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Former Japanese coach of Azkals interested in acquiring Pinoys
by rick olivares

Takashi Morimoto is the President of Deren Sumida, a Mongolian football club who also moonlights as a football journalist. He first came to Manila last February to cover the AFC Challenge Cup qualifying match between the Philippines and Mongolia. And he came away mightily impressed.

Now Morimoto is in Manila to once more watch the Azkals play Kuwait in a match that could hold massive implications should the embattled home team pull through albeit miraculously.

Morimoto, who is Japanese, said that he became even more interested in the Azkals after seeing how Mongolians reacted to their 2-1 win in the Challenge Cup home leg of the Blue Wolves.

“Mongolians were angry at their team even if they won,” related Morimoto who flew in from Sweden where his Deren Sumida played in a tournament. “They said that the Filipinos had better skills and technique.”

Morimoto was also in conversation last May with former Philippine National Team head coach Sugao Kame who handled the team from 2002-2003. Kanbe, who is currently the technical director JEF United Chiba, said he is interested in getting Philippine players to play in Japan’s second division league for the next season.

Kanbe was also reportedly keenly following the exploits of Team Philippines. Said Morimoto, “Kanbe wishes that football in the Philippines was popular during his time in Manila.”

According to Morimoto, the nationals’ current head coach, Michael Weiss, has become also popular in Japan because the German also spent quite some time in Japan coaching. Weiss is also married to a Japanese woman.

“It’s very difficult,” commented Morimoto on the Azkals’ chances of beating Kuwait. “It’s difficult but not impossible. They have to score goals in the first half.”

The Azkals play Al Azraq at 7pm on the 28th of July at the Rizal Memorial Football Stadium.

Posted by Rick Olivares
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my guess its Angel Guirado who will be offered a contract.
 
drunkenwarg said:
From my opinion, no one said that they are unbeatable.. That they will qualify for the world cup... that they will crush every opponent they will face..
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A lot of mainstream journalists did, such as Mel Tiangco when she stated the azkals are world cup level.
 
raichu08 said:
A lot of mainstream journalists did, such as Mel Tiangco when she stated the azkals are world cup level.
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in fairness to mel and other anchors, they only reads what's on the idiot board. it's the fault of their researchers and writers.
 
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this is audience member should be banned.
 
hehehe coach weiss doesn't know how to handle critics, gets taste of some pinoy geniuses hehehe.

Weiss snaps at critics
BY BONG PEDRALVEZ

"SO, are you also questioning my decisions now?" German coach Michael Weiss snapped at this surprised writer as we tried to greet him on a rainy Tuesday afternoon at the Rizal Memorial Football Stadium pitch just before the Philippine Azkals started practice.

With his solid 6-foot-2 frame and sporting a black bull cap, black jacket and black shorts, the 45-year-old mentor struck an imposing and intimidating figure, indeed.

But once Weiss settled down, he explained his exasperation was not aimed at yours truly but at armchair critics and pundits who had tried to second-guess his moves in the nationals’ 0-3 loss to Kuwait in the first leg of the second round of the Asian World Cup qualifiers in Kuwait City last Saturday.

"These people keep questioning my decisions but they were not aware of the realities that forced us to make these decisions in Kuwait," Weiss said. "All they need to do is talk to me and I could have told them why but all they do is just criticize."

Some of these so-called football experts, he said, had questioned why he had not made any substitutions late in the match when it was apparent that some of his key players like Angel Guirado, who was at the receiving end of several vicious tackles, Chieffy Caligdong and Phil Younghusband were either tired or hurting.

"And who would you have me replace them with," he asked, adding his four other players on the bench were all strikers while (defender) Roel Gener was also injured.

"Had I done so, the score might have been easily 8-0. We were up against a superior squad which had been together for years but I have only had my team for six months, so we did what had to be done," he said.

"I have coached all over the world and have given my best to the Azkals, who have made great progress given the time we have had with them, and yet it isn’t even enough," added Weiss, who has had coaching stints with China’s Under-20 and Rwanda’s Under-17 national teams and in the J-League on top of internship with Real Madrid and Arsenal.

"Now I am beginning to understand the crab mentality in this country," he said, referring to the Filipinos’ nasty habit of bringing other people down whom they see rising in prominence or popularity.

"I am the coach and have to make the hard decisions. If you want to question my actions, approach me and I will explain why but just do not criticize until you know the reason why," the German coach said. "If you are not satisified, that’s fine but please don’t criticize just for the sake of criticizing.

