Failure not an option for NSAs

2:28 am | Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

NATIONAL sports associations, specially those in the priority cluster, have little room for failure now that the government has answered the call for more financial backing.

Commissioner Buddy Andrada said these NSAs, along with the 145 elite athletes from various sports, should do well in the Southeast Asian Games, continental-level meets and Olympic qualifiers for 2016 Rio De Janeiro.

On his last day as acting Philippine Sports Commission chair, Andrada said the government’s move should increase the number of gold medals in the SEA Games next year in Naypidaw, Myanmar and 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.

The PSC has been getting between P40 million to P50 million a month from its remittances from the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) or at least P500 million every year since the present administration took over.

“They (NSAs) never had it so good as far budget is concerned,” said Andrada, a former tennis chief.

This year alone, Andrada said P400 million have been earmarked for the programs of the 55 NSAs with the 10 focus sports—boxing, taekwondo, athletics, swimming, wushu, archery, wrestling, bowling, weightlifting and billiards—getting a lion’s share of the pie.

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Tags: National Sports Associations , Southeast Asian Games , Sports

http://profile.yahoo.com/ZZDCLVCR4EDOP4CDAHA6LTQGLQ George L

Since our top sports officials are all inutile in their jobs and just pocket the bulk of the budget for the programs to train athletes, I think we shud stop joining any world sports events because that makes our country poorer because of these corrupt people. All they can aspire for is to improve the SEA Games medal haul? You can’t be world-class with only SEA Games aspiration. Look what happen to SEA Games record holders in London Games. None of the Southeast Asian countries got gold, Indonesia got 2 silvers and one bronze, is the highest-ranked Asean-member country in the London 2012 Games. Only its silver-medal winner, a boxer, has good SEA Games record.
http://profile.yahoo.com/KAAEZZZL7OMMZ5K4KCFETADLSM jerome

Quoting from the article “The PSC has been getting between P40 million to P50 million a month from its remittances from the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) or at least P500 million every year since the present administration took over.” The question is “San napupunta ang pera at ang baba ng performance ng mga athlete?” This is a huge sum of money…Calling on those people on COA..
clavenilo

Yes tennis, but need to change the mentality of our young aspiring kids especially the boys. Majority if not all if they like sports they all want to play basketball. So those kids who eventually failed to make it to varsity teams even in high school who knows they could have been a good tennis player,swimmer, soccer or track & field . We are crazing of the wrong sport .
http://twitter.com/Gravekeeper Vin

what about tennis?

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