UNIVERSITY of Santo Tomas’ David Basa became the first homegrown talent to be chosen to join the national under-23 football squad seeing action in the 26th Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia this November.
National coach Hans Michael Weiss told Basa that he’s going to join the Jakarta-bound squad after practice last Thursday at the newly renovated pitch of the Rizal Memorial Track Football Stadium.
Basa will join Fil-Dutch midfielder Jason de Jong, who wanted to rejoin the Philippine Azkals after he was fired by Indonesian pro football club Persiba Balikpapan for a contract violation with the Superleague club in Jakarta, but was instead inserted into the 23-under national team.
The 22-year-old Basa, a defensive whiz, saw action for the Philippine Azkals national football team during the group stage of the 2013 Asian Football Confederation Challenge Cup qualifiers in Myanmar.
Weiss has yet to decide on the final composition of the Azkals, who will play Sri Lanka in their first home-and-away match for the World Cup qualifiers.
Weiss is in the midst of forming two teams, with the younger squad making up the national under-23 team to the SEA Games.
The German coach said he’s having a difficult time choosing the players, who will suit up for the SEA Games in November. Weiss has set a modest goal of winning a bronze in the SEAG. Peter Atencio
Manila Standard Today
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defensive whiz??????if basa will really join NT....NT selection really sucks......anu b yan...anu pa ang kwenta ng under 23 tourney kung iyan ang mababasa sa news....wala nga sa news kung sinu mapipili sanagchampion at runner up...ang talunang team pa may nakuha...mahiya naman kayo....defensive whiz kuno???
ReplyDeletepanu naman si tacusalme,soriano,leonora at unabia?...dadaan pa ba sila sa butas ng karayom para mkapasok sa team?..
ReplyDeletewalang budget yung mga local players na mag punta sa manila.
ReplyDeletehambala pa..it only shows how bias ang pag select ngmga player for the NT...maraming mga magaling na players sa vismin region..especialy from NOFA,IFA...especialy tacusalme, who just recently won the best defender in suzuki the u-23...must deserving xa...in my opinion...=)
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