Use this na lang.

Is there a final squad already?

When's the first game?

ONE BIG FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From what I've heard, Ateneo vs UP on Jan 15

Heckling happiness is here again!

You're mean, atenean_blooded. hyukhyukhyukhyuk!!!

ONE BIG FIGHT, BLUE BOOTERS!!!!!

GO FOR 3-PEAT!!!

I'm not mean.

I'm as meek as can be.

Thank you for making me spray my monitor with Sprite.

Back to the topic - is the Blue Booters' first game against UP on Jan 15? What time? And what can we expect from the UP football team?

Games usually start at 1:30 or 2:00 with the second game at 4:00. They've been playing at the college football fields (beside the BEG) for the past 6 years so that's probably where most of the games will be held this year. There'll probably be a parade of athletes to start the season.

UP is a perennial powerhouse in football, except for last year. They had a talented team--Kale Alvarez in particular--but could not quite get it together as a team. I hear that Ateneo alum Raul Grapilon will be captain of the team this year. He's an Economics major, one of the few UP athletes not taking up some permutation of Sports Science.

Last year, the Opening was 10 AM. Tapos our first match was 10:30 against DLSU. We were first then in 2004 and DLSU was 6th. Last year (since it's already 2006), we were first and UP placed 6th. Like in basketball, there is a pattern also for scheduling; 1st vs. 6th, 2nd vs. 5th and 3rd vs. 4th are the Opening Matches as always. So I don't know, but I think UP will be our first opponent come January 15.

Happy new year to you too, Carrot.


Looks like the first game will be versus UP, at around 9 am (I remember the first game of the season last year versus La Salle quite well: I almost crashed my car headed for the Ateneo all the way from Alabang). I don't know how UP will fare without Kale, and I don't know if they've got any blue-chip recruits. I know Raul personally, and I think that he'll be playing all-out. This will, hopefully, be a good game.

Aga naman ng 9am... pero for the love of the Ateneo... nandun tayo! hyukhyukhyukhyuk!!! umaabot nga tayo sa San Beda Alabang at San Juan Gym manood ng games eh, kahit gano pa ka-aga!

any news as to the exact time of the game this sunday? I also heard that the venue may be at marikina sports... sana confirmed na...

One Big Fight!

I think Marikina was asking for P 30K for the use of the field so the UAAP said shove it . Actually its good because ang layo ng stands sa field at the Rodriguez center and there's no parking.

Saw this sched on admu.edu.ph

68TH SEASON UAAP FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
MEN’S DIVISION

Sunday – January 15, 2006
10:00 AM ADMU VS UP Ateneo College Fld #1

Thursday – January 19, 2006
3:00 PM DLSU VS ADMU Ateneo College Fld #1

Sunday – January 22, 2006
3:00 PM UE VS ADMU Ateneo High School Fld

Wednesday – January 25, 2006
1:00 PM ADMU VS FEU Ateneo College Fld #1

Sunday – January 29, 2006
3:00 PM UST VS ADMU Ateneo College Fld #1


Hope lotsa people watch and cheer. 3-peat na!

oh, scheds for the other events or on the same site

One game at a time.

Football season starts tomorrow at 10AM against UP.

Can someone post the full lineup with jersey numbers and positions. I usually get this info from ubelt.com but its not available yet.

Ateneo beat UP 3-0. JP Merida, Lastimado and Ingles scored for Ateneo.

The final score belies the closeness of the game. Ateneo was a little tentative, content to pass among themselves in midfield without any real purpose. UP dominated possession for the most part especially after Ateneo chose to sit back on their early lead. Suspect finishing and outstanding goalkeeping by the much improved Jerwin Bellina helped Ateneo keep a clean sheet.

JP scored the first from a pretty play off a corner. #14 (?) took a long corner which Alvin Perez headed back into the path of JP who coolly smacked it home. Roger scored a Gabriel Batistuta like scorcher from just inside the penalty box after breaking free in the middle. Ingles (is it Miki or Migy ?), with a UP defender draped all over him, rushed in just in time to tuck in a great low cross from Gino Tiongson to round out the scoring. The veterans came through.

Defense is still solid with MVP Pat Ozaeta anchoring. I wonder what ever happened to Villon? JP is still a rock in midfield--reminds me so much of Patrick Vieira complete with his "angas", same with Gimarino. Rookie Cancio from the High School looks like he's going to be real good real soon. Its a shame he was taken out early. He was the one who won the corner that led to the first goal.

