Tuesday, January 27, 2009

CDN agrees to feature XP Club

Hi guys


As promised in the team meeting, I have talked to my friends in Sun Star and Cebu Daily News about possibly writing a story about our XP Club. Thanks to my friend Kate Go who's a feature writer for Cebu Daily News, CDN has agreed to publish a feature story about us for FREE!!! In the meantime, Kate is also working on Sun Star to do the same for us.


So here is a great opportunity for this interesting group of people to be presented to the communities in Cebu. I consider this as an honor to be featured in the local newspaper and to tell the stories about this dynamic football club. I would like to call on every member of this club to make an effort to make this news article a success, which will benefit each one of us!


Kate has been a long-standing contributor for CDN and has great friends among the managing staff both in CDN and Sun Star. There are some basic requirements that she would like us to help with before she writes up the article:



1.She needs to take photos of us as a team wearing team jerseys. You are also welcome to provide old photos of the club.


2.She would like to interview as many players as possible from different countries to get a complete picture.

3.She suggests that interview and photo-taking can be arranged at our Saturday practice or at a certain venue.


I will leave it to Otto/Tony to work out how to get all the work done in a most convenient way. But I would like to stress here again (sorry it's an age thing...some of you will understand) that this will be done for us for FREE! We have 2 weeks to finish this task. It will be much appreciated if all of us make some effort to help in this club initiative!


Cheers to XP!

Eric

Monday, January 26, 2009

XP Cebu International Soccer Club Minutes January 23rd, 2009

Great turn out of players at this months meeting; its good stuff to see so many of the team starting to participate in its operation.

1. Treasury Report
Otto went over the finance report for 2008 which has been posted previously here on the blog. Everybody signed off the report as accurate and true and thanks Otto for his sterling work.
2009 was then covered with Otto making his projections for the year clear this included rental for Metro Sport and the new addition of rental for our Saturday game. An increase to subscriptions was recommended and agreed by those present. Thus quarterly fees for players of both midweek and weekend games will pay P2,000 per quarter whilst Saturday only players will still contribute P1,000 per quarter. Guest players will now pay P150.

2. Unfortunately we have lost the use of the Timex Field on Mactan; everybody understood how disappointing this news was but at the same time voiced great appreciation to Bob and Timex for there support over the last few years. There was not a single person that did not understand the reasoning behind the decision.
Fortunately, with the help of Warren, we have been very lucky in securing the football field at CIS. Both Otto and Tony expressed there deep concern that XP members showed respect for the facility this means: No alcohol, no urinating on the field, no foul language, giving respect to the guards and ground staff. Basically, remember that we cannot afford to loose this opportunity so don’t mess it up for everyone else; this is a great facility and you will enjoy playing football at Cebu best football pitch. Football starts 31st January 3.30pm until 5.30pm. Just as an add on we did also talk about the new pitch at Macro and this can be used as a back-up although will be dependant on availability.
We also covered the topic of Franz junior playing on both the midweek and weekend games and as a group agreed he was a very welcome and positive addition to the game. On a Wednesday he and dad will manage there substitutions.
Lastly Tony will talk with both Timex and CIS about the collection and storage of the small goal mouths.
3. At a previous meeting Rudolf expressed an interest in developing a more competitive team of players that could represent XP in the tournaments and perform to a better level (in terms of results) than recently. This was generally accepted as a positive step and could be operated in conjunction with those players wanting to play more for fun. As such the midweek games have been organized for those players targeted for either competition or fun whilst the weekend games will be captained by Rudolf and Otto (trial) where teams will be selected on equal merit although players must listen to the instructions given by the captain once choose e.g. you will be given a position on the field where its anticipated you will operate.
The captains will organize, control and manage any disputes during the game.
4. Jeremy has taken control of the blog; we will use this tool again in the future to capture team news; please make sure you tell people where they can find information and if they struggle to register that they can contact Jeremy for advice. Jeremy will also be cleaning up the site and has a deadline of the end of February.
5. Panny is committed to registering players with the FA; please help him by supplying your passport pictures and completing the registration document; this is required for future competitions. Franz will investigate entry to the Thirsty Cup and report. Rudolf to captain the open team, Otto to captain the over 35’s.
6. We all passed on our thanks to our wonderful Iranian friends whose time with XP Cebu is close coming to an end (months not weeks); but impressed on everyone the need to canvas for new players. Please make it part of your conversation to speak about football whenever you meet someone new…
In addition Erick will speak with the Sun Star and see if he can negotiate for some free editorial and cheap advertising space.
The meeting ended 9.54pm

Thirsty Cup 2009

Hi. Franz asked me to post this information regarding the Thirsty Cup. 

Dates: Feb 27 - March 1st
Venue: Cebu Sports Complex
Deadline: February 17th

For Mens Open contact Rodolphe
Over 35 contact Otto

We will have two teams from our last meeting so everyone interested in playing needs to inform them before Feb 17th. Franz also says he asked and we do NOT need to be members of the football association to play this. Contact the captains asap guys !!


