Global FC in Cebu

Footballers from the Global Football Club (Global FC) was town Monday visiting the different showrooms of Gateway Motors Group, the distributor of Kia cars in Cebu. Kia has been a long-time corporate sponsor of the Azkals Team and the Global FC which are both managed and owned by Dan Palami.

The Global FC who were here included national football players Carli de Murga, Juani Guirado, Denis Wolf, Jeffrey Christiaens, Jason de Jong and Joshua Beloya. Among them are our very own Cebuano players from the Azkals Team Paolo Pascual, Brian Reichelt, and Jerry Barbaso from Dipolog.

Two batches of players visited Peugeot and BMW showrooms in the morning simultaneously. After their visits and photographs, followed a brief press conference for the members of the media. In the presscon, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President’s Cup was discussed.

The AFC President’s Cup is being held now in Cebu with tournaments scheduled today at 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., and two others on May 10 and 12. All games are held at the Cebu City Sports Center’s Abellana Field.

Foreign football club contenders are from Bhutan, Pakistan and Kyrgystan.

Global FC is headed by their Scottish Coach Brian Reid.