Does anyone heard about philippines football?? i think everyone will think about they play dirty because they have many import players from europe if you have watch suzuki cup before, but it's not.. the palyers are all filipino, because they have a filipino parents. 40 years ago, many filipino decided to work abroad because of the corruption era of president marcos in philippines. many of them work abroad and live in europe and america. since philippines is a country that allow dual nationality in asia, so according to fifa rules, philippines never use naturalization or import players, they are all consider as filipino citizens. This is because they have at least one of their parent is filipino or having filipino nationality.. So they have the right to get philippines nationality. For example, raheem sterling, he born in jamaica to both jamaican parents and immigrated to united kingdom.. After they live in uk for few years, they have the right to get uk nationality.. So he is a naturalization or import player for england national football team.
philippines national football team, nickname 'Azkals', means street dog in tagalog, is the first asia national football team in history, founded in 1907, but this team never qualify to play in olympic, world cup and asia cup
the squad vs bahrain in world cup qualifying this month
philippines football team is the first football team in asia, founded in 1907, nickname is azkals, means street dog in english, but because filipino are just like to play basketball and ignore football, so they never qualify for asia cup, world cup and olympic. but since 2000, football association philippines started to recruit those oversea filipino to improve their national team and football development in philippines.. because their local players and football development are still bad, they need a lot of time to make it become better, here is the famous filipino players:
Neil etheridge, GK, born in 1990 in england to english father and filipino mother, youth career in fulham and a reserve keeper for mark scharwzer for many times in bpl, play for charlton now, played for england u16 before with teammates danny rose and victor moses
neil with his parents
roland muller, GK, born in 1988 in germany to german father and filipino mother, youth career in fc koln, play for swiss division 2 fc servette now
patrick deyto, GK, born in 1990 in philippines, the most talented local player recently
rob gier, DF, born in 1981 in england to english father and filipino mother, played for few clubs in english football league 2 and non league, play for ascot united now
simone rota, DF, born in 1984 in philippines and adopted by italian couple (same story with balotelli), played for italy u21 in 2005 mediterranean games
juan luis guirado, DF, born in 1979 in spain to spanish father and filipino mother
stephan palla, DF, born in 1989 in austria to hungarian father and filipino mother, he can choose to play either austria, hungary or philippines but chose to play for philippines, youth career in rapid vienna, played for austria u16, u18, u19 before
daisuke sato, DF, born in 1994 in philippines to japanese father and filipino mother, his father came to philippines for work and sent him back to japan when he was small, youth career in urawa red diamonds
kenshiro daniels, DF born in 1995 in usa to english father and filipino mother, his father, gary daniels, is a famous hollywood actor and retired kickboxer
misagh bahadoran, MF, born in 1987 in philippines to iranian father and filipino mother, his father is an iranian doctor who live in manila, he is a dentist, at the same time he also is a member of philippines national futsal team.. thus, filipino fans call him "lord misagh"
martin steuble, MF , born in 1988 in switzerland to swiss father and filipino mother, youth career in grasshopper
iain ramsay, MF, born in 1988 in australia to scottish father and filipino mother, he can choose to play either australia, scotland or philippines
manuel ott, MF, born in 1992 in germany to german father and filipino mother, youth career in Ingolstat 04
simon greatwich, MF, born in 1988 in england to english father and filipino mother
marwin angeles, MF, born in 1991 in italy to both filipino parents
luke woodland, MF, born in 1995 in uae to english father and filipino mother, youth career in bolton, he can choose to play either england, philippines or uae but he chose philippines, play for league one club oldham now, played for england u16 and u19 before
patrick reichelt, MF, born in 1988 in germany to german father and filipino mother
denis villanueva, MF, born in 1992 in italy to both filipino parents, youth career in lazio
kevin ingreso, MF, born in 1993 in germany to filipino father and german mother, youth career in hamburg sv
javier patino, FW, born in 1988 in spain to spanish father and filipino mother, play for chinese super league club henan jianye now
mark hartmann, FW, born in 1992 in england to english father and filipino mother, youth career in southampton
stephan schrock, MF, born in 1986 in germany to german father and filipino mother, a top midfielder in the team, youth career in SpVgg Greuther Fürth, played for bundesliga club hoffenheim and eintrach frankfurt before, played for germany u16, u19, u20 before with the famous player manuel nueur and elder bro kevin prince boateng
