KTEC Trading will gun for its third men’s open title of the year in small-sided games as the 1st BRO National Football Festival kicks off tomorrow at the Aboitiz Sports Field in Subangdaku, Mandaue City.
Team owner Frederick “Ktec” Alazas, a former Philippine national team member, said that they never set out to win when they first started joining tournaments.
The team, whose mother club is the Hiroshi Football Club, debuted in the 2nd Sinulog Football Cup held last January wherein it clinched its first title.
The last February, the team immediately bagged its second title of the year via the 9th Thirsty Football Cup.
Alazas said that he thought of forming the team to promote his business of selling automobile spare parts which is also named KTEC Trading.
It was also in answer to some members of the Hiroshi FC’s desire to continue seeing action in small-sided games for the love of game and for the fun of it.
“KTEC Trading is just a small team which sees action in small-sided games. If the tournament is a full football tournament, we go back to our mother club Hiroshi FC,” Alazas said.
Another former Philippine team member seeing action in the team is John Michael Flores, who is also a standout in the Cebu Queen City United FC, the first Cebuano team to have competed in the United Football League. /CORRESPONDENT MARS G. ALISON