WITH five days to go before the much-awaited clash between the Philippine Football Team-Azkals and Mongolia for the 2012 AFC-Challenge Cup qualifying round on February 9 at Panaad Stadium, Negrenses James and Ryan Alonte Garrucho-Hall are set to arrive in Bacolod today while goalkeeper Neil Etheridge and defenders Ray Anthony Johnsson and Robert James Geir are expected to be in the city anytime tomorrow join the squad.
This was confirmed yesterday by team coordinating officer Patrick Ace Bright in an SMS message sent to Sun.Star-Bacolod.
The Hall siblings, accompanied by their Scottish father James Sr., will take part in the squad's practice with the hope of suiting up for the February 9 match.
Earlier, national coach Michael Hans Weiss said that at their young age, they are ready to be deployed and they can be a strong backbone for the team in the SEA Games.
Meanwhile, the arrival of Etheridge, Johnsson and Geir tomorrow will complete the squad's lineup.
Weiss also disclosed that the team is getting more and better players coming in. Fil-Danish booters Jerry Lucena and Dennis Cagara, who arrived Thursday in Manila to process their Philippine passports, are already in his list to possibly beef up the squad in future competitions. Both are expected to suit up for the team in the March 15 match in Mongolia.
Lucena, son of a Filipino father and a Dane mother, plays as defender and midfielder of Aarhus Gymnastikforening (AGF) in Danish Superliga while Cagara, born in Glostrup, Denmark to a Filipino father and a Danish mother, plays as a left-sided defender of a Danish professional football team, FC Nordsjælland.
On the other hand, team Mongolia is arriving Monday, January 7. (Jerome S. Galunan Jr.)
Published in the Sun.Star Bacolod newspaper on February 05, 2011.
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