schrock together with his mother
schrock(3rd from left in 3rd row), nueur(gk in right) and boateng(5th from right in 2nd row) together in germany u19 in 2005
james younghusband(right) and phil younghusband(left), MF and FW, the most famous filipino football star players, james(1986) is elder bro and phil(1987) is youger bro, born in england to english father and filipino mother, both had youth career in chelsea from 2002 to 2007 and play for philippines since 2005.. phil younghusband is the new captain for this team
younger bro phil, he is not only a football player, he is also a very famous celebrity and model in the philippines
phil (3rd from right in front row) in chelsea reserve team during 06/07 season, together with coach brendan rodgers, scott sinclair and ryan bertrand, phil is the top scorer in chelsea reserve team
chelsea had just built a football school in the philippines in 2011, both of them are the person in charge of this school or soccer teacher
they also having a sad family background because both of their parents already deceased when they were young
younghusband brothers together with their mother and sister in 2010
younghusband brothers celebrated their sister's 2nd birthday in 2004, but few days later their father deceased due to lung cancer, while their mother deceased in 2011 due to heart attack
the coach.. thomas dooley, born in 1961 in germany to an US military father and german mother, he coach the philippines since 2014, he played for usa team in 1994 and 1998 world cup, he was a captain for usa team in 1998 world cup, he has been played for kaiselautern, schalke 04 and bayer leverkusen, won dundelisga, german cup and uefa cup before. he also became an assistant coach for jurgen klinsmann in usa team during 2011 and 2012
dooley in world cup 1994
captained the team in 1998 world cup
actually philippines has very good history in 1910 era, they won the gold medal in far east games, the games which take part by 3 countries, philippines, rep of china and japan, they also won 15-2 against japan in 1917, which is their biggest win record in history.
barcelona legend, Paulino Alcantara is also a filipino, his 200 goals was later broke by messi
he born in 1896 in philippines to spanish militiary father and filipino mother, because philippines was colonized by spain during that time, his father is a spanish militiary officer in philippines. during 1890, spanish bring in the football to philippines and people in philippines love football very much as it is their number one sport during that time.
but in 1898, spain started a war against usa but spain lost in the war and finally usa colonized the philippines since 1898, alcantara moved back to barcelona after 1898 but he back to philippines and played for the team in 1917, scored a goal in the match of 15-2 won against japan. but after that he left philippines and joined spain national team and catalonia.
after philippines colonized by usa, american bring in basketball to philippines and filipino started to forget about football, because they more prefer to play basketball.
philippines is a very successful asian team in asia basketball history, 5 times champion in asia cup, 4 times champion in asian games, played 7 times in olympics and played 5 times in world cup, they are the only asian team which won the first 3 places in basketball world cup (won 1954 world cup 3rd place)
in 2014, philippines qualified to play in basketball world cup, althought they were knocked out in group stage, but they having a very satisfied results against all the world class team.
philippines government started to pay attention to football since 2000, (why they pay attention? maybe because of usa makes a very good result in 2002 world cup and spain won 2008 european cup)
they started to call back the oversea players in 2002. in 2007, philippines dropped into 195 in fifa ranking, which is lowest ever in history, but after 2008, they qualified to play in suzuki cup and challenge cup all the times. many oversea players started to join this team in 2008, after they make a historical result in 2010 suzuki cup(qualified for semi final for the first time), many more players to come and join in 2011. during november 2011, philippines invited LA galaxy for a friendly match
phil younghusband admitted that he is so lucky to play with his favourite idol, david beckham
Those players who play for a club in europe cannot call back to play for suzuki cup because suzuki cup normally on december, it is not in fifa calendar so thats why the team still not enough to fight against thailand, vietnam and malaysia to win suzuki cup.. they almost qualify for 2015 asia cup but they lost to palestine in challenge cup final last year. but they can call all the players back to play in wc qualifier because it's international match day, some people said now it's the strongest ever philippines squad in history.
philippines government also built a new world class football stadium for the team:
Bulacan staidum, 20km away from manila, the team just played in here last week for world cup qualifying
This post has been edited by kexin: Aug 24 2015, 08:18 PM
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