• Submitted by: manso
• Sports
• 12 / 24 / 2010

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PHILIPPINE Sports Commission chairman Richie Garcia said yesterday that the PSC is again planning to send national athletes to train in China and Cuba.

PSC Chairman Richie Garcia said he has already discussed the matter with the ambassadors of the two countries to make the necessary arrangements.

The practice of seeking the services of foreign coaches or sending the athletes to the two countries were actually stopped last July during a period of transition in the sports agency when Garcia replaced then PSC chair Harry Angping.

“Kailangang i-buildup ulit. Hindi natin kailangan ng bagong memorandum of understanding. But we will have a new one if the old one has expired,” said Garcia.

He noted that the PSC started sending Filipino athletes to train in China following a memorandum of agreement between the two countries in 2008.

The PSC chief said that he and Chinese ambassador Liu Jianchao had been discussing the possible places in China, where the athletes can train, even as Cuban envoy Juan Corrales has again expressed willingness to help train Filipino boxers.

The PSC, meanwhile, is studying whether to send only the boxers to Cuba, or to include their coaches as well.

Two years ago, the Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines hired Cuban coaches Dagoberto Rojas Scot and Juan Enrique Tissert to train Filipino boxers, who saw action in a series of the 2008 Olympics qualifying matches. The boxers were accompanied by coaches Pat Gaspi and Ronald Chavez. Peter Atencio

Source: www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideSports.htm?f=2010/december/23/sports4....