LVPI PRESIDENT JOEY ROMASANTA AT BAYARANG MEDIA : NASAAN ANG KAGITINGAN ?

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Ipinagdiriwang natin ngayon ang Araw ng Kagitingan. Subalit tila kasabay na namatay ng kagitingan sa Pilipinas ang pagpanaw ng ating mga bayani.

Maging sa larangan ng palakasan, tila naglaho na ang kagitingan. Sa kabila ng kadakilaan ng ating mga atleta noong nakalipas na panahon, hindi nakuhang panatilihin ang kagitingan sa Philippine sports. Paano ba naman mapapanatili ang kagitingan kung ang mga tulad ni LVPI President Joey Romasanta ang patuloy na namamayagpag sa sports ?

Matatandaan na pinanghimasukan ni Romasantaang volleyball nung nakaraang taon. Nagsumbong siya sa Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) at sinabing naging inutil na ang Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF). Kinalaunan, nagtatag na siya ng panibagong NSA. At tulad ng inaasahan, siya ang tumayong presidente ng kanyang tinatag na NSA para sa volleyball.

Ang di-katanggap-tanggap ay ginawa na ito ni Romasanta noon sa karatedo. Mainam na alalahanin natin na ginulo rin ni Romasanta ang Karatedo Federation. At sa bandang huli, siya rin ang naging presidente ng karatedo. Narito ang isang ulat tungkol dito :

 http://thefirstplacefinish.blogspot.com/2015/11/lvpi-president-joey-romasanta-at.html

Pansinin na parehong-pareho sa ulat ang ginawa ni Romasanta sa volleyball. Ginawa niya nuong 2014 ang ginawa na niya nuong 2011.

Hindi sana magtatagumpay si Romasanta sa balak niya kung hindi siya sinuportahan ng mga bayaran na media. Napalitaw na tama ang mali dahil sa mga media na bayaran. At ang masaklap, patuloy pa rin ang mga bayaran na media sa pagpuri kay Romasanta at kanyang mga alipores hanggang sa kasalukuyan.

Kaya ngayong Araw ng Kagitingan, di ko maiwasang magtanong. Saan na ang kagitingan ?

ISANG CHRISTMAS PARTY PARA SA MGA KAIBIGAN SA SOCIAL MEDIA

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Inaanyayahan ang lahat ng mga kaibigan ng Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF) sa social media para sa isang masayang pagtitipon. Ang pagtitipon ay magsisilbing Christmas party ng mga kaibigan na walang sawang sumusuporta sa PVF. Nakatakdang ganapin ang Christmas party sa ikatlong linggo ng Disyembre.

Isang taon na tayong pinagbuklod ng mga kaganapan sa volleyball. Isang taon na tayo naging magkakaibigan dahil sa ating mga pinagdaanan at patuloy na pinagdadaanan. Kaya marapat lang na magkita-kita, magsaya at magbalitaan tayo.

May ilang players din ang dadalo para magdagdag saya sa ating pagtitipon. Simple lang ang ating magiging Christmas party para di mabigat sa bulsa. Ang mahalaga, magsama-sama tayo at mapagsaluhan ang saya ng Kapaskuhan at diwa ng tunay na pagkakaibigan.

Wow, Fantastic Baby.

BOYCOTT PHILIPPINE SUPERLIGA AS IT VIOLATES AN IMMIGRATION LAW

Philippine Superliga (PSL) violated an immigration law and paid Php 600,000.00 to Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) for the violation.

No less than BID Commisioner Siegfred Mison ordered PSL to pay Php 600,000.00 for allowing its imports to play in the Grand Prix without the necessary work permit. The order was released October 28, 2015.

The violation of PSL speaks volumes of the character of the officials and people making up PSL. It is impossible for these people not to know that they have to first secure the necessary special work permit for their imports from BID before allowing their imports to play. Perhaps, these people are so sure that no one would investigate and dig up the status of their imports. That they will simply get way with it. Too bad that someone actually investigated the issue and dug up vital documents.

With this total disrespect for the law, PSL must be taught a lesson. And what better way than to boycott the league. It is time to teach PSL that it does not pay to circumvent the law. Time to put a stop to the illegal ways of PSL.

BOYCOTT.

THE PHILIPPINE STAR, LVPI AND THE TRUTH

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The Philippine Star releases a special volleyball supplement for its November 21, 2015 issue. Clearly, the supplement is a cheap trick to promote Larong Volleyball Sa Pilipinas (LVPI) and its inept officials.