Its La Salle on Thursday at 3PM. Caught the first half of their game against UST (they led 1-0 at the half) and they're not going to be the pushovers that they have been the last 2 or 3 years. Ozaeta and his mates are going to be busy, mabibilis yung frontline ng La Salle. May talo tayo sa kanila.

Congratulations to the Ateneo Blue Booters for winning the first of their many wins this season!!!! Another very promising Men's Football season.

Great cheering by the Ateneo Blue Babble and heckling by the Ateneo 6th Man. On a side note, atenean_blooded, Legal Eagle, Pepsiblue21 and I weren't able to contribute much to the heckling since the more legendary Ateneans (I am putting it nicely ha ) were already doing it passionately. Hyukhyukhyukhyukhyukhyuk!!!!

And La Salle won over UST. Score was 2-1.

Our Ateneo Lady Booters lost to the UST Ladies, 1-0. I'm blaming two people for the not so good outcome of the game. The first one exchanged Ateneo for horses, thus he wasn't able to watch. The second naman, sleepy na raw! Hyukhyukhyukhyukhyuk!!! Seriously.



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Ateneo Booters Blank State U, 3-0
by Reuben Ezra Terrado
http://www.ubelt.com/ub/uaap/mfb/story.aspx?id=1032


Ateneo de Manila started its title-retention bid on a winning note with a 3-0 decision over UP 3-0 at the opening game of the UAAP Season 68 football tournament last Sunday (January 15) at the Ateneo Field.

John Paul Merida scored the first goal of the season in the 27th minute to take the early lead, 1-0. A header by Alvin Perez that came from a corner by Emmanuel Gimarino sailed in front of Merida, who nailed a short kick that went passed the goalkeeper.

UP tried to come back but Blue Booter Roger Lastimado got himself free in the open field and pounced a goal at the 83rd minute of the contest for a 2-0 lead. Five minutes later, the Blue Eagles got the insurance goal courtesy of team captain Micky Ingles, 3-0.

Coach Ompong Merida said that even with the win, the Blue Booters could have played better. “Adjustments pa rin kami dahil first game namin,” said Merida, on their game against UP. “We hope to improve in our next game.”

The Loyola-based booters will be vying for its third straight UAAP men’s football tournament crown this season and coach Merida knows the importance of every game to attain that objective.

“The first game is always important in every tournament,” noted Merida. “We will take the usual approach which is taking it one game at a time and then we’ll see what happens.”

In other games, goals from Vaughn Melendrez and Jeremias Jiao gave De La Salle a 2-1 triumph over runners-up of last year, UST.

Melendrez scored on a putback from a miss by Sean Gepaya in the 14th minute while Jiao’s goal just before halftime gave the Green Booters a 2-0 lead.

The Tigers threatened after Jose Louie Brillantes’ penalty kick in the 77th but De La Salle was able to hold on with the victory.

In women’s action, Amalie Martino and Farrabeth Limbo scored a goal each to give UP a 2-1 win over FEU to kick off the women’s tournament.

#14 is Peter Mortillero, a prized recruit from Davao.

Mark Villon played his last year of eligibility last season. He recently played for the SEA Games team in Bacolod.

Congratulations, chillosk and the rest of the Blue Booters!

Today was a game that showcased Ateneo's form and was perhaps a pretty good reminder to the rest of the field that our boys have got championship experience. After a relatively listless game, one could feel the Blue-and-White offensive machine starting to hum and wind up, resulting in a stunning first half goal and two goals in the second half. We missed several attempts. Had all of our attempts gone in, the score would've been 6-0 or something like that.

The defense was pretty good, and special mention goes to our goalkeeper. I liked how our boys buckled down on anyone trying to take over the UP offense, and our efforts stymied the UP offense.

As usual, some stupid calls by the referees, despite offers of Yellow Cab Pizza. Sigh.

ANIMO ATENEO!
ONE BIG FIGHT!

Good game today. One thing I can say is you guys know how to finish. Who's going to take over Matthew Jaucian's role as enforcer

blooded, it wasn't yellow cab pizza that the legendary hecklers were offering. they were actually offering the refs yellow cab sandwiches. kaya siguro meron pa ring stupid calls. hehe

again, congrats to the Ateneo Football team for kickin UP's ass

[quote name='atenista_comm' date='Jan 15 2006, 05:42 PM' post='106636']

I'm blaming two people for the not so good outcome of the game. The first one exchanged Ateneo for horses, thus he wasn't able to watch. The second naman, sleepy na raw! Hyukhyukhyukhyukhyuk!!! Seriously.



