Cash rich photo contest to spice-up tournament

CASH prizes are at stake for the winners of the 4th Prince Russel Cup football festival which is set on Dec. 9-10 at the Westridge Sports Park in Carmen.

According to organizer Juliene Gerona all amateur and professional photographers are invited to take photos of the tournament and then join the photo contest. Winners will be announced on Dec. 7. They will get 60 per cent of the total money to be collected for the contest registration.

Registration fee is P1,500 per participants. Participants are allowed five entries. Organizers Gerona and Michael Siapno of the Monte Carlo FC will judge the photos according to their “Wow Factor”, and the “Best Inspirational”.

Photographers who want to join can register with Julie Gerona at mobile number 09054642833 or email her at Juliennepopovic@gmail.com.

The bootfest will be 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 Dec. 10.

Registration fee is P800 for 10 Mixed and Boys 12 while for the rest, registration is pegged at P1,000.

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.

The tournament started in 2010 as the First Russel Cup Futsal Festvial at the Macasandig gym. The second was in 2013 at the Pelaez Sports Center. Last year the name Prince was added to remember Prince.

Juliene has vowed to institutionalize this tournament like the Thirsty Cup in Cebu which has been ongoing every February for more than 20 years now. (l.biantan@gmail. com)

IGNORANT football trolls who pretend to know everything about Philippine football abound in the social media.

They disguised themselves as football fans who have every right to bash anyone who they do think do not conform to their opinions about the beautiful game in our country.

Among the victims of their vile bashing are the officials and members of the men’s Philippine National team which is now competing in Chinese Taipei in a four team invitational tournament.

They bash about everything, the team composition, the coaching staff, the team manager and and then they say that they have every right because they are fans. Of course they have every right.

But before bashing, Do they know the real story behind why coach Dooley is not coaching team? Do they know why Davao Aguilas is financing the team? Do they know why some players are in the line-up and while others are not?

There is only one reason for this. Jealousy or Filipino crab mentality.

An FB post which has caught my attention. FEU downs NU, 5-0, in the UAAP high school tournament. The thread goes on that the FEU team downs the NU team which represented the team in the national U19 team which competed abroad last June.

Then the trolls started to bash the NU coach without even knowing the real story. The story is too long to write in a limited space. But if someone is interested you can p.m. me on my FB account.

This post is synonymous to Fake News. I love Fake News, it reveals who are my stupid and ignorant friends in social media.

These ignorant and stupid trolls should play, coach and finance the national team. (l.biantan@ gmail.com)