City booters advance in Suzuki Cup

By Roderick Osis

Sunday, May 27, 2012
AFTER scoring a draw against National Capital Region (NCR) in their home game, Baguio City Football Association (BCFA) scored a huge victory to enter the second phase of the PFF Suzuki Under 23 National Cup at the Makati pitch recently.
With a 1-0 victory against the home team, Baguio City secured the top spot in the Northern Luzon division, joining Laguna and Masbate for the next phase of the tournament supported by Suzuki in cooperation with the Philippine Football Federation.
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The Baguio booters could have topped the northern Luzon standing but nonetheless settled for a scoreless draw in an almost-bench clearing game the last time out at the BSU pitch.
Posting a 3-1 victory, BCFA has avenged its sorry loss the last time out against Tarlac in the home-and-away tournament format with a 2-3 loss against the central Luzon booters.
Although Baguio and NCR have one loss each and a similar goal difference of seven, the Summer Capital booters had 12 goals in the entire tournament as compared to NCR's eight.
The PFF Suzuki U23 National Cup is dubbed as the local adaptation of the AFF Suzuki Cup, the most celebrated football competition organized by the Asean Football Federation for football-competing national teams in the Southeast Asian region.
The PFF earlier said with the football hype in the country, the tournament aims to search for a stronger Philippine team with the cup serving young aspirants to be the best of what they can be.
In fact, the PFF and Suzuki recently signed a memorandum of agreement for the staging of the national tournament.

Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on May 28, 2012.