"These people are not even part of the coaching circle where we discuss all our field decisions," he said. "If they were in my difficult shoes I wonder what they would have done."
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taken from http://www.malaya.com.ph/
 
b3lowzro said:
hehehe coach weiss doesn't know how to handle critics, gets taste of some pinoy geniuses hehehe.



taken from http://www.malaya.com.ph/
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Weiss snaps at critics
BY BONG PEDRALVEZ

"SO, are you also questioning my decisions now?" German coach Michael Weiss snapped at this surprised writer as we tried to greet him on a rainy Tuesday afternoon at the Rizal Memorial Football Stadium pitch just before the Philippine Azkals started practice.

With his solid 6-foot-2 frame and sporting a black bull cap, black jacket and black shorts, the 45-year-old mentor struck an imposing and intimidating figure, indeed.

But once Weiss settled down, he explained his exasperation was not aimed at yours truly but at armchair critics and pundits who had tried to second-guess his moves in the nationals’ 0-3 loss to Kuwait in the first leg of the second round of the Asian World Cup qualifiers in Kuwait City last Saturday.

"These people keep questioning my decisions but they were not aware of the realities that forced us to make these decisions in Kuwait," Weiss said. "All they need to do is talk to me and I could have told them why but all they do is just criticize."

Some of these so-called football experts, he said, had questioned why he had not made any substitutions late in the match when it was apparent that some of his key players like Angel Guirado, who was at the receiving end of several vicious tackles, Chieffy Caligdong and Phil Younghusband were either tired or hurting.

"And who would you have me replace them with," he asked, adding his four other players on the bench were all strikers while (defender) Roel Gener was also injured.

"Had I done so, the score might have been easily 8-0. We were up against a superior squad which had been together for years but I have only had my team for six months, so we did what had to be done," he said.

"I have coached all over the world and have given my best to the Azkals, who have made great progress given the time we have had with them, and yet it isn’t even enough," added Weiss, who has had coaching stints with China’s Under-20 and Rwanda’s Under-17 national teams and in the J-League on top of internship with Real Madrid and Arsenal.

"Now I am beginning to understand the crab mentality in this country," he said, referring to the Filipinos’ nasty habit of bringing other people down whom they see rising in prominence or popularity.

"I am the coach and have to make the hard decisions. If you want to question my actions, approach me and I will explain why but just do not criticize until you know the reason why," the German coach said. "If you are not satisified, that’s fine but please don’t criticize just for the sake of criticizing.

"These people are not even part of the coaching circle where we discuss all our field decisions," he said. "If they were in my difficult shoes I wonder what they would have done."
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Lol. The crabs got owned by Coach Weiss. :D:p
 
Azkals (Philippine National Football Team)
AZKALS Starting XI: Etheridge, Del Rosario, Borromeo, Gier, Jonsson, Caligdong, Ott, Schrock, James Y., Guirado, Phil Younghusband.

KUWAIT Starting XI: Ak Khaldi, Al Rashidi, Neda, Rashed, Al Qahtani, Al Ebrahim, Jumah, Al Ataiqi, Al Sulaiman, Al Enezi, Al Mutwa.
 
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GMA News
TIME-OUT: HALFTIME: Philippines 1 Kuwait 0. Stephan Schrock scored the 1st goal right at the end of the 1st half, 2 minutes into stoppage time. Philippines leads game, 1-0, but Kuwait leads series, 3-1 on aggregate.
 
2-1 Kuwait...all hopes of advancing are killed at the Philippines now have to score 5 more goals.
 
usausa said:
2-1 Kuwait...all hopes of advancing are killed at the Philippines now have to score 5 more goals.
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Sniff, sniff. I'm so pissed! Oh well, we lost to a better and stronger team. Hats off to Kuwait NT.
 
2-1 final...apparently the Azkals were getting a little physical, possibly a little chippy out of frustration at the end. Good game by them though they finally go to play a top notch Asian side...now we gotta just keep improving.
 
Sportsmanship

Sportsmanship

The 'dream run' ends. The Azkals don't have to sulk & whimper after this loss, they went toe-to-toe almost the entire first 60 minutes with one of the top teams in Asia.

I just don't appreciate the unsportsmanlike taunting of the Kuwait players. This is an international match, not some local/commercial league one, so I was expecting better sporstmanship. In basketball, if you have a huge lead and have the game pretty much in the books, you do two (2) things:

1 - You pretty much just let the game time pass (like how teams just wait for the shot-clock to run out before attempting a shot, or dribble the ball & not make another shot if the game clock is less than the shot clock).