The Philippine Star has the audacity to insinuate that the Philippine Volleyball Federation has been remiss in its duty to send teams to the SEA Games in the last 10 years. The truth of the matter is, the officials that The Philippine Star is praising to high heavens are the ones who prevented the volleyball teams from participating in the SEA Games. It is a great disservice to the players and PVF to say that PVF did not assemble teams for the SEA Games in the last 10 years. The officials of Philippine Olympic Committee (POC), who are now LVPI officials, were the ones who prevented the volleyball teams from participating.

Likewise, The Philippine Star has the nerve to feature the statements of LVPI officials that highlight its national program for volleyball. People have seen how LVPI assembled a national team through phone calls. People know that LVPI has come up with a national team at the last minute at the airport. People know how LVPI did away with try-outs to form national teams. Never in the history of Philippine sports has a national team been formed at the airport at the last minute through phone calls and without try-outs. The Philippine Star conveniently forgets all these.

The Philippine Star has the responsibility to tell the truth. Sadly, it has abandoned such responsibility in writing about LVPI, its officials and volleyball, in general. Ironically, the tagline of The Philippine Star is "Truth Shall Prevail". How can it prevail when the paper itself conceals the truth ?

TATS SUZARA AND HIS LETTER TO GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS BOARD

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Games and Amusements Board (GAB) requested Philippine Super Liga (PSL) to secure the necessary permit and licenses for a professional league last year. The request was made as GAB came into the conclusion that PSL is a professional league.

GAB defines professional sport as "understood to mean an individual or team sport wherein the participant athlete is paid sums of money and other forms of compensation as regular salary or prizes for participation in games, contests, bouts or tournaments which are conducted under permits duly issued by the Gamesand Amusements Board". A professional athlete, on the other hand, "refers to a person who is paid a sum of money and other compensation as a salary or prize money for participating in a game, bout, tournament or contest of a professional sport, either as an individual contestant or member of a team under a contract entered into with a professional sports promoter or team owner and whether licensed or not by the Games and Amusements Board".

PSL refused to get the necessary permit and licenses from GAB as it stood firm in its belief that it is not a professional league. Below is Tats Suzara's letter of explanation to GAB :

Are the statements of Tats Suzara true ?

THE SHAMEFUL DISPLAY OF POWER AND INFLUENCE OF TATS SUZARA

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Once again, Sportscore Event Management President and AVC Development and Marketing Committee Chairman Tats Suzara displays his great power and influence. Through his efforts, Suzara has installed volleyball non - entity  LVPI President Joey Romasanta as AVC Board Member. Despite the lack of knowledge on volleyball, Romasanta now occupies a powerful position in the AVC hierarchy.

Instead of being proud of placing Romasanta in AVC, Suzara should be ashamed for his latest show of influence. Instead of putting an accomplished Filipino volleyball personality in AVC, Suzara chose someone whose best qualification is being the president of a Philippine volleyball organization that is currently involved in a court case.

If Suzara thinks his latest display of power and influence will draw awe and admiration from the Filipino people, he is terribly mistaken. His latest caper only shows his true nature of putting unqualified people in position to protect his selfish interests.

MINSA'Y ISANG GAMU-GAMO

Nagulo ang mundo ng volleyball sa Pilipinas dahil sa kagagawan ng isang maimpluwensiyang tao. Kung kailan papaunlad na ang programa ng Philippine volleyball, biglang umeksena ang taong ito para madiskaril ang papaganda na sanang takbo ng volleyball sa Pilipinas.

Kasalukuyang namamayagpag ang taong ito. Subalit nakalimutan yata niya ang kanyang pagkakamali na nagawa nuong nakaraan ding taon. At ang kanyang pagkakamali ay dokumentado. Kalakip ang kanyang lagda sa mga dokumento.

Tiyak na mahihirapan ang maimpluwensiyang taong ito na ipaliwanag ang kanyang pagkakamali. Lalung-lalo na kung may isang tao na buong tapang na lilitaw upang isiwalat ang pagkakamali na magpapakita sa sambayanan ng kabuktutuan ng maimpluwensiyang taong ito.

Buo ang paniniwala ng inyong lingkod na may ilan pa ring Pilipino ang nagtataglay ng tapang at tamang paninindigan. May ilan pa ring Pilipino ang handang ipaglaban ang tama kahit maimpluwensiyang tao pa ang babanggain. Buo ang paniniwala ng inyong lingkod na matapang at magiting ang Pilipino sa gitna ng kabuktuktan ng lipunan na kaniyang ginagalawan. Kaya nananatiling puno ng pag-asa ang inyong lingkod na sasabog ang pagkakamali ng maimpluwensiyang tao na ito at mananaig ang katarungan.