azkals !!!!!!

last night, i watched our team draw the initially dominating myanmar team during the suzuki cup...

here's our cute, 6'3" goalie neil ethridge as he gets to the ball...

i must say, what a good looking team we have!!! from what i'm picking up from the commentators, a lot of them are from the UK... perhaps with filipina mums?

here are highlights from the game that made them famous... the li'l team beating the defending champs! (check out our cute team)

the vietnamese coach was such a sore loser...

and i quote:

"Football is not this, football is not putting eight players in front of the area with no offensive system...

...If they think they can win the championship bsed on that then poor football. If the Philippines think they can win playing that way then my dear, poor, poor football in this region."

read the whole article here.

here's the coach refusing to shake the hand of our (cuter and better-dressed) coach.

PFFFFFT!

with the draw with myanmar last night, we move on to the semis!

usually, semi-finals games are home-and-away... but it seems like we don't have a decent stadium to host ours here.

We don't meet the FIFA standards... so looks like the games on Dec 16 and 19 will be away-and-away.

SAD!

read more about it here.

i thought it'll be in panaad stadium in bacolod?

we'll know soon enough.

BUT i must say, it's really great that football is finally gaining some momentum here. we belong to football, and not basketball.

AND it's also so heartwarming to watch the game and route for, yes, your OWN team!

Go Philippines!