Former Philippine women’s national football team manager Jeff Cheng is turning to Olympians as his next likely promising endeavor.

This, following his decision to end his tenure with the Filipinas he assumed in 2017.

The Filipino businessman has been a longtime backer of the Filipinas whom he helped prove themselves in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup highlighted by a historic victory over tournament co-host New Zealand.

With his full involvement in the Filipinas’ affairs coming to an end for now, Cheng is looking to concern himself with other national athletes, particularly Filipino Olympians who have yielded promising results despite limited funding in their Paris Games campaign.

“I think that’s always in the cards, so to speak. So now that I have more time [to do that], we’ll look first [and choose] somebody that we could help,” Cheng told Manila Bulletin.

“Sa akin naman, if somebody needs help and I can help, hindi naman natin ipagdadamot ‘yung pag tulong,” he said.

With Cheng’s departure, the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) has previously said it would refrain from relying on one individual for support though assured that the Filipinas will continue to receive enough help to recover from the former’s leaving further proving that every support counts when it comes to international success.

As Cheng directs his support to the next prospect, the co-owner of Women’s A-League’s Western Sydney Wanderers wants to make sure that decisions will move along beyond sharing the same objectives in order to attain success.

“When this thing happened, I think it was more of a difference in philosophy. And I guess there’s nobody who has the monopoly of a good idea. If they wanna try their idea, then fine. It’s not also healthy to have conflicts if you are in a team,” he said.

“I’m sure they [have] the same objectives as I do, but they have a different way of [doing] it. Sila naman ‘yung president,” he added.

“What we have done is built the right foundation. Just maybe continue the program since we have a very good [set of] staff, very good coaches. So sabi ko it’s up to them na, and I just hope they continue with it rather than a whole change of [coaching staff] kasi they’re there already. But if they decide to do so, that’s their prerogative.”