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Philippine Football

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Rds said:
I think football is more of a national issue. How many aoccer fields does the national government or local governments open up to the public? How can you stoke up interest when probably 90% of pinoys dont have access to soccer fields. Whereas you can setup a makeshift basketball half court almost anywhere.
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Giannis34GOD said:
Space issues... Most of good spaces will bought by "Landlords" to create malls or Housing for their business than create football fields...
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Rds said:
Yes. Also, while most other countries have parks. We rarely do, mostly only malls. I guess, the thought is parks are useless since they don't bring in money while malls do.
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Giannis34GOD said:
Yeah... Capitalist mindset of our government and those businessmen.. We can't blame them, Since money is always involve... Reason why basketball still the king sport here because it generates money for all sectors...
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I think football can still be played in our smaller spaces, judasmartel previously said this. You don't really need a pitch (the field) to get started. You can play it in the streets, I see kids play street football where I live. All you need is to set up a goal. Heck, we can play indoor football (in short, futsal) in our courts.

Football pitches are really mostly for training and games for professional teams.
 
Former nationaal team star Freddy Gonzalez is the new Azkals team manager.
 
Great to see the progress! Go Azkals!
 

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Last Sunday, our U17 girls got eliminated by drawing with SoKor. SoKor player made a takedown on our player, which freed up the SoKor goalscorer for the equalizer.

Yes, we were leading at the time.
 
Our men's football team are out of World Cup contention. Man. We took the lead. Should have parked the bus all the way.
 
Metta said:
Imo, a women's football league has more potential. Many here probably have no idea that women's football in the HS and college levels has some of the most attractive players. Even more than volleyball players. It's the sport of choice especially for the mestizas and popular ladies from the provinces. There was a time when the rosters of dlsu and admu looked like Star Circle batches. It doesn't have the stigma of womens basketball and seen as cool by our local colegialas. Add to that the hafus from Europe and the US.

When it comes to marketable players, this sport has potential.
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And we just got into the FIFA Women's World Cup, and we won a game there. That's really the time to capitalize for the women's football league.
 
It's nice to see Philippines beating ASEAN countries who are really obsess in football...
 
Azkals is eliminated and beaten by Thailand via aggregate..

Proud of the team.. A promising young team.. excited on the next window for the afc cup qualifiers
 
Silent Killer said:
Azkals is eliminated and beaten by Thailand via aggregate..

Proud of the team.. A promising young team.. excited on the next window for the afc cup qualifiers
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Too bad the only game I saw in full was that draw vs Myanmar. I'm used to seeing Premiere League style direct balls, counterpressing, and players with so much pace... then seeing your own national team play a Spanish style that values possesion even though they played like 600 back passes in that draw was really difficult to watch. It's a system that sort of takes away our Fil-Fors' natural advantages in size, but then the ASEAN teams are getting their part-foreigners and naturalized players too... so we really won't have an advantage if the guys aren't quick to pass and move with the ball which they were shockingly good at.
 
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