Don’t count the Philippine U23 Azkals out just yet in the 26th Southeast Asian Games.
Substitute Joshua Beloya struck twice inside the final four minutes as the Philippines kept its flickering semifinal hopes alive after a pulsating 3-2 win over Laos Friday night at the Lebak Bulus Stadium in Jakarta.
JAKARTA—Blame it on fatigue. Long plane rides did the Philippine Under-23 Azkals in against Vietnam Thursday at the start of the 26th Southeast Asian Games football action. The Azkals failed to protect a 1-0 first-half edge and the Vietnamese rampaged the rest of the way for a 3-1 win. Team manager Dan Palami took the [...]
Under enormous second-half pressure, the Philippine Azkals crumbled and fell, 1-3, to Vietnam Wednesday night in a disappointing start to the country’s campaign at the 26th Southeast Asian Games here. After forging ahead with a late first-half goal from Manny Ott, the Azkals spent the better part of the second half defending and would have been dealt a ghastlier rout had it not been for the brilliant work of goalkeeper Roland Muller.
The Philippine Under-23 squad’s bid for a first medal in the Southeast Asian Games football competition in Indonesia suffered a blow after Fil-German midfielder Manny Ott ruled himself out of the event to search for a new club in Germany.
The Philippines landed in a “favorable” group in the Southeast Asian Games football competition next month with the Under-23 Azkals ending up in the company of 2009 losing finalist Vietnam and semifinalist Laos.
Nepal looms as the Philippine Azkals’ next opponent in a home match tentatively set October 11 at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.
Around this time time last year, the Philippine football team was reeling from the departure of a coach, who had taken on another job in India. The tournament they were preparing for was just three months away and it looked as though it would be just another one of those overseas trips that would end [...]
Their combined age is just three years older than the Philippine Azkals’ most senior member, but the heavy burden on their young shoulders doesn’t seem to bother Manny Ott and Jason de Jong.
The Philippine Azkals left for Kuwait last night confident of pushing the heavily favored Middle East team to the limit in their second-round World Cup Qualifying clash, despite losing two test matches against Bahrain’s Under-23 Olympic Team here.
MANAMA—Chieffy Caligdong continued his brilliant form, but it wasn’t enough to lift the travel-weary and short-handed Philippine Azkals past Bahrain’s Under-23 Olympic Team Saturday night before a loud crowd of 10,000 Filipinos at the National Stadium in Riffa. Bahrain won the exhibition match, 2-1, with Caligdong, the veteran winger from Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo accounting for [...]
The goals came as promised —and history was made.
Before a wet and festive Sunday crowd at Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, the Philippine Azkals gave a clinical display of attacking football to claim a 4-0 victory over Sri Lanka and advance to the second round of the 2014 Fifa World Cup Qualifying series for the first time in the country’s history.
MANILA—The different backgrounds hardly matter now for the Philippine Azkals. Chieffy Caligdong, a native of the football-loving town of Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo, showed he was up to the task as the only homegrown player in the starting lineup. And the rest of the side, a motley crew of players born and bred in Europe and [...]
It’s a match that means the world for a Philippine football team seeking a shot at history.
