CLOSE to 300 participants attended the online Second Professional Sports Summit on Saturday with the organizing Games and Amusements Board (GAB) securing full support from pro sports stakeholders
“The summit exceeded our expectations. During the start of the year when the pandemic started, the future of sports was very dark and with no hope in sight,” Chairman Abraham Khalil Mitra said.
“Who would have known at the end of the year and even amid the Covid-19 pandemic, that the GAB family would grow into having to welcome and embrace more members of its pro sports family,” he added.
The GAB held the inaugural summit in September last year at the Philippine International Convention Center with more than 600 participants from all over the world.
Saturday’s summit drew professional boxer Gerry Penalosa, Grandmaster, Eugene Torre and billiards greats Efren “Bata” Reyes and Django Bustamante.
Also present in the virtual summit were Philippine Football League Commissioner Koko Torre, Philippine Football Federation secretary general Atty. Edwin Gastanes, Premier Volleyball League head Ricky Palou, World Boxing Council (WBC) President Mauricio Sulaiman and WBCA Cares International chairman Jill Diamond.
The summit gathered professional athletes and organizations to gather their ideas and best practices related to the so-called new normal.