{"id":6336,"date":"2020-05-08T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T12:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:23:05","slug":"pff-football-philippines-sports-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pff-football-philippines-sports-betting","title":{"rendered":"PFF monitoring K League in hope of football restart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) is closely monitoring South Korea&#8217;s K League which kicked-off again earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Philippines.- The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) is closely monitoring South Korea&#8217;s K League to see whether safety protocols are sufficient to restart football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines strict lockdown measures have prevented any sport, including the Philippines Football League, from continuing during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the PFF is looking to see what does and doesn&#8217;t work in terms of safety with South Korea&#8217;s premier football division, the K League, which <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/k-league-south-korea-return\">kicked off on Friday (May 8)<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>PFF<\/em><\/strong> President Mariano Araneta told Inquirer: &#8220;I think the case of K-League gives us hope. That\u2019s why we really have to carefully study the safety measures they\u2019ll be putting in place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When we&#8217;re confident enough that we have a solid and safe plan in place, that\u2019s the time we can present it to the government to allow us to push through with the league.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) is closely monitoring South Korea&#8217;s K League which kicked-off again earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) is observing the K League's operational restart in South Korea to evaluate the efficacy of its implemented health and safety protocols. This assessment aims to inform the PFF's strategy for resuming the Philippines Football League amidst stringent COVID-19 lockdown measures. The PFF intends to leverage these learnings to develop a robust operational plan for governmental approval, ensuring regulatory compliance and stakeholder confidence.","focusai_entities":"Philippine Football Federation, PFF, K League, Philippines Football League, Mariano Araneta, Inquirer","focusai_location":"Philippines, South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"K League Protocol Efficacy","query":"What specific health and safety protocols implemented by the K League are being prioritized for evaluation by the PFF, and what are the key performance indicators for their efficacy in a professional sports operational context?"},{"label":"Regulatory Approval Process","query":"What are the anticipated governmental approval processes and potential regulatory hurdles the PFF expects to navigate when presenting its operational restart plan, drawing parallels to other regulated industries?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,16333,155],"tags":[4937,128,233],"class_list":["post-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-south-east-asia-news","category-sports-betting-news","tag-football","tag-philippines","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008210,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions\/777008210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}