ATENEO WON AGAINST A SCHOOL ALONG RECTOR

A win is a win ika nga.

The Ateneo de Manila Blue Booters buckled down and managed to turn an ugly, listless game into a victory over UE, 1-0, thanks to a bicycle kick by veteran Roger Lastimado.

The game saw the Atenean football machine in pretty shaky shape, with offense and defense being erratic. Passing wasn't as sharp as in previous games, and the Blue Booters had to shake off whatever jitters they were having. The first half ended without much fanfare, with the Ateneans obviously frustrated with their bad play.

The second half saw the Atenean defense tighten, with UE being constantly denied opportunities to strike. Any UE push was met by strong pressure defense, forcing bad attempts or forcing the ball into the hands of the Ateneo keeper. The Blue Booters then started taking over the game, brushing aside the rough play by the UE team.

Well into the second half, Roger Lastimado hit a bicycle kick that bounced into the goal, giving the Ateneans the lead. This was Lastimado's third goal in as many games.

Subsequent play saw the Blue Booters, buoyed by their goal, playing aggressively, keeping the ball on the UE side of the pitch. All of UE's attempts were made in vain as the Ateneo defense congealed. The Ateneans held on to their lead and prevailed, 1-0.

Kudos to Roger Lastimado for the goal, and to the rest of the Blue Booters for their good showing. Kudos also to the BBB, which led the crowd in cheering (I cannot say outdrummed the opposition, because the opposition had no drums). The revival of "Animo Ateneo" saw some beginnings today (not as the traditional Animo Yell, but as something integrated with Go Ateneo).

This was a painful loss for UE.




ANIMO ATENEO!
ONE BIG FIGHT!


Congratulations, Manny Pacquiao!

Rest in peace, Fr. Fritz Araneta, S.J.

great game yesterday!

more pics are available at fabilioh.com

http://www.fabilioh.com/index.php?cat=40

Hmmm... let me be honest... I do not like the way "a win is a win" comes out in the posts here. Our Blue Booters played their hearts well. It was not the fault of Siojo or anyone else that the game was out of synch at the start. Perhaps we just underestimated UE, and expected more from our team.

Nevertheless, let us be thankful for this 3rd straight win. We should be proud of these Blue Booters for they really play for Ateneo pride---that you can even see them sing the Song for Mary with us proudly is a much welcome sight.

Ika nga... I love you lang 'yan!

Yes, FEU is next. And they are not to be taken lightly. They just did an upset win over the San Beda hugot-squad of the suspended.

Great seeing Fr. Vic Salanga, SJ (President of the Loyola School of Theology) cheering beside us the San Miguel Boys Choir of atenean_blooded, Legal Eagle and Posterized. Sige na nga, si ikay din part ng boys choir. Hyukhyukhyukhyukhyuk!!!

FR. VIC SALANGA LOVES FOOTBALL. IT WAS FUN SEEING HIM AGAIN CHEERING FOR THE ATENEO TEAM.

God bless.

^^^I heard Fr. Salanga is now the team chaplain of the Blue Booters.

hey nice to hear that. now fr. vic can focus in other field like sports other than theology. this is his last term as the president of loyola school of theology. thanks and God bless.

about the uniforms, alam ko lahat ng sports adidas ang gamit pero ang football team gusto mizuno. congrats! ang galing ng football team.......sabi nga.....wala sa uniform.

Let me clarify my earlier post. It was not meant to blame Siojo and Reyes but rather the fact that it was the first time in the tournament that the 4 defenders had started together and it was obvious that they had not jelled yet.

Point well noted, jkad. Two more games in the 1st round! Animo Ateneo!

halftime score of the ateneo-FEU game: 2-0 in favor of ateneo!

Wuhooo!!!

After the 1st half, Ateneo 2 and FEU 0.

Kick that Ball!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to Mr. Jun Dalandan for the SMS update!

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10 minutes to go, Ateneo 3 - FEU 0.

Thanks to atenean_blooded and Mr. Jun Dalandan for the SMS update!!!

Kick that Ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mhon-Mhon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It's final!!! Score is 3-0!!!

