Cebu Football News: CFA kicks off program in Catmon

The Cebu Football Association, led by president Richard Montayre, travelled all the way to the Northern town last Friday to held a coaches’ and referees’ seminar to help Catmon form its own football club.

Fifteen coaches and three referees joined the two-day seminar.

“They were very enthusiastic and since most of them will be starting from zero, they even wanted us to go back there three times a month to check on how they are doing,” Montayre said.

Eleazer Toledo handled the coaching seminar while Eugene Yclino III took care of the referee’s seminar.

He said the CFA will try to see if they can send a coach regularly to Catmon to help oversee the formation of the club.

The Catmon trip is part of CFA’s Asian Football Confederation Vision Asia project, where they will be touring different municipalities in Cebu to help establish football clubs. The clubs, in turn, will compete in the planned Governor’s Cup this summer.

Montayre said Catmon will be forming three age-group teams—the 10-Under, 12-Under and 14-Under. These categories will be included in the Governor’s Cup.

He said Catmon already has a Cebu football field that is suitable for age group football.

The CFA will next visit Toledo and Balaman in Southern Cebu next month and Liloan or Danao in Northern Cebu next month but there is no definite date yet.

“We still have to communicate with them regarding their available schedule and date,” he said.

Aside from that, the CFA is also set to meet Gov. Gwen Garcia to present their proposed tournament this summer.

“We will try and schedule to meet the governor within the week or next week,” he said.

Aside from the Governor’s Cup, the CFA has two other huge tournaments, the Treadtel Cup and the CFA Cup later this year.

The Treadtel Cup will be a festival type of tournament while the Cebu Football Association Cup will be a big tournament that will feature the Players 10 to Men’s Open.

Meanwhile, Montayre will meet with the other members of the Philippine Football Federation Board of Governors for their first quarterly meeting this Saturday.

“We have a lot to tackle in our agenda. We will discuss some policies and assignments,” said Montayre.

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on January 25, 2011.
Written by Edri K. Aznar.