CLARK FREEPORT — The Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (Phisgoc) said that while the formal opening of the 30th Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) is slated on Nov. 30, some competitions are to be held as early as Nov. 22.
This, even as Phisgoc officials held last Saturday a “pep rally” to motivate the workforce for successful hosting of the coming 11-nation SEAG.
House Speaker and Phisgoc chairman Alan Peter Cayetano told 527 workforce members to “work hard and come up with their best effort for the staging of the games.”
The 527 members, mostly volunteers, are to be deployed in various venues in Metro Manila, Southern Luzon, Subic, and New Clark City in Capas, Tarlac.
“Kung ano ang ating itatanim, yun ang ating aanihin. We worked so hard for more than a year, itanim po natin itong SEA Games and the coming years and decades aanihin ng ating mga young athletes at next generation ito,” Cayetano said.
The opening ceremony of the SEAG is set Nov. 30 at the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan and will run until Dec. 11. The closing ceremony is slated at New Clark City.
Phisgoc organizers said, however, that the games will begin much earlier with polo scheduled to start on Nov. 22 while men’s football, netball and floorball will kick off Nov. 25.
“We appreciate your work. This (pep rally) is to celebrate you. We are all part of history,” Phisgoc chief operating officer Ramon Suzara told the volunteers.