This is our 4th straight win... UP, DLSU, UE, FEU!!! UST is next!!!

Kick that Ball!!!

Thanks to Mr. Jun Dalandan for sending the victory SMS!!!

Great win for Ateneo. Is it true that Lastimado scored 2 today? If so, 5 goals in 4 games na siya. I was able to catch the last 30 minutes of the game.

On other matters, we were not allowed to play the drums after some time. Apparently, we were disrupting classes.

^^^Sino nagpahinto? The people from the Loyola Schools or Grade School? So meaning, malakas lang talaga kayo pumalo.

I'm waiting for atenean_blooded's blow by blow article for the game. Wawa naman kasi kaming mga online 6th Man! Sagabal the work!

I think someone from the loyola schools. When I got there, they werent drumming anymore. Although I did hear them from the CTC at around 1 when I still had class

WOW! Galing ng Ateneo...Ang sarap talaga maging Atenista...

yun lang nga tahimik ang babbles ngayon. got to go may class pa ako, hehehe.

Comm:

I only caught the last goal.

As far as I remember, Roger didn't have any goals today (that's also per Orange, who says the second goal wasn't by Roger).

The Babble was stopped daw because there was a class taking a test.

I hope it was not a PEP Test.

Ahihihihi.


KEEP THE ANIMO SPIRIT ALIVE!

Good bounce back game for Ateneo today after Sunday's listless game against UE. Coach Ompong continued to experiment with his lineup--a luxury he can afford after Ateneo's blistering start to the season. He flooded the midfield and left only Lastimado up front. In the beginning, all of Ateneo's forays into FEU's zone were easily thwarted with Lastimado being the only target, and it looked like Coach's strategy would backfire. It turns out Roger was the only one we really needed. The first goal came from yet another Mortillore corner. The second from another lobbed ball by Ingles (?) which Roger, 2 FEU defenders and the FEU goalie all went up for. Roger jumped highest and the ball took an agonizingly long time to cross the goal line. No offense to reigning MVP Ozaeta but with 5 goals in 4 games so far, Roger's my MVP.

Coach Ompong experimented some more in the 2nd half but instead of inserting defense to protect the lead, he went to the offensive and switched to a 4-3-3 formation with Wilson-Tiongson and Cancio up front. This produced a third goal from Mickey Ingles. So far Coach has pressed all the correct buttons. Even backup goalie Madrona made a good accounting of himself and Ateneo kept its clean sheet record intact. No Goals Against in 4 games.

After the 3rd goal, Coach Ompong exhorted his boys to "continue performing, hwag mayabang" something that you'd never hear from Mr. Suave.

UST on Sunday, let's go for the sweep.

Go for the sweep! ANIMO ATENEO!! ONE BIG FIGHT!!!

I stand corrected.

hey, i heard will be facing UST this sunday, anong oras kaya?

Game this sunday is at 3... actually we will have two games... Men's vs UST and Women's vs FEU... at the same time!

photos for admu vs feu:

http://goateneo.blogspot.com

thanks.

Today's Game Results:
Women's:
DLSU def. UST - 3-1
FEU def. ADMU - 1-0

Men's:
DLSU def. UE - 4-1
FEU def. UP - 3-2
ADMU def. UST - 1-0

Standings:
Women's Standing After 1st Round:
DLSU - 3 - 1 - 0 = 10
UP - 2 - 1 - 1 = 7
UST - 2 - 1 - 1 = 7
FEU - 2 - 0 - 2 = 6
ADMU - 0 - 0 - 5 = 0

Men's Standing After 1st Round:
ADMU - 5 - 0 - 0 = 15
DLSU - 3 - 0 - 2 = 9
UST - 2 - 1 - 2 = 7
FEU - 2 - 1 - 2 = 7
UE - 1 - 1 - 3 = 4
UP - 0 - 1 - 4 = 1

The defending champion Ateneo de Manila Blue Booters completed a sweep of the first round of the UAAP Men's Football tournament with a 1-0 victory over last year's runner up, the UST booters. Today's goal came courtesy of Mickey Ingles, who kicked an awkward shot from the side which the UST goalie and defenders failed to deflect.