2 - You do not showboat. You don't make slam dunks with fierce & anger, and taunt your already-fallen opponent.

I pretty much saw that in this match. I saw one of the strikers skip-hopping while handling the ball, one player went into the picture of an argument with the referee when he wasn't really concerned (and got a resounding "F*ck off" from the Pinoys, haha) Get real, Kuwait.. You played against a lesser-experienced team, and you are expected to win. I will laugh so hard when you squander your next round matches. Your behavior needs some adjusting, as you certainly don't want some top-tier team like Argentina or Brazil taunting you, right? :D
 
The team just needs to gain from this experience. If their training continues together with another blast of recruitment, we can place better 4 years from now.

This series just showed that we're not yet at mid-level.
 
My evaluation of the Azkals ...

My evaluation of the Azkals ...

Being a football fan having followed the Azkals since 2003, I believe that the lads have out performed the expectations of not only the fans in the Philippines but also the Asian Football Fans.

Who would have ever thought that the Philippines would be ranked 162 in the world instead of the lowly 195 that they were back a few years ago.

The recent success in the Under 23s and then in the Suzuki Cup - South East Asian tournament laid the foundations for a successful World Cup Qualifying Campaign.

It is through these tough times that the Philippines can learn and rise from their defeats. All of us basketball fans here in this forum all know the hardship and defeat that all the great NBA players went through before their success because it is through these hardships and defeats that people learn from and rise up to the bigger challenges in life. Some people like to call it the many "colours" of life, I like to use the analogy from the Jim Carey Movie: "Bruce Almighty", "God likes to paint in dark colours to highlight the light colours".

These lads can all hold their heads up high as they like the Uruguayans who won the Copa America and many other international footballers, these Filipinos, all played for the front of the shirt and not for the back.

Eventually, the Philippines will have a good enought squad to be able to reach the group stages of the Asian Football Confederation's Group Stages.

I believe this format is a lot better than back in 2001 when the AFC decided to allow all Asian nations to immediately compete in the Group Stages. Such a decision by the AFC was a total disaster as many small footballing nations in the Asia suddenly had to take on the might and power of many larger Asian footballing nations.

From memory, Philippines had Syria, Oman and Laos. Philippines was badly bruised from this tournament as they lost games by a large margin, in Damascus, Syria, the Syrians thumped the Philippines 12-0 and then in Oman the Philippines was defeated by more than 7 goals. Luckily, the two fixtures against Laos gave Philippine some hope however, this horrendous embarrasment really pushed the Philippine Football Federation to re-strategise the national team program.

Currently, through FIFA's "donation" to the Philippines, the PFF have been able to make a lot of progress, however, I am concerned that all their resources have been all placed in one basket: the senior national team.

Having lived in South America, and have assisted with the two schools with outstanding footballing programs, I know (like many football fans and analyst) the importance and necessity of a great or at least a good, junior/ grassroots program.

These programs are the life blood or supply line to the senior national team. If there is no progress in the grass roots whether it's under 12s or under 17s or under 20s, then in the future, the senior team will not be able to maintain it's recent success.

As I have been saying for the past 3 years since my experience in Uruguay, Filipinos can learn the "beautiful game" more quickly if they start playing indoor football (futsal) as there are MANY indoor basketball stadiums. Furthermore, the basketball court is the size that many Filipinos are accustomed to. However, if you put a Filipino who used to love basketball but has fallen in love with football in an enormous football field, they poor lad will find it hard to adjust.

Eventually, in 10-15 years time, if the PFF decide to also put their resources in the junior ranks, I can imagine the Philippines threatening the likes of Australia, Japan, Korea, Iran and other major Asian football nations.
 
was there live at Rizal. Kuwait was clearly in control all throughout the first half up until that absolute cracker by Schrock that put the Azkals up 1-0.

second half starts and we were going toe-to-toe with Kuwait in terms of shots on target. it really felt like we had a chance to score again. suddenly Kuwait go a man down but it never made any difference as our players were looking lazy defending and Kuwait was just impeccable with their counters. it was pretty much over when they drew level. the second goal was insult to injury. overall, whatever the Azkals lacked in skill quality... they made up for with a lot of "fight".

fuck all of them who think the Azkals are too showbiz and shit, they had no chance against Kuwait to begin with. this was supposed to be a walk in the park for Kuwait like how China, Uzbekistan, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia made short work of their 2nd round assignments. they did what they can, and that's something to be proud of.
 
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