Between 20th to the 3rd of May I was in Philippines to celebrate my daughter Sarah-Nicole's' 18th birthday and also to visit the FCIC Lapu Lapu U14 Team that we are sponsoring to come to Australia to play in the Kanga Cup. On Wednesday me and my wife cought a flight from Nasipit to Lapu Lapu and on our landing been welcomed by the clubs Secretary/Web admin. Mr. Hans Potot and together caught a Taxi to Lo - ok Lapu Lapu National High school where the clubs juniors were training On our arrival at the school we met the teachers and watched the youngsters train under the guidance of Coach Jano. I had also joined the training kicking the ball around and working with the team practicing and improving their corner kick defence marking. At the end of the training I have handed over the promotional Kanga Cup Football goodies that Adam Castle the Capital Footballs Events Manager has kindly given to us to bring over. There were Balls caps Pens, Pins and stickers etc. which have been distributed and shared with the rest of the club juniors. Later that night we met with Hans and Coach Jano at the Lapu Lapu shrine where the Fiesta was in the full swing celebrating the historic battle that took place on the 27th April 1521 years to date between Chieftain Lapu Lapu his Mactan Island Man and the Magellan's Spanish aggressors which were defeated and where the great Magellan himself lost his life. The Lapu Lapu Shrine was packed with people taking part in the festivities that had live battle enactment with performing solo artists, bands singing all day long and finally later in the night culminating with an elaborate and exciting Fireworks dysplay. We had a late dinner were Jano, Hans and me had a lengthy chat and the topic was you guest it... "Football". About midnight we parted company and remained to meet the next day at the School were the teams were training with us saying good bye to the Boys and also to meet the local Barangay Captain and do some more hard Football lobbying. It was exciting to meet the youngsters which were as excited and very much looking forward to come play Football in this years Kanga Cup and we parted company by saying: See you in Australia in July!
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