November 20, 2009
TO: ALL FOOTBALL INSTITUTIONS, CLUB, TEAMS, (SCHOOLS)
The past six Thirsty Football Festivals have really made soccer more popular in Cebu. The number of teams participating has kept going higher. Soccer players and fans wait for it with eager expectation as a school year begins. Thanks to the participation and cooperation of the teams. We all made it happen!
The 7th Thirsty Football Festival is set on February 5, 6 and 7, 2010. In its 7th year celebration, we hope to bring more teams from outside Cebu. We aim to enrich the football affair, in terms of quality games and fun, with more new teams this football season. Your football squad is invited to join in this event. Please see attached ground rules for details. Please take note of important dates. For teams from outside Cebu, please communicate with the organizers for special arrangements 032416-1122 loc. 100 or 318-0085 or 0917-6244853 or peach_678@yahoo.com and look for Ms. Peach Seguis of Thirsty.
We anticipate a positive response from your team/s. We will be enjoying again “the beautiful game” in a fiesta filled atmosphere.
For the love of the game!
Neil Montesclaros & Charlie Pages
THIRSTY CUP ORGNIZERS
If you and your team are interested, here are more details about this upcoming Cebu Football tournament.
Tournament Framework:
Entry Requirement:
1. Representative to attend team screening meeting on January 23, 2010 in Mooon Café IT Park at 2:30pm.
2. Submit team registration form on or before January 23, 2010 meeting (bring proof of age on the screening date). Attached picture gallery for non-CFA registered player.
3. Full payment of registration fee on or before January 23, 2010. You may pay through bank transfer:
Account Name: Thirsty Juices and Shakes
Account Number: 4745-0046-74
Bank of Philippine Islands (BPI-Banilad Branch)
4. The team attends the opening day ceremony.
5. The team must be in the venue before the first game of the day (even if their scheduled game is later in the day). The organizer reserves the right to adjust schedules on the tournament day itself as the need arises.
Basic Ground Rules:
Protests
1. Protest on player eligibility shall be entertained after the submission and screening of registration forms/line-ups; however, the burden of proof shall be on the one protesting before organizer will deliberate on it. Only the official representative of the team can make that protest official.
2. A player in question cannot play until he has validated his eligibility.
3. Protest on technicalities shall be considered and deliberated upon by the organizers during the tournament date. Only the coach can verbally make the protest to the organizer.
4. Protest on judgment calls of the officials shall not be entertained.
5. A team that walks out of a game shall be disqualified from the tournament automatically. A game under protest should be finished.
Bracketing
6. Divisions shall be divided into brackets.
7. A division should have a minimum of 4 teams competing in order to be organized.
8. The division shall have only one or two or four brackets depending on the number of team entries in the division.
Mechanics:
9. For divisions with only one bracket, a single round robin for elimination. The top two will qualify for championship.
10. For divisions with more than one bracket, there shall be a single round per bracket in the elimination.
Qualification
11. The teams in a bracket shall be ranked by points (win=3, draw=1, lose=0)
12. If a team gets forfeited, it gets -2 score line, while the team that wins get +2 in the score plus the 3 points win.
13. In case of tie, goal difference, then win over the other, then no. of goals scored, then sudden death shoot-out.
Rules of play
14. Unlimited flying substitution.
15. Playing time divided into halves (but no break)
16. No offside.
17. Players may pass back to their goalkeepers (picked by hand).
18. Teams with lacking players in the field at the start of play when the referee whistles to begin the game shall have forfeited the game.
19. There shall be no throw-ins, just kick-ins for players 17 and up division. Goals can be scored from a kick-in.
20. Goals can be scored straight from a kick-off.
21. Goal-kick-first-bounce must not exceed the half-way line
22. The first bounce coming from a goalie’s throw must not exceed the half-way line.
23. There is no need for a whistle from the referee to execute a corner kick.
24. Players given a red card shall be suspended for two matches.
25. Respect for the tournament, the rules, and the officials are necessary for order and the smooth-running of the games. Any form of non-cooperation, non-compliance, rude behavior, and/or aggression shall be strictly dealt with. The organizers will reserve the right to throw out an individual, a player, a coach, and/or a team if they manifest such behavior.
26. For the rest, FIFA rules shall be applied.
Others
27. If there is any concern with players’ conduct outside the game of play but within the duration of the tournament and within tournament grounds, the concerns must be first addressed to the players’ coach and/or the organizers themselves. Nobody is allowed to directly deal players other than their own coaches and the organizers themselves. Violators of this norm shall be sent-off from the tournament.
28. If there is any concern with coaches’ conduct outside the game of play but within the duration of the tournament and within tournament grounds, the concerns must be first addressed to the immediate head of the coach and/or the organizers themselves. Nobody is allowed to directly deal coaches other than their own head and the organizers themselves. Violators of this norm shall be sent-off from the tournament.
29. If there is any concern with spectators’ conduct outside the game of play but within the duration of the tournament and within tournament grounds, the concerns must be first addressed to the organizers themselves. Nobody is allowed to directly deal spectators other than the organizers themselves. Violators of this norm shall be sent-off from the tournament.
30. Undesirable conduct of spectator/s shall be dealt with immediate expulsion from the tournament grounds. Furthermore, if such spectators are closely associated with particular teams, there shall also be serious repercussions on those particular teams they are closely associated with. The nature of these repercussions will largely depend on establishment of the close association and the nature of the undesirable misconduct of the spectator/s. It may lead to a life-time ban of the teams in question from all succeeding tournaments.
31. If a team does not finish (play) all their games in the tournament, the whole team, the individual players and the coach/s will be banned for the next tournament/s. The games they have played before they abandoned the tournament will be counted as loss with 2-0 score line awarded for the opposing team.
Controversies
32. For any controversy, the organizers will deliberate on the issue with objectivity and fairness. Once all sides are weighed, the decision of the organizers shall be respected, followed and final.
Addendum:
Ground Rules for players 6
1. 5-a-side soccer
2. No goalkeeper
3. kick-ins (instead of throw-ins)
4. Flying substitution
5. A goal can be scored from a kick-in, goal kick, and kick-off.
6. There shall be a penalty area in which fouls committed inside would mean a penalty kick coming from the goal line of the opposite end.
7. Goal kicks are to be taken any place of one meter distance from the goal line.
8. Except of the peculiar rules above, the conventional rules of FIFA shall be applied.
9. 20 meters x 15 meters field
10. 6/6 min
11. 7- 9 players in a team
There you have it. I hope the turnout of this Cebu Football tournament is better than this year. See you guys on the playing field.
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