- San Miguel-Philippines
: "This article is about the basketball team representing the Philippines. For the Philippine corporation, see
San Miguel Corporation . For thePhilippine Basketball Association team, seeSan Miguel Beermen ."Infobox Basketball club
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name =San Miguel Corporation
imagesize =100px
leagues =Philippine Basketball Association (1984-1985)
founded =1981
history =Northern Consolidated
1981-85
San Miguel Corporation
1985-86, 2005-present
arena =(none)
location =Philippines
colors =Blue, white and red
president =Manuel V. Pangilinan
coach =Chot Reyes
championships =2William Jones Cup s, 1 Asian Youth Basketball Championship, 1PBA Reinforced Conference Championship, 1 Southeast Asian Games gold medal, 1 Asian Basketball Conference Championship, 2 Sultan's Cups
website = http://www.sanmiguel.com.ph
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a_pattern_b=_thinwhitesides|a_body=0000FF|a_shorts=0000FF|a_pattern_s=_whitesidesSan Miguel-Philippines (1981-present) is a special Philippine select team formed to represent the country as a club team to compete internationally. The team was first formed as part of a national basketball program for the Philippines' best amateur players. San Miguel-Philippines also carried the names Northern Consolidated Cement (NCC) and San Miguel Beer (SMB). When playing as a national team, the team is simply called Team Philippines / Team Pilipinas. The Philippine national basketball team competes under the "San Miguel - Philippines" name when it participates in non-
FIBA orFIBA club tournaments.History
NCC Era
The first San Miguel-Philippines team was set up in the 1980s under the guidance of American coach
Ron Jacobs and with the support of Filipino businessman and sports fanatic Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco and theSan Miguel Corporation .Originally set up as part of a national program to keep Philippine basketball competitive on the international stage, the team was first composed of amateur Filipino stalwarts. The program, along with the creation of the Philippine Amateur Basketball League, sought to keep the amateur stars from joining the professional
Philippine Basketball Association and keep the Philippines competitive inFIBA basketball tournaments. (Prior to 1989, professionals were not allowed to participate inFIBA tournaments.) The players on the team were eventually allowed to turn pro when they had finished their stint with the team.The first San Miguel-Philippines team was mainly made up of American imports and Filipino-Americans which include Willie Pearson, Dennis Still, Jeff Moore and
National Basketball Association drafteeRicardo Brown . The team easily won the 4thWilliam Jones Cup championship in 1981 but failed to gain support among the Filipinos, due to most players in the squad were not Filipino players.Cojuangco, appointed basketball project director by the government, then set up a basketball program to promote Philippine basketball in the Asian region and in world basketball. In 1982, Jacobs led the San Miguel-Philippines, under-19 national team, to the Asian Youth Basketball Championships which include players like Leo Austria,
Jong Uichico ,Hector Calma , Louie Brill andSamboy Lim . The team beat China in the final at theAraneta Coliseum inManila .In 1984, Jacobs formed the second San Miguel-Philippines team to compete in the
Philippine Basketball Association . Jacobs retained Jeff Moore and Dennis Still from the first San Miguel-Philippines team, Hector Calma, Louie Brill and Samboy Lim from the under-19 team. The team now include American shooting maestroArthur Engelland and Filipino hotshotAllan Caidic , who joined the team in 1983.The team, known as the all-amateur Northern Consolidated Cement (NCC) guest team, competed in the 1984-1985 PBA season and eventually winning the 1985
PBA Reinforced Conference championship. The team went on to represent the Philippines and capturing the 1984 Asian Club Basketball Champions' Cup, the 1985William Jones Cup championship and represent the Asian region in the 1985 World Club Basketball Championship atGirona ,Spain as "San Miguel Beer".In 1985, the members of the Northern Consolidated Cement team also played for the
Philippine national basketball team . The NCC-powered national team won the1985 South East Asian Games and the 1985-1986FIBA Asia Championship . The team qualified for the 1986FIBA World Championship , but the team disbanded, due to the political crisis that led to the Philippine People Power Revolution. The team failed to compete in the World Championship.Post-NCC Era
After the fall of the Marcos dictatorship in
1986 , the NCC national team program was scrapped by theBasketball Association of the Philippines (BAP).In
1994 ,San Miguel Beermen (a club team in the PBA, coincidentally owned by the very sameSan Miguel Corporation that initiated the NCC/San Miguel-Philippines program), coached byNorman Black , won the 1994PBA All-Filipino Cup championship and earned the right to represent the country in the up comingAsian Games , held atHiroshima ,Japan . The national team composed of San Miguel players (the core of the team), loan PBA players (notablyAlvin Patrimonio andJohnny Abarrientos ) and amateur standouts (notablyMarlou Aquino ). The team, led by NCC veterans Allan Caidic and Hector Calma, went on to finished fourth with Caidic finishing as the Asian Games basketball tournament top scorer.PBA Era
Road to Beijing, 2008
2005
PBA appointed Vincent "Chot" Reyes to form an all-professional national team, supported and funded by the San Miguel Corporation, to represent the country in future international events. San Miguel-Philippines, as the team is called, went on to represent the country in the
FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2005 (finished Fifth), the Las VegasGlobal Hoop Summit (most exciting performing team), theWilliam Jones Cup (finished Third), and the 2005 Shell Rimula-Sultan Cup ofBrunei (Champion). The team was bannered byAsi Taulava ,Rommel Adducul , andRen-Ren Ritualo . Unfortunately, the Philippines was suspended by theInternational Basketball Federation (FIBA) due to political conflict between leaders of thePhilippine Olympic Committee (POC) and theBasketball Association of the Philippines (BAP).2006
San Miguel-Philippines finished sixth in the
William Jones Cup and fourth in the Al-Emadi International Basketball Tournament, held atDoha ,Qatar . The team is has recently played in a goodwill series against Lebanon and won the Shell Rimula-Sultan Cup title in Brunei for the second year in a row.2007
After the FIBA suspension was lifted in February
2007 , the team went to an intensive training in theUnited States training camp that was attended before byNBA players. During the said training trip,they also played some tune up games with someNCAA teams.Next stop for San Miguel-Philippines was the
FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2007 held in Terhan, Iran. They played mostly against Arab teams that have two imports while they played without an import. After playing 8 games in 8 days,they finished 4th place in the tourney, a creditable showing as all the other teams played with imports.Current Players
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Chot Reyes |assistants=flagicon|PHI Aboy Castro, flagicon|PHI Nash Racela
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Scout:|others=flagicon|USATim Cone , flagicon|USANorman Black , flagicon|PHIJong Uichico
flagicon|PHIBinky Favis |manager=flagicon|PHI
Robert Non
teamname=flagicon|PHISan Miguel-Philippines Notable players
*Original NCC team
**Allan Caidic
**Arthur Engelland
**Hector Calma
**Samboy Lim
**Jeff Moore
**Dennis Still
**Benjie Gutierrez
**Pido Jarencio
**Elmer Reyes
**Franz Pumaren
**Tonichi Yturri
**Alfie Almario
**Yves Dignadice
**Ricardo Brown
*San Miguel team
**Asi Taulava
**Ren-Ren Ritualo
**Romel Adducul ee also
*
Philippines men's national basketball team
*San Miguel Beermen External links
* [http://mypba.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1103 The NCC Basketball Team]
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