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JCI Lingayen Bagoong and PSU Football Club conduct

1st Naonal Summer Football Tournament

Lingayen, Pangasinan Not even the extreme and scourging heat of the sun

stopped the young acve leaders of the Junior Chamber Internaonal Lingayen

Bagoong and Pangasinan State University Football Club in conducng the 1st

Naonal Summer Football Tournament held last April 27, 2014 at the Pangasinan

State University -Lingayen Campus, Lingayen, Pangasinan.

The 1-day event of 7-a-side football tournament was parcipated by 38 teams

from dierent towns of Pangasinan, nearby provinces, and other regions as far as

Tugeugarao City, Bataan, Olongapo City, Baguio City, La Union, Laguna, Sanago

City, Tarlac City, Benguet and Leyte which came all the way from the Visayas re-

gion. Pangapisan FC, Sual FC, Bolinao FC, Manaoag FC, Pozurrubio United FA,

Bayambang FC, LNU Dagupan FC are the dierent teams from Pangasinan aside

from the two teams of PSU FC. Teams were divided into three categories, 16-

under, womens and mens open.

Under the strong leadership of the hardworking and incumbent Presi-

dent of the JCI Lingayen Bagoong, JCI Member Rruby Keith Sison and

with the support of the very acve and workaholic Sports Director and

also the Head Coach of the PSU Football Club, JCI Member Julius A.

Sison, along with their supporve and dynamic ocers and members,

the event successfully ended aer the awarding of trophies and cer-

cates.

The same group is looking forward to conduct another football tour-

nament on November 22 and 23, 2014 in the same football eld.

The said event aimed to foster sportsmanship, camaraderie, and at

the same me to build linkage among other people and football en-

thusiasts as a bridge in promong JCIs vision and mission as well as

football as a sport. The organizers of the said event are very opmis-

c that through sports, they can be able to provide development op-

portunies that empower the young people parcularly the athletes

to create posive change and as well as making them as an acve

cizens of their community and to our country as a whole.

The very able Vice Governor of Pangasinan, Hon. Ferdinand Z. Calimlim,

Jr., Execuve Director III of the Provincial Government, Mr. Modesto

Operaa, rered General Mariano Luis Sonny Versoza, PSU Lingayen

Campus Execuve Director, Dr. Nelia C. Resultay, and with Dr. Robert

Pars Sison, PE/NSTP Chairperson and the same me the adviser of the

PSU FC graced the occasion. Hon. Calimlim menoned that the event is a

good start and he is looking forward for a bigger and beer football tour-

nament next year as one of the major events in celebraon of the annual

Pistay Dayat.

The Provincial Government of Pangasinan, the Pangasinan State University, and the Junior Chamber Internaonal Lingayen

Bagoong are very posive in working together for the beerment of the province and to encourage more youth to acvely

parcipate in sports and become an agent of posive change.