Group email added

Otto if you get this in your email then the group emailing should be
working properly.

Replies to this email will not get posted properly on the blog so I
advise everyone to click the link to the blog in the footer of this
email when replying and posting comments

If you know someone that has not received this email then they were
not added to the group email properly so have them send me their email
again please.

Looking forward to playing on the new pitch this weekend.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

FUTSAL GROUPS AND MEETING

hi guys
starting next week we have a new mix for the futsal groups. We lost 1 player - Mike left for manila - but we have 2 new regular player - Eric and Shawn - and Jordi and Gaetano are back as regular player. Now we have 20 futsal player - the maximum - 10 for each group.
The tuesday group will be organized by Rodolphe, Wednesday by myself.
Tuesday group: Rodolphe,Xavier,Jordi,Gaetano, Nicolas,Ricardo,Hicham,Chris, Eric,Shawn.
Wednesday group: Otto,Franz,Panny,Edwin,Jeremy,Vince,Behdad,Rahim,Pouria,Mahdi.

Once again please confirm your play every tuesday/ wednesday so that there is no shortage of player. if you show up without confirmation it can happen that you sent home because the group is full. NO show up even you confirmed lead you to suspension from futsal.

There is a XP player meeting next friday, 23.January at 8pm for approval of new budget and contribution of 2009, sign of the 2008 statement, information about search for a football field, information about coming tournaments...thirstycup, manila, etc
the meeting is at Angelinas Restaurant, beer is on the club.
see you guys.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Uncomplete email

hi guys
the blogg i wrote arrived uncomplete at your mailbox...for the full text please read at the blogg..
xpcebu.blogspot.com

Jeremy why is it like that...

TREASURER REPORT 2008

Hi Guys
Unefected from the worldwide financial crises XP Cebu reports a record revenue and stabil financial situation....
Contribution from regular player 119.000 Peso
Guestplayer 12.300 Peso
Payment for 2007 700 Peso
Takeover from 2007 5.881 Peso
Total 137.881 Peso

Expenses:
Metrosport 80.800 Peso
Balls and Equipment 12.392 Peso
Cluboutings, Moalboal-Tournam.,X-mass Party 27.191 Peso
Participation Fees 4.000 Peso
Miscell. 2.175 Peso
Total 126.558 Peso

Balance by end of the year 11.323 Peso

We dont have any open contributions and no open bills.
By end of the year we had 22 active player from 12 different countries.
Some player will leave us in 2009 but at the moment we have already 3 new regular player joining 2009.

Everybody know that we lost the TIMEX field. At the moment we put all our effort in getting the CIS field again. It looks good that we can get it starting january 31. This time we will not get it for free anymore. It will cost us most likly 1000 Peso per saturday. In the month of the school summerbreak we will also not allowed to play there. For this time we working on the Aboitiz field, which is very expensive but our choises are limited.

The finacial situation for 2009 has changed because of this.
i introduce a proposel budget for 2009 as follow:

Contributions from regular player incl. futsal (20 Player max.) 160.000 Peso
Contributions from regular player without futsal (appr. 5 player) 20.000 Peso
Guestplayer 10.000 Peso
Takeover from 2008 11.000 Peso

Total 201.000

Expenses:
Metrosport 80.000 Peso
CIS Field 36.000 Peso
add. field - maybe aboitiz 20.000 Peso
Balls 10.000 Peso
participation fees 6.000 Peso
Cluboutings, X-mass Party 30.000 Peso
Miscell. 6000 Peso
Total 188.000 Peso

Therefore i ask the 20 futsal player for a quarterly contrib. of 2000 Peso - yearly 8000 Peso.
The non-futsal player can stay at 1000 Peso per quarter - 4000 Peso a year.
20 x 8000 = 160.000 Peso
5 x 4000 = 20.000 Peso
Total 180.000 Peso

i call for a meeting next week to approve the budget 2009
see you

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Most of the Sheriffs I see on TV get shot

Mate, tks for getting me logged in, just not sure how I now merge the accounts. Any suggestions?

We also need to look at the content of the Blog, I notice the rules, practices and instructions are out of date. Some of the links need re-working also, the road to Germany is now the road to S.Africa 2010 for instance. Maybe we can cover this at our next meeting?

Bring your stetson ( http://www.stetsonhat.com ) and spurs "Hi Ho Silver".......

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

hi Sheriff
please update the contributers...erase:
andy parrot,pieter,herve lampert,peter wood,babak,juergen,pinoy,wolfgang pichler,dazza,holger,simon timmins,matt porray.
please add:
vince,hicham,xavier,chris,behdad,pouria,rahim, mahdi, edwin,gerard.

maybe some other new player will become regular this month, than we just add them.

thanks, see you