Davao: PH booters beat Guam in Vietnam

THE Filipino girl booters ended their campaign in the AFC U14 Festival of Football in Vietnam with a 3-0 thrashing of Guam, a fitting finish to what was described by the coaching staff as an excellent run.

The PH squad was formed only months with the players coming from different regions, including five from Davao, but performed well enough to draw praises in the week-long competition against the best teams in Asia.
The national team also beat Chinese Taipei and Cambodia and held host Vietnam to a draw in the tournament played at the Than Long Sports Center in Ho Chi Minh. The girls lost to superior countries like Japan, China, DPR Korea and South Korea.

PFF unveils 5 foreign-trained Filipina football coaches

Five Filipinas comprised the first batch of overseas-trained coaches for women’s football in the Philippines while a coach coming from the United States is bound to come here either July or August and help them prepare the national women’s football team in future international tournaments.

The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) said the Filipina coaches will be at the forefront of their campaign to develop women’s football in the country. The five coaches are Letecia Bautista, Josephine Loren, Joyce Landagan, Marnelli Dimzon, and Isa Marquez.

“Bautista and Loren already have ‘B Licenses’ from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Bautista recently came from Germany, where she trained for three weeks," said PFF technical director Aris Caslib. The B License is two levels away from the highest class of coaching