{"id":314649,"date":"2019-12-24T06:04:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T20:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=314649"},"modified":"2019-12-24T06:04:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T20:04:20","slug":"kanoa-fc-shares-holiday-spirit-to-chc-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kanoa-fc-shares-holiday-spirit-to-chc-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanoa FC shares holiday spirit to CHC patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_314650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314650\" style=\"width: 529px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/kanoapix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314650\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-314650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kanoa Football Club\u2019s Keziah Manabat hands a gift to a patient during the group\u2019s visit at the Commonwealth Health Center\u2019s Dialysis Center last Saturday. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kanoa Football Club celebrated a very successful 2019 season by sharing gifts to patients at the Commonwealth Health Center\u2019s Dialysis Center last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Members and officials of the club\u2019s boys U15 and U18 teams and girls U16 squads sang Christmas carols and then distributed gift packages to patients and the center\u2019s staff nurses.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Mariana Islands Football Association president Jerry Tan joined the Kanoa FC in their visit at the dialysis center and praised the players for stepping up not only on the field, but off the pitch as well.<\/p>\n<p>Kanoa Football Club president Merlie Tolentino, on the other hand, said the visit and gift giving to the dialysis center\u2019s patients is the group\u2019s way of saying thank you for a very fruitful season and encouraging their players, especially the young ones, to reach out to people who need help and support.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-314649 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kanoa-fc-shares-holiday-spirit-to-chc-patients\/kanoa-pasa-pix-3\/'>kanoa-pasa-pix-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-314651'>\n\t\t\t\tKanoa Football Club players and officials and Northern Mariana Islands Football Association president Jerry Tan, left, are all smiles after handing gifts and singing Christmas carols to patients at the Commonwealth Health Center\u2019s Dialysis Center. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kanoa-fc-shares-holiday-spirit-to-chc-patients\/kanoa-pasa-pix1\/'>kanoa-pasa-pix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-314652'>\n\t\t\t\tKanoa Football Club players and officials sing Christmas carols to patients at the Commonwealth Health Center\u2019s Dialysis Center last Saturday. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kanoa-fc-shares-holiday-spirit-to-chc-patients\/kanoa-pasa-pix2\/'>kanoa-pasa-pix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-314653'>\n\t\t\t\tCommonwealth Health Center\u2019s Dialysis Center nurses pose with Kanoa Football Club players and officials and Northern Mariana Islands Football Association president Jerry Tan, fifth left, after receiving gifts from the visiting group. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Tolentino added that the visit and Christmas caroling at the dialysis center is consistent with Asian Football Confederation Social Responsibility Committee\u2019s aspiration to give back to the community. The Kanoa FC president is a member of the AFC Social Responsibility Committee.<\/p>\n<p>AFC president Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, during the meeting of the committee earlier this year, emphasized that football can not only be a sport, but also a force to bring good and hope to so many people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinging Christmas carols for the people in the dialysis center was a new experience for us, soccer players. It definitely put us on an emotional roller coaster. Some of us even shed tears at the end,\u201d said Ericka Santiago, a member of Kanoa\u2019s girls U16 team.<\/p>\n<p>The club was the first group to visit, sing, and personally hand gifts to patients at the facility this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing their smiles when we sang and gave them the gifts was so heartwarming. This encounter we had with the patients made us grateful that we are all able to enjoy the holidays in our own homes and with our families,\u201d Santiago said.<\/p>\n<p>One patient commented they looked forward to visitors at the center, especially at this time of the year. He added that he was glad to see young people taking time to visit them and he was surprised to even receive gifts from the players.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kanoa FC will also visit and sing Christmas carols at the Man\u2019amko Center this Friday at 10am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanoa Football Club celebrated a very successful 2019 season by sharing gifts to patients at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":308649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-314649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-chc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}