{"id":232992,"date":"2019-09-30T20:51:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T00:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=232992"},"modified":"2019-09-30T20:51:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T00:51:47","slug":"solon-seeks-to-ban-foreign-players-in-collegiate-sports-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/30\/solon-seeks-to-ban-foreign-players-in-collegiate-sports-leagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Solon seeks to ban foreign players in collegiate sports leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_232993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232993\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/15400914_346750962363350_7873464195487420450_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-232993\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/15400914_346750962363350_7873464195487420450_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/15400914_346750962363350_7873464195487420450_n-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/15400914_346750962363350_7873464195487420450_n-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-232993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romero noted that recruiting foreign players gives \u201cundue advantage\u201d to their collegiate teams, and the audience is merely watching a league dominated by foreign imports. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CongressmanMikeeRomero\/photos\/a.314381732266940\/346750962363350\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CongressmanMikeeRomero\/\">Congressman Mikee Romero\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; A party-list lawmaker at the House of Representatives filed on Monday a resolution seeking to prohibit all collegiate and university leagues from recruiting foreign players.<\/p>\n<p>In filing House Resolution 388, Deputy Speaker and 1-Pacman party-list Rep. Mikee Romero said recruiting non-Filipino citizens and foreign import players stops the growth and development of \u201chomegrown Filipino players\u201d and shortchanges the development of various sports programs in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis practice of bringing in non-Filipino and foreign import recruits does not help the development of any sport in the country, in fact, it is counter-productive as it stunts the growth and development of homegrown athletes,\u201d Romero said in the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhilippine colleges and universities who are in practice of recruiting and using non-Filipino and foreign import players are so engrossed in winning a championship for their schools that they do not anymore recruit players locally and instead go to African and American countries to find imported players,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Romero noted that recruiting foreign players gives \u201cundue advantage\u201d to their collegiate teams, and the audience is merely watching a league dominated by foreign imports.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker cited the last-place finish of Gilas Pilipinas in the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup as an example showing the lack of homegrown talents in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is imperative that the legislature enact the necessary measures that would stop and prohibit all collegiate and university leagues from recruiting, acquiring, and using non-Filipino citizens and foreign imports and players,\u201d Romero said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; A party-list lawmaker at the House of Representatives filed on Monday a resolution seeking to prohibit all collegiate and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":232993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-sports","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232994,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232992\/revisions\/232994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}