The first half was a see-saw battle for possession, with the Ateneans dominating ball possession and suffocating all of UST's attempts while managing to attempt at least six of their own. The second half saw UST raise their tempo and defense, but this failed in the face of the Ateneans' ball-handling and suffocating defense.

The referees were also determined to play the spoilers' role, calling stupid calls and missing out obvious ones. In my opinion, the most stupid was the one against Ateneo striker Roger Lastimado, who was given a yellow card for the heck of it, it seems. Lastimado has five points in five games, although he did not score in this match.

The Blue Booters are in familiar territory, with a two-win lead over the nearest contender, DLSU, whose Green Booters and Lady Booters scored twin kills today, with the Men's team defeating UE 2-1 and the Ladies defeating UST 3-1. The rebuilding Ateneo Lady Booters suffered their fifth straight setback, losing to FEU 1-0. The Ateneo Lady Booters are currently in last place.

The Ateneo Blue Booters, the winningest football team in the UAAP are seeking their third straight championship and aim to make history by bagging the first three-peat in UAAP Men's Football.


Kudos also to the Ateneo Blue Babble, who led the home crowd in outcheering the opposition this afternoon. The BBB also outdrummed the opposition despite being split between two simultaneous matches.

ANIMO ATENEO!
ONE BIG FIGHT!

i wasn't able to watch the whole game but thanks atenean-blooded for the info.

pics of both the women's and men's games are up at www.fabilioh.com

enjoy!

How sweet it is!!!!



A sweep for the first round... Keep the ANIMO alive!!! Wuhooo!!!

It was nice to see a big crowd in yesterday's game... Of course, the San Miguel Boys Choir was present (Legal Eagle, Joescoundrel, Posterized, true.blue, atenean_blooded)!!! Si miggzs, hataw sa snares. Hyukhyukhyukhyuk!!! And my heckler boss was also around to add to the ubiquitous remarks of our legendary alums!

On to the second round, Ateneans!!!!

Labo ng UBELT.com. Ateneo sweeps the 1st round with 5 wins and all they can write about is La Salle's 4-1 win over UE.

UBelt, as far as I remember, was put up by La Sallites.

.... Hey guys we've won all our first round games. It's not on;y a 3-peat that we should be going for but also
a sweep of all our games.


.... I thought UST played pretty rough last Sunday and those guys are bigger than our players.

.... But as always the heart of our players and the support of the BBB, not to mention the crowd, including some oldies, certainly made the difference.

.... Do come out nad support the TEAM !!!



ANIMO ATENEO !!!!

Wala pa bang 2nd round sked?

Ateneo UAAP Football Teams 2nd round schedule:

men's

thurs, feb 2, 3pm. vs. UP, Ocampo Field (field #2)
sun, feb 5, 1pm, vs UE, Erenchun Field (field #1)
wed, feb 8, 3pm, vs FEU, Ocampo Field (field #2)
sun, feb 12, 1pm, vs UST, Ocampo Field (field #2)
thurs, feb 16, 3pm, vs DLSU, Erenchun Field (field #1) [added: ba't weekday na naman????]

championship games
1st match sun, Feb 19
2nd match thurs, Feb 23

women's
wed, feb 1, 3pm, vs UP, Erenchun (#1)
thurs, feb 9, 3pm, vs UST, Erenchun (#1)
sun, feb 12, 3pm, vs DLSU, Erenchun (#1)
wed, feb 15, 3pm, vs FEU, Ocampo (#2)

Championship Games
1st match- sun, feb 19
2nd match, thurs, feb 23

Cancel all appoinments!!!!!!!!



Oh yes! A sweep would be very sweet!!!


Yes. They played rough. That UST #11... damn! But their other player, Ramadan, never heard the end of our heckling.


True. Hopefully, more and more Ateneans will come and join the fun of watching Football! To the Ateneo 6th Man (or 12th Man?)!!!


As always, KEEP THE ANIMO ALIVE!!!

Thanks for the info AC. Actually its a blessing that the La Salle game is on a weekday cos we get the crowd from the GS and college who would not normally go to the Sunday games.

