BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Monday, June 8, 2009

With Calinog FC folks


After Santa Barbara, we headed over to Calinog, one of the towns here in Iloilo. This is a pic of me with teachers of Calinog elementary school and its football club (the ones in black). Their dedication to the game is incredible and most commendable. They coach voluntarily and their goal is to help kids get to college through football. Some of the kids here have been snapped up by UP, UST, and FEU.

Calinog's perseverance with the game has turned them into a local power and with more training and seasoning, they will be challenging Santa Barbara and Barotac Nuevo for local and regional football supremacy.

They don't have too much money and the teachers and parents just pass around the hat (same in the other areas). For kababayans who are abroad, they ask for balls, gloves, and kits.

Hopefully, this documentary I am working on will help provide sponsors for the people here.

It was nice meeting you all and I so love the black football jersey.

2 comments:

  1. GO CALINOG!!!!...BEST MIDFIELDER C FELONGCO SA UAAP!!!!

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  2. CONGRATZ CALINOG FC!!!! BEST MIDFIELDER C FELONGCO!!!

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