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Imus multi-purpose field to be converted into sports hub

Published Dec 31, 2019 12:00 am
By Anthony Giron IMUS CITY, Cavite---Officials plan to convert the sprawling grandstand and multi-purpose field in Barangay Malagasang  into a sports hub following the successful staging of a Southeast Asian (SEA) Games football match in the area. "It was a dream come true and we are happy that a SEA Games event was played in our barangay (village). We thank the organizers for choosing the area for the event," said Cavite 3rd district Representative Alex L. Advincula, the innovator of the year-old Imus Grandstand and Multi-Purpose Oval and Sports Field. "Our intention now is to improve further and build up areas where other sports can be played for local, provincial, national, and international competitions," Advincula added. In a speech at a regional softball game opening ceremony at the site last summer, Advincula offered the Field to organizers for sports events and expressed a wish for the area to be a venue for national and international competitions. Advincula has a penchant for sports. His humble beginning as a garbage collector, then a firm janitor, and gravel and sand truck driver made him strive for education that molded him to be a successful businessman, public servant, and sportsman. "I and my family love to watch sports games. It was my wish even then to see the national and international games played in Imus," said Advincula, a softball player in his schooldays. The modern 3.7 hectare Grandstand and Multi-Purpose Sports Field has a track-and-field oval and a place for softball, baseball, and football games, with ground and tower lights, amenities, and greenery. Advincula, Mayor Emmanuel L. Maliksi, and other city officials led the construction of the sports area and the nearby Ospital ng Imus. The P200-million grandstand and oval sports area and the nearby P300,000 city government hospital was inaugurated on Oct. 12, 2018. The grandstand, oval, and field are being used by city residents, particularly the youth, for sports activities, gatherings, and as a promenade and leisure area.. The Field was used as the venue of the lone official SEA Games' football match between Indonesia and Laos on Dec. 5, and the practice game area of some participating football teams. Advincula, his son City Councilor Adrian Jay Advincula, City Councilor Hertito V. Monzon, and some other officials were among those who watched the game that Indonesia won, 4-0. The competing foreign football players and the organizers approved the venue and were happy with the preparations made for the game and the sight of the beautiful sunset and the sky in the area. Monzon, the chairman of the City Council ways and means committee,  said that  plans have been deliberated to convert the Malagasang oval and field into a sports hub. Monzon, also a sportsman, said that the plans include the putting up of an area for extreme sports games and the construction of a one-hectare indoor gymnasium for basketball, volleyball, and other sports. Advincula and the city administration are helping each other on the village sports hub conversion plan. "Yes, we will do it. When we say sports hub, all sports are in one area, it is indeed our plan to make it one," he told Manila Bulletin. Prime tourist destination Tagaytay City and Imus were co-hosts of the 30th biennial regional meet. Tagaytay hosted the skateboarding and BMX- cycling events at the new sites near the City Hall, while the underwater hockey games were held at the Ayala-Vermoza Sports Hub in Daanghari, Pasong Buaya, also in Imus.
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