Younghusbands back in Azkals lineup for Middle East Camp

5:46 pm | Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

James (left) and Phil (right) Younghusband. Photo by August Dela Cruz

MANILA, Philippines – After missing the recently concluded Philippine Football Peace Cup, Phil and James Younghusband are back with the men’s National Football team for its coming Middle East Camp.

The Fil-British brothers, whom the Philippine Football Federation didn’t include in the lineup the last time out citing “economic and non-economic” reasons, will join the Azkals as they face Bahrain and Kuwait in a pair of international friendlies set on October 7-11.

Expected to lead the Azkals along with the Younghusbands are PH squad fixture Chieffy Caligdong, Peace Cup Golden Boot awardee and MVP Denis Wolf and Angel and Juan Guirado.

The Philippines, which ended its 99-year international title drought, will again miss the services of Neil Etheridge but hoping to continue his good run is Eduard Sacapano, who almost had a clean sheet in the Peace Cup.

The Middle East Camp is also part of the Azkals preparations for the upcoming AFF Suzuki Cup, which kicks off on November 24.

Also part of the line-up released by the PFF, are Ian Araneta, Marwin Angeles, Demetrius Omphroy and Patrick Reichelt, both riding high after a stellar Peace Cup stint, Misagh Bahadoran, Jeffrey Christiaens, Rob Gier, Jason de Jong, Fil-Spanish Carli de Murga and Ray Jonsson.

Rounding up the 26-man field, are Dennis Cagara, OJ Porteria, Roland Muller, Paul Mulders, Matthew Uy, Ref Cuaresma, Andres Gonzales, Nestorio Margarse and Jerry Lucena.

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Platypus09

I hope that they will just concentrate on playing and stay a little bit longer.

I have this feeling that they will be at peace for now, but wait for their upcoming stir and brouhaha in the next future within the team, perhaps next year.

They will use all kinds of stuff to pressure some persons to give in and demand what they can get.

Good that they are back though. Hopefully, they can pull it off with the group.

And the other team members hopefully can work with them better. Sometimes, depending too much on Younghusbands heavily may not be a good idea while playing who might not deliver as expected.

The coach needs to look into these things.
concern_pinoy_citizen

I hope that these Younghusbands brothers learned their lesson. Don’t be swell headed!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000652271765 Mildred Gatungay Chua

what lesson? they don’t need to be members of the azkals. they have a very lucrative contract with meralco sparks and mvp. philippine azkals canot match what pangilinaqn is paying them. they are volunteering to play for the azkals out of love for philippine football. the azkals need them more than they need the azkals. the peace cup was an invitational with weaker asian teams. in the middle east, they will come up against national sides who are powerhouses in Asia. in the suzuki cup, they will play against thailand, indonesia. vietnam, cambodia, laos, all of who are better than the azkals until recentle. indonesia, malaysia and vietnam could have beaten the phil, azkals side who played in the peace cup.

PHtaxpayer

“the azkals need them more than they need the azkals.” – not true. if you are not in the PH team you are just a second-rate copy cat! LOL
leubas

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