Nationa ssports associations that continue to have internal disputes and unliquidated financial assistance will no longer receive help from the Philippine Sports Commission next year.
Philippine Sports Commission Chairman William Ramirez said this as the government sports agency prepares its plans and programs for 2019.
“As a partner that could share responsibilities and share sacrifices, we would like the NSAs to transform, to comply with liquidation within 30 days and resolve disputes,” said Ramirez.
Ramirez said they will cut off support if there is no unity from within an NSA and no liquidation of funds within 30 days.
The PSC chief said this as excitement continues to build up on construction of the Philippine Sports Training Center that will be built in Rosales, Pangasinan.
The facilities inside a 20-hectare land is expected to begin by July next year.
Because of this, the PSC will be able to improve on their talent identification program and inspire the agency to push through with its grassroots programs.
Competitions for the indigenous games and women’s games will have a venue where it can flourish, according to Ramirez.
The agency is now into talks with the province of Tarlac on sharing responsibility in the development of the center that will rise in Rosales, Pangasinan.
The facilities will be built in land located in the border of Pangasinan and Tarlac.
Meanwhile, there will be no reduction in the events that will be played in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, which the Philippines will be hosting.
Cong. Abraham Tolentino, the sports director of the Philippine SEA Games Organizing Committee, said this following the first technical delegates’ meeting that was held yesterday at the Diamond Hotel in Manila.
The number of sports disciplines will stand at 56, with 529 events on tap.
“This is the fifth meeting of the Phisgoc and the final events will still have 56 sports and 321 individual events,” said Tolentino.
Five sports, namely kurash, e-sports, surfing, skateboarding and jujitsu have not yet sought formal inclusion.
Tolentino added that there will also be three demonstration events, including one in esports and two in chess.
The Games will be held in Clark Green City, Subic and Metro Manila.
So far, Category 1 events such as athletics will have 42 gold medals at stake, while aquatics is offering 43.
There will be 42 Category 2 events, which include archery, badminton, baseball/softball, basketball, billiards, 10-pin bowling, boxing and canoe/traditional boat race.
Then, there’s chess, cycling, dance sport, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, hockey, ice hockey, ice skating, judo, karatedo, modern pentathlon, muay, pencak silat, polo, rowing, rugby sevens, sailing/windsurfing and sepak takraw. Also included are skateboarding, shooting, soft tennis, squash, surfing, table tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling and wushu.
In Category 3 are arnis, esports, floorball, jujitsu, kickboxing, kurash, lawn bowls/petanque, netball, obstacle course, sambo/vovinam, underwater hockey and wakeboarding.”‹