Photo above:
The vaunted soccer team from Region 12 that is billeted at
San Carlos City, Pangasinan. They are all system goes for the Palarong Pambansa.
Extreme left, third row, is Coach Rommel
Madis.
Photo below:
The poorly equipped Region 12 soccer team where some of its players' game shoes were wrapped with packaging tape to stop them from disintegrating.
SAN CARLOS CITY, Pangasinan - Despite their penury the
soccer team from Central Mindanao who are billeted here did not stop to excel
as they represent Region 12 for the 2012 Palarong Pambansa (national game) in Pangasinan.
Most of these players come from M’lang town in Cotabato
Province whose number one sports is football that has been played there with
passion since time immemorial.
A public school supervisor Celso “Mal-am” Tingzon said that
whenever basketball and football are simultaneously played there the bulk of
the spectators would troop to the soccer field and cheer for their respective
teams.
What made the players in the elementary and high school
levels of Region 12 - who mostly hailed from M’lang - a cut from their
counterparts in the national level? They come from the marginalized sector of
society.
“They are from the “Unwashed of the Society”. But their
poverty did not stop them with their prowess,” according to Edwin Biag, the
coach of M’lang Pilot Elementary School.
“It did not discourage them to give their best despite they
have to shell out through their parents pockets to buy their soccer shoes in
Koronadal City ,” quipped by Rommel Madis, the coach of Mlang National High
school.
Mr. Bernard Vinluan, the principal of M’lang National High
school, explained that his school fund called Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE)
could not afford to purchase the personal contraptions of the players.
“I could only bankroll the equipments needed for the honing
of my players,’ he stressed.
Madis opined that the economic hardship that haunts his
strikers did not stop them ever since to take a shot and won awards and
plaudits at the national level competition like the Palarong Pambansa.
“Some of my graduates play zealously now with the Army Team
like Edward Gempesaw and the Air Force
Team in the armed forces. Peter Jaugan has struts his stuffs with the Azkals
Team before,” he added.
Biag said that Madis face a dilemma after the former wards
graduated in the primary level.
“During the Palaro there are scouts from the universities in
Manila looking for the best players in the elementary (level). They sweet
talked and persuaded them and their parents for a full scholarship and board and
lodging for the kickers to enroll at universities like Far Eastern University,”
Biag said.
Madis anxiously said his boys would be pitted in the Palaro
with their former classmates in M’lang playing with FEU.
Just like Iloilo Province in Region-6, and Cebu City in
Region 7, FEU represents the National Capital Region in the Palaro. Three
powerhouses that the Ilonggo speaking teams of Biag and Madis have to deal
with.
Earlier, the college team of Mlang called “Ayam (Ilonggo
word for domestic dog like Azkals in Tagalog) under the stewardship of soccer connoisseur
and coach Zenrad “Totit” Gepte, an instructor of Southern Baptist College in
Mlang, chalked up the silver medal after it was humbled by Region 7 (Cebu) with
a tight 3-2 score at the championship tilt of the 2012
Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) National Collegiate Game in Cebu City.
SBC used to produce the best players in Mlang from
elementary, high school, and college levels.
“That was before when we talked about the adroitness and
dexterity of Rey Masuecos, Bimbo Solis, Ganfrey Pechayco, Gabriel Ortigoza,
Arnel Bedua, and Tongak Bandiola,” Madis romantically waxed.
“Pero wala na ina karon (They are already things of the
past),” Madis continued in Ilonggo.
He said presently the calls to excel are under his tutelage and
of Madis, former proud soccer players of SBC, who both teach now at the public
schools (Mortz C. Ortigoza).
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Just hope the alumni of SBC & M'lang National High School could read this. I used to play football in UAAP during my college days and i'm proud to say we have what it takes to play on the national level.Let us keep this legacy of producing best football players from our place. Yes, poverty should not stop us to excel in a sport where we know we can be somebody. (Subert Arsenio)
ReplyDeleteI saw first hand how pathetic kickers from Mlang. They don't have enough gadgets like soccer shoes and soccer balls. My brod Gabriel gave them an initial P10 thousand and some are coming from the pipes.
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