We are used to cheering our hearts out for our favorite teams, scream boo’s at our bitter rivals, celebrate whenever we reach victories and mourn with the teams in heartbreaking losses.
There was a tangible sense of easy optimism as pizza slices, glasses of Coke and good-natured trash-talking were being passed around by some of the biggest names of today’s football scene.
It’s only been just a year when Philippine football took a one-eighty from being one of the most unnoticed and unappreciated sports in the country to being the most watched and most followed.
This whirlwind rise of the sport took a step further when North American major league football team LA Galaxy visited Manila recently as part of its Asia-Pacific promotional tour. The team, which was led by no other than English football superstar David Beckham and the US national football team’s former captain Landon Donovan, went against our very own Philippine Azkals in a friendly match dubbed as the Dream Cup.
The Azkals may have trailed behind with a final score of 6-1 in favor of the LA Galaxy but nonetheless, with major league football players taking on our own footballers on Philippine soil, it was undeniably a good day for Philippine football once again.
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With whatever little voice I could muster, I spoke into the microphone of a television reporter and told her of a rockin’ Rizal Memorial Coliseum that cheered fanatically as the country’s beloved Azkals made history by making it to the second round of the World Cup qualifiers. I told her of the booming roar that [...]
