Global FC wins 3rd UFL Championship, to compete in AFC Cup 2017

MANILA, Philippines - GLOBAL FC made an outstanding comeback last Saturday night, April 16, as it won 3-1 against Ceres-La Salle Football Club and claimed the 2016 United Football League (UFL) Championship.

Congratulations! Global FC wins UFL 2016. Photo Courtesy: Mark Marte/Smile 8

Midfielder Misagh Bahadoran scored 2 goals for the team on the 21st and 56th minute, while Matthew Hartmann scored one other goal on the 24th minute. Ceres FC scored 1 goal. Bahadoran was also named Man of the Match.

GLOBAL FC which was founded in year 2000 and was described in AFC Quarterly’s July 2015 issue as “One of the leading sides in the Philippines and pioneers in football’s fast-growing development in the archipelago”, can now add in its long list of achievements 3 UFL League Championships for 2012, 2014 and now, 2016.

It was also the first Filipino Club to qualify for both the AFC President’s Cup in 2012 and the AFC Cup in 2015. And of late, because of the recent UFL 2016 Championship, the team also now has an automatic slot for the upcoming AFC Cup for 2017.

Coach Leigh Manson in an interview said, “the moment is a little bit of a buzz because winning the UFL Cup is great, but to know as well that we are going back to the AFC Cup is really, really exciting. That’s what we are really excited about, to know that we are going back to the AFC Cup, where the club belongs.”

Top 10 Passers: SLU grad tops April 2016 Real Estate Appraiser board exam

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) officially announced on Monday, April 18, the complete list of passers for April 2016 Real Estate Appraiser board exam. Brittany Aoas Sumagaysay, graduate of Saint Louis University (SLU) topped the 1,271 passers with 88.50 percent grade.

READ: 1,271 out of 3,794 pass April 2016 Real Estate Appraiser board exam

University of the East (UE)-Manila (Larrgie Carpio Lores), University of the Philippines (UP) - Diliman (Serafin Tiamzon Omana Jr.) and Xavier University (Jeno Abcede Un) ranked second with identical 87.50 percent rating.

Meanwhile, Jessica Labucay Fariñas also from UP-Diliman grabbed the third spot with 87.00 percent grade.

The successful examinees who garnered the ten (10) highest places in the April 2016 Real Estate Appraiser Licensure Examination are the following:

Top 10 Real Estate Appraiser Board Exam 2016

VIDEO: Duterte apologizes over rape remark; insists statement was not a joke

MANILA, Philippines- The tough-talking mayor of Davao City has broken his silence over his joke remark that has angered many netizens.

Rodrigo Duterte said he wasn’t joking when he made the rape remark. Screengrab from Youtube.

Presidential aspirant Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has issued an apology to Filipinos offended by his comment about the gang rape of Australian missionary Jaqueline Hamill during his campaign rally on April 12 at Amoranto Stadium in Quezon CIty.

"I am sorry to the Filipino people. It's my style. It's my mouth, I said it in the heat of anger but listen to the story behind. Wag kayong basta pa-ambak ambak yan,” Duterte said during an interview.


According to Duterte, his controversial statement which earned the ire of numerous Filipinos was not meant as a joke. He insisted that he said it out of sheer anger.

"It was not a joke, I said it in a narrative. I was not smiling. I was just talking plain sense narrative,” Duterte emphasized.

He added: “Yung pagsabi ko ng 'O, naunahan pa ang mayor', that is a bad incident. It was a bad remark. It wasn't a bad joke, it was not a joke. Talagang galit ako nung sinabi ko yun. Ganun ang mga lalaki pag ano. P***o, naunahan mo pa ako. That's a cliche. Ganun talaga. Ang mga gago ganun magsalita. Galit ako at kung mangyari pa ulit yung ganun, baka ganun ulit ang masabi ko.”

(When I said, “they even went first than mayor”, that is a bad incident. I’m really angry when I said that. That’s how men are. ***, you even went first. That’s a cliche. That’s really how it is. That’s how jerks talk. I’m angry and if something like that happens again, I might say the same thing.)

Hamill, a 36-year-old missionary from Sydney, Australia was one of the numerous “prayer warriors” hostaged by Federico Pugoy and other inmates inside Davao Metrodiscom way back in 1989. Hamill was gang-raped and killed while ministering inside the jail.

Duterte came under fire after making the remark: "T***a, sayang ito. Ang napasok sa isip ko, ni-rape nila. Pinagpilahan nila. Nagalit ako kasi ni-rape. Oo, isa rin yun. Napakaganda. Dapat ang mayor muna ang mauna.”

(***, it’s a waste. It came to my mind that they raped her. They gang-raped her. I got angry because they raped her. That’s one. She’s very beautiful. The mayor should have gone first.)


Despite the possibility of losing votes, Duterte said he’s willing to lose the presidency and stressed that he will not die if he does not become the president.

Women-party list Gabriela demanded that the PDP-Laban standard bearer apologize for his remark. However, Duterte said that they can’t make him apologize for something he did that was called for during the moment. --Mini, The Summit Express