Hmph ... whatever!!!

Baka naman nahilo ang mga Lady Booters sa amoy ng alcohol na sumisingaw sa DALAWANG taong nanood sa kanila?

Anyway, congratulations to the Blue Booters!!!

pepsiblue:

Oo nga pala. It was Yellow Cab sandwiches and Jollibee Pizza.

My bad.

pictures of both games are now up at www.fabilioh.com

enjoy!

...... GREAT GAME LAST SUNDAY! The defending champions played like champions and UP was never in
the game.

..... Also nice to see that there are now more supporters who come out to watch the games. Since most of
games are being played in Loyola it should be pretty easy for us to go out there and show our support

..... After all, we are going for a 3-peat!!!

..... Hope to see more supporters in future games.


ANIMO ATENEO !!!!!!

Tomorrow, I'll try to invite as many batchmates, (and perhaps schoolmates) in the game. "Of course, La Salle yan eh!"

We don't have classes on Friday, plus, our dismissal is 2:55 PM

I hope we win tomorrow.

Our lady booters lost 0-1 to defending champions, De La Salle, today. Hope the men's team does better tomorrow. One big fight!

Heckling happiness will be there.

Kahit hindi buo yung Ateneo San Miguel Boys Choir namin nina atenista_comm.


(Vocalizes)



SUSPENDED SPELLING THREE TIMES!
L-A-S-A-LL-E! Lasal, nyah!
L-A-S-A-LL-E! Suspen-ded!
L-A-S-A-LL-E! Basu-rah!

The Lady Eagle Booters did pretty well yesterday, they just lack finishing. La Salle was lucky to get their goal because our goalie hesitated instead of charging the ball.

Big game against La Salle men today.

Ehem... ehem... cheer and heckle for me, atenean_blooded.

If by any chance, please offer the refs for a post-game meal of Jollibee Pizza. Hyukhyukhyukhyukhyuk!!! Stand beside Mr. Yello Cab Sandwich ha! I love you lang, ref!!!! Ano!

4:20pm

just got a call from alikishi, we lead 1-0 2nd half...

One Big Fight!

4:35pm

got a text

2-0 ADMU!

One Big Fight!

The Online 6th Man is again on!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ateneo 2 - Suspended 0

Everyone... join me in cheering!!!

Suspended spelling three times!!!

Uno-dos-tres!!!

L-A-S-A-L-L-E!!!
La Salle Rah!!!!


Thanks to Mr. Jun Dalandan for the SMS update.

We won!

Final score:

ADMU 2 - DLSU 0

One Big Fight!

Wuhooo!!! We won!!! We won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to the ATENEO BLUE BOOTERS for gaining their 2nd win in 2 games!!!!!

One more time guys...

Suspended spelling three times!!!

Uno-dos-tres!!!

L-A-S-A-L-L-E!!!
La Salle Rah!!!!

Thanks to Mr. Jun Dalandan and atenean_blooded for the victory SMS update that they sent me!!!

Great game today. As in the previous game, Ateneo started slowly. La Salle dominated the first half playing ball control football but couldn't penetrate the Ozaeta led defense. Their one clear chance came off a free kick that just barely cleared the crossbar. The 2nd half was the mirror image of the first with Ateneo constantly pressuring La Salle's defense. The breakthrough goal came after rookie left winger Maranon won the ball near the left edge of the penalty box and laid the ball perfectly to Gino Tongson who slammed the ball home. Roger Lastimado scored his 2nd goal of the tournament after brilliantly controlling a lobbed ball just inside the penalty box with his shoulder and coolly slotting it past the keeper--almost Ronaldo like. They showed the true heart of a champion in the 2nd half.

I caught a glimpse of JC Intal in the crowd. The whole basketball team can learn a thing or two about how to play with heart from this football team.

Ateneo de Manila def. DLSU, 2-0

The Ateneo Blue Booters grabbed solo lead in the Men's Football competition of the UAAP this afternoon by defeating DLSU, 2-0, at the Ateneo de Manila College Football Field in the Ateneo's Loyola Heights campus.

The La Salle booters, led by their masteral recruits from San Beda, dominated in the first half, stifling the Blue Booters with their impressive mid-field play and ball handling. The game was still tied 0-0 at the half.

