PH U-21 football squad up vs tough teams in Brunei meet

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Under-21 (U-21) football team will be grinding it out with tough squads when the Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy (HBT) invitational kicks off on Friday.

The Filipino U-21 team is bracketed together with Singapore, Laos, Indonesia and Myanmar in Group A.

Host country Brunei is grouped together with Cambodia, Timor Leste, Vietnam and Malaysia in Group B.

“We only had about a month to practice and we're going up against teams who have been together for two years or so, it’s kinda tough,” said midfielder Marvin Angeles on the Philippine Azkals’ official website.

The U-21 team trained under their new coach, Serbian Zoran Dordevic, who arrived in the country a month ago.

Making up the team are:

Christopher Camcam
Paolo Pascual
Marwin Angeles
Marvin Angeles
Joshua Beloya
Jacques Van Bossche
Gabriel Borja
Jeremy James Theuer
Dwight Kevin Sendino
Alejandro Baldo Jr.
David Franz Pusing
Angelo Marasigan
Amani Manuel Aguinaldo
Joseph Andrew San Martin
Russel Anthony Pierson

This year’s HBT is allowing players over 21 year old to join the tournament, prompting the coaching staff to include Nestorio Margarse Jr., Jerry Barbaso, Ruben Doctora Jr. and Aaron Altich to the roster.

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