Thursday, July 26, 2012
TWO Baguio–Benguet booters made it to the national training pool of the Teen Azkals recently.
Junel Bautista, a fourth year high school student from Benguet National High School and Randy Mangaoang, taking up engineering at the University of Baguio, were chosen from the Luzon tryout at University of the Philippines-Diliman.
The two were accompanied by four other players who did not make it to the national try out on August 4-12 at San Carlos, Negros Occidental, namely: Jeremiah Cerezo, Leoken Ti, Kenneth Mansueto and John Michael Abarico.
“They were taken in because of their physique and speed kahit mahiyain sila nung try-out,” said coach Ariston Bocalan of the Cordillera Goshenland Football Club.
The Teen Azkals are boys aged 17 years old and under and will be a training pool for the men’s national football team.
The two 17-year-old teeners played during the recently concluded CARAA and the Lingayen Palarong Pambansa where Bautista was a defender while Mangaoang was a utility.
Both Bautista and Mangaoang together with the four booters were part of the 34 shortlisted of Luzon-based teenage boys seeking to become members of the national Teen Azkals team and will train for the Asian Football Confederation Under-19 championships next year.
The 75 expected to converge in San Carlos City will be trimmed further to 25 for the AFC U-19 training pool.
“Luckily, out of the six na pinatryout natin may dalawang napili,” added CGFC’s Nestor Udan.
Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on July 26, 2012.
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