support for the infrastructure that will ensure the sustainability of the progress being made by our senior team?
If we are looking beyond the Suzuki Cup and aiming to be credibly competitive in World Cup qualifying and the AFC Cup, the investment will not be in this current group of players. It will be in the youth teams. The senior team already has Palami.
Our U14 has to rely on the players' parents? I'm sad to say that this is just going to end up as a "pay to play" set-up, where only those who can afford to compete get the chance.
I hope they get to fix up this situation, and do it soon.
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Post by cjeagle on Dec 12, 2012 16:06:01 GMT 8
narko,
That is just it. The issue of the men's team is different from the youth teams. Palami is responsible for the men's team and has done a good job managing it. If a coaching change is necessary that would require a change outside of the DBF, he would be the one responsible for it. It has nothing to do with the lack of progress with the youth teams.
The youth teams, on the other hand is the responsibility of the PFF. They need to look at what our neighbors are doing and find sponsors to fund the development program, that is separate from what the men's program is doing. Aside from the Kasibulan grassroots program they need to build regional training centers as well as well as a national training center with dorms where the national youth teams can stay and prepare prior to a tournament.
All of this is nothing new. Back in the 70's, Bernard Zgoll who was brought to the Philippines by the San Miguel Corporation and the Sorianos, actually wrote a National Soccer Development Program which included a grassroots component, regional football schools and the training of national youth teams. He was responsible for the development of players like Elmer Bedia, Ramsay Padernilla, Rodolfo Alicante, etc. who made our youth teams very competitive at that time.
One of the recommendations of the Zgoll report was the appointment of a foreign expert, who would be nominated Commissioner and Consultant with the full backing and power to run this program along with 6 fulltime assistants who would be responsible for implementing the program long after the Consultant left. Eventually Zgoll himself served in that role for a short period of time under whose tenure a lot of progress was made. Unfortunately nobody took up the cudgel when Zgoll left amid the chaos that occurred immediately after Marcos was overthrown. The Sorianos no longer called the shots at San Miguel Corporation and their successors were not passionate about the sport of football. All the progress made at that time was lost especially with the general lack of interest that the public had for the sport.
Now that football is finally making a comeback, all they need to do is dust off the Zgoll report and implement it. Why the PFF haven't done this is a mystery to me.
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