CFA eyes two areas for football village

THE CEBU FOOTBALL Association (CFA) is looking into two areas in Cebu for the Philippine Football Federation’s (PFF) goal project (GP) 5, the football village.

CFA president Richard Montayre, however, is withholding the location of these proposed areas since everything is still on the planning stage.

He said the football village is the brainchild of the CFA, which they proposed to PFF as its fifth GP.

According to Montayre, the planned football village would at least cover an area of 15 hectares, wherein it would have one football field of international standards; a stadium with the capacity of 30,000; three regular football fields also of international standard; 12 small fields; a futsal gym; an area for beach football; a large area for football festivals; a parking area; administration building and dormitories.

The budget for the football village would come from the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) while private corporations will also be tapped for the project, said Montayre. The Local Government Units (LGU) will be tapped to support their respective football teams.

The CFA president said everything is still on the planning stage with Dumaguete also planning to propose to have the football village in their area.

Under a new administration, work on the rest of PFF’s goal projects are underway such as the “Football for Peace in Mindanao,” which is the GP 4./CORRESPONDENT MARS G. ALISON