The Ateneans refused to take things sitting down in the second half, running the field and dominating on offense in the face of rough play from La Salle. Midway through the second half, the Blue Booters capitalized on their strength in the wings to weaken La Salle's center defense, allowing for quick plays that gave the Ateneo 2 goals. Gino Tiongson shot the ball after a perfect pass from Maranon. The second goal came from Roger Lastimado, who took a lobbed ball from Mickey Ingles, controlled it, and shot it past a hapless La Salle keeper for his second goal of the tournament.

The La Salle players refused to give up, but could not penetrate the solid defense that the Ateneans threw at them all game long. The Ateneo defense kept the La Salle strikers from getting decent shooting opportunities, suspending the greenies' offense. In the end, the Lasallites ran out of time, and the Ateneans completed their domination of La Salle in UAAP football.

Kudos also to the Blue Babble Battalion which led the home crowd. Once again, the 6th Man outcheered and outdrummed the opposition.

Ingles made the lob pass to Lastimado! Hehehe, i'm proud!

This was a good win for the team, especially after some controversy regarding our uniforms

Anyway, please watch this sunday, 3 pm in the high school field, vs UE!

ONE BIG FIGHT!!!

chillosk:

What was the controversy regarding your uniforms? The stuff about the sponsor?

Yup, something to do with the sponsorship. I don't really want to get into detail because I don't think I'm at liberty to say.

But as we said before the UP game, uniform lang yan. Laro na lang.

congrats to the Ateneo Football team for kicking DLRT's ass.
defend the crown

ang saya ang daming nanood kahapon. tapos nung nasa car na kami, we pretended that we werent able to catch the game and asked a la sallian who won the game. hehe.

From what I've seen so far, Ateneo plays a 4-4-2 with some combination of Cancio/Lastimado/Gino Tiongson/Tristan Tiongson/Wilson up front; Ingles and Maranon at right and left wing; Merida and Gimarino as ball winning center halfs; Mortillero and Perez as overlapping wing backs in the Roberto Carlos/Cafu mode; Ozaeta and Caliwanagan as ass-kicking center backs.

Next target of the Ateneo Blue Booters is the UE team this Sunday, 3pm at the Ateneo campus.

Let us all watch the game. It will be right after the funeral mass of Fr. Rector/President Francisco Araneta at the Gesu, 2pm.

Are the San Miguel Choir boys coming? psst... Legal Eagle, Posterized, atenean_blooded, Pizza Guy... hyukhyukhyukhyuk!!! Will we hear another rendition of Tito Cubao's UE spelling on Sunday?

I just love this picture of Miguel de Leon in Fabilioh.com.


Fail Fail Almuranas!!! Hyukhyukhyukhyukhyuk!!!

Like another La Sallite with the jersey #8, I am now marking the La Salle booter Lara, whose rough play and angas went pfft in the face of a 2-0 punishing from the Blue Booters.

So kaka talaga e. Biruin mo, he made sipa sipa da bola and it hit a BMW so hard that the driver nearly made weewee in his pantalon? So kapal talaga the face. As in. No sorry sorry. Next time, we will call security. Grabe.




Enough of that.





comm:

I'll be there on Sunday.

And we would like to extend our invitation to the public, to catch another award-winning performance by the Ateneo San Miguel Boys Choir during the Ateneo-UE game.

amen to that chillosk! defend the crown!

yup... ung celebration na lang ni gino tiongson after scoring eh... so much passion and all heart talaga.

on another note, hats off to team captain micky ingles who kept his cool (and even shook hands) with the suspended players who could not defend him properly and thus resorted to kalye tactics...

Hindi kasi kayang bantayan ng harapan eh, kaya sinasaktan na lang. tsk tsk tsk

Erratic game by the Blue Booters today. The Eagles were out of synch with each other perhaps partly due to the insertion of Siojo and Reyes into the starting back four instead of Perez and Caliwanagan. At times, you could hear the players arguing amongst themselves. It was a case of "one-pass-too-many" the whole game. Sometimes you just have to shoot the ball. In the end, they played just well enough to eke out the win, 1-nil.

The lone goal was almost a replay of the first goal of the tournament. A corner to the far post, an Alvin Perez header back in and this time a Roger Lastimado bicycle kick that bounced off the pitch and under the crossbar--Roger's third goal in as many games.

A win is a win. At least now they know they can win pretty and they can win ugly.

FEU on Wednesday.