IT is so disheartening to see that we Filipinos spend P70 million pesos on a sport we can never be competitive at internationally and neglect those sports where we can be competitive, like baseball and football (soccer) and other team sports.
Personally, Philippine basketball has been too boring to watch because on the one hand, the country dominates regional competitions such as the SEABA [Southeast Asia Basketball Association], while on the other hand, we cannot even qualify for the any of the major world competitions, even by sending professional and Fil-foreign players from the PBA [Philippine Basketball Association].
In addition, politics governs the management of the sport in the country. Even the PBA has become boring to watch because even with all that’s been happening — the coach switchings, the confusing multi-player deals, etc. — the quality of the games played hasn’t improved.
– Marcelo dela Peña, Australia (via e-mail)
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August 11th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Thank you for the acknowledgment Bart…
The Olympic has just started, and we are almost done and bring home nothing… AGAIN!!!…
China, South Korea, USA and other country are spending too much money for sports activities… they wanted to be always as competitive as possible and bring their nation to be known worldwide with this type of events… not just with some negative issues… as our country has known nowadays… as #1 most corrupt country in Asia and maybe in the next few years, when Arroyo still there… #1 in the world…
These countries were scouting and training their athletes at young age… and I guess it’s free and with some allowances… all they need to do is exposed and explore their talents, spent their time to sports which they want and love most… for their family and for their country…
Look at our boxing heroes… perhaps, these heroes are not even gone to colleges or universities to train and join all competitions to be discovered… but still, they excel to their skills and talent and they became our national treasure… they bring success and honor to our country…
These boxing hero’s are just physically fit… as they are not interested to sit in classrooms… and I believed, even our basketball superstar too… some of them did not finished their college course… they just love to play their games or sport and that’s it…
The reality is… only the rich and average family’s could bring and enrolled their children to colleges and university to be trained and discovered… and some at early stages as kids who got enrolled to some sports program and athletic events which requires certain fees…
Let’s give each and everyone a chance to be discovered and bring honor to their family and country at no cost… from less fortunate sports minded people to the World of Sports through physical abilities… to brilliant minded people to the world of Academic through mental abilities…
I believed that there are lots of people out there who want to be discovered… with dreams and visions to bring hope and triumph for their family and to our country… and they needed to be discovered…
August 11th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Bart Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Buboy, you have written an excellent point!
We should spend sports budget to scout a potential sportsman or sportswoman nationwide, even to a remote rural areas…
Hi Bart, Don’t you know we are still under the spell of kami-kami and kumpadre system? Those in power do not observe international standard of excellence. It is their system that prevails, mga kaibigan lamang, yun lang mga kakampi nila, at yung kanilang mga kumpadre are the ones who they will send to anywhere maski na mga kahiya-hiya ang mga ipadadala nila sa abroad. They don’t care about the country’s reputation abroad. If they do, Gloria Arroyo has long been gone from Malacanang.
August 10th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Buboy, you have written an excellent point!
We should spend sports budget to scout a potential sportsman or sportswoman nationwide, even to a remote rural areas…
the problem is not everyone share the idea of getting people from the PROVINCE, i remember long ago, MBA or MEtropolitan Basketball Asssociation was still a promising project, where all players new and old compete with their home town teams. Most of their players were unheard and did not even come close to be in the PBA, when the MBA failed to achieve success, most of their players like adducul and ferriols landed contracts with teams in the PBA…
Im sure that we have a lot of basketball heors waiting to be called for duty…Why not scout them as buboy says, well i say
its all about how much money you can bring to a team francise, and not hoe good you play.
August 10th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Basketball is an addiction. there is no cure unless you become Mr. Alzheimer. It is true that it has been frustrating for the Philippines for not being able to join international competition, or could not even qualify for one. there is a huge problem, and that is BAsketball commercialization! everything revolves around how much the team, players, coaches, owners and other can get get. The seriousness for the love of the game has been substituted with fame and fortune.
Unless basketball returns to our Hearts, we can never play the game like Losayga and others did us proud.
Look at the so called TEAM USA composed of MJ wanabees? how far can they go, i say they will lose and maybe end up for a bronze or silver, but not the GOLD.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I love basketball and I played it… that’s my sport… and I like watching PBA, because I am a fan of Ginebra… especially all Filipino…
But Mr. Dela Pena has a point… maybe it is the right time for our country to focus and develop other sports, than just basketball, which we could bring our country to map of sports or even Olympic records…
Our government should appoint a good leader, with no political ambition, no selfish ideas and especially with sense of humiliation and conscience… but a man of nationalistic and sports minded…
We have been sending a lot of basketball teams abroad, even our own superstars, but they ended up weeping, brings home nothing but only with their own balls…
We should spend sports budget to scout a potential sportsman or sportswoman nationwide, even to a remote rural areas… I’m sure there are ambitious sports people in those places, with out any capacity, financially or connections to any sports body in the government, to assist them explore and exposed their talent…
Schools and university sports tournaments are not enough to discover the hidden talents of a person… there are gifted and capable sports minded out there who can’t afford to stay in colleges… and these people should be scouted and discovered…