By Romy Sabaldan

Davao City (4 October) -- There is a new way of doing things in the game of football, where to kick and where you would want the ball to land.

That's football when you are in the Philippines and Asia. Soccer in Europe to differentiate it from other man-to-man tackling games which are also called as football.

The easy-does-it training is possible in a color-coordinated shoes and soccer balls, a new trend in sports technology being introduced here for the first time by a tandem of an Australian and Indonesian sports innovators.

Louis Girard Papineau, Chief Executive Officer of Jogo Bonito Australia came to Davao City for the first time last week and introduced a color-coded boot glove. It comes in handy in one package with the soccer ball of similar color coding. The idea is to slide the boot glove to all sizes of soccer shoes and positions the soccer ball as a golfer positions his golf ball for a tee off. The difference, however, is seen in the three-sided (front, left and right) same-color contact in the soccer ball as compared to the lone frontal smacking of the golf ball.

He said he thought of the idea together with Paulus Japutra to add colors and excitement in the training of maintaining the basics of passing, dribbling and striking in football.

Together with some samples of the white-red-blue color-coordinated boot gloves and soccer balls, Papineau impressed an audience of young football players, coaches and sports writers at the Indonesian Consulate General office along Ecoland Drive last Friday.

A DVD showing the training they had conducted so far showed a near-perfect hitting of the targets which included a ring hang onto the top bar of the goal. The shot was made with a swipe from the blue side of the boot glove hitting the same color-coordinate of the ball.

The product presentation was made possible through the hosting of Consul General Ikon Mochamad Entjeng with the participation of top officials of the Davao Football Association (DFA) headed by Coach Dave Vilela.