UST played rough?

Tss.

Pakisabi sa referee, kung gusto niya ng rough, lumapit siya sa amin. Grrrr....


I like our chances. I hope we do even better in the second round.

You're right, jkad. As for us working slaves... we'll use our Atenean creativity once more in order to catch the game. Hyukhyukhyukhyuk!!!

Ateneo Lady Booters and UP Lady Booters, both nil. 15 minutes to go in the 1st half.

Go, BLUE EAGLE THE QUEEN!!!

Thanks Mr. Dalandan for the SMS.

Ateneo Lady Booters and UP Lady Booters, both nil. End of 1st half.

Go, BLUE EAGLE THE QUEEN!!!

Thanks Mr. Dalandan for the SMS.

Ateneo Lady Booters and UP Lady Booters, both nil. Draw!!!!!!!!!

Go, BLUE EAGLE THE QUEEN!!!

Thanks Mr. Dalandan for the SMS.

The Ateneo de Manila Blue Booters went on to their sixth straight victory, defeating UP and the football referees, 1-0, thanks to a free kick. I'm not sure who scored, since I arrived at the game pretty late. I just saw the ball hit the back of the UP net when I got to the field.

UP and the referees tried in vain to equalize. UP was awarded a dubious free kick, which Ateneo goalie Bellina ably caught. Happy birthday, goalie!

The BBB once again led the dominant home crowd in cheering.

The games are getting pretty violent. The Ateneans were on the receiving end of rough play again, which wasn't called by the 10th wonders of the world, UAAP football referees (the 9th being the UAAP basketball referees). It reached a point that Ateneo coach Ompong Merida was thrown out of the game. In later play, a UP spectator (or was he part of the coaching staff?) entered the playing area and shoved an Ateneo player.

The games are getting more intense.

And I second the call from a friend: Cancel all appointments. The games are starting to heat up.


ANIMO ATENEO!
ONE BIG FIGHT!

I think it was MVP Pat Ozeata who scored the free kick.

Ateneo won the battle of penalty kicks in what turned out to be a very chippy game. Our team played well and pretty much dominated possession but somehow our finishing touch abandoned us. The ref awarded us a somewhat dubious penalty kick which Pat Ozaeta converted. Ref, later tried to even it out by calling an equally dubious penalty kick for UP which Man-of-the-Match birthday boy Jerwin Belina coolly saved. #6 Peralta looked a little out of position at striker, though he was the one who won us the penalty kick. Looks like some of our guys will be missing the next game due to yellow cards (Roger ?) but at least JP Merida will be back.

Elsewhere in the league the De La Salle - San Beda Green ArcherRed Lioncoalition is starting to jell, demolishing UE 4-0.

it was indeed violent.

hope we can be more prudent and calm next time. God bless.

GO ATENEO!!!

Animo Ateneo.

Next stop, UE!!! Beat the WEH team on Sunday!!! ANIMO ATENEO!!!!!!



Of course... of course!!!



Good thing you did retaliate by entering the playing field as well. Remember what you did in the game against UST when I had to physically stop and shove you back to the audience area. Hyukhyukhyukhyuk!!!



Oh yes... cancel all appointments! Same friend ata nagsabi to us this line.

#6 Peralta was my classmate in high school. I think he is coming off an injury. He missed the whole first round because of the injury.

Yeah, he's coming off a slip-disk in his back. He's a potent striker, we just need him to get back in the groove. Galing yan.

Hats off to Jerwin. Good job, totoy!

The referee in the game sucked. I think he's to blame for the rough game. If he were more competent, none of the unneccesary rumbles would have occured. Dalawa talaga kalaban ng team, yung opposing side and the officials.

Support the team pa!

One big fight!

That explains why he seemed a step slow. I saw him play last year, in midfield, and I remembered him as the 'makulit' type of player.

Peralta made that penalty kick???

He's my classmate in Accounting. And we had our exam after his game. Kaya pala ayaw niya sabihin kung sino nagpanalo. Nyaha.

Ahhh.. A great game today, indeed.

Hats off to everyone, especially Mr. Goalie, the birthday boy.