MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Azkals ended their 2019 Asian Cup campaign after dropping their final group stage game against Kyrgyzstan, 3-1, as Vitalig Lux scored a hat-trick on Wednesday, January 16, at the Al Maktoum Stadium in Dubai.
But even if the Philippine men's football team crashed to the bottom of Group C, Stephan Schrock netted in Philippines' first ever Asian Cup goal in the 80th minute.
Kyrgyzstan is still on track of advancing to the Round of 16 after finishing third in the group.
In the 24th minute, Vitalig Lux sent the Nationals into the doldrums when his shot found the back of the net thanks to an assist from Akhlidin Israilov.
Lux scored his second goal and doubled the lead in the 51st minute with an angled finish from Bekzhan Sagynbaev's assist in the center of the box.
The Kyrgyzstan striker sealed the win with a hat-trick as he capitalized on a rebound off the post in the 77th minute.
The entry of the Younghusband brothers added more firepower to the Azkals as Javier Patiño and Patrick Reichelt had chances to cut the deficit towards the end of the match.
Kyrgyzstan had a strong start to the match as it held most of the possession as the Philippines' backline had an off-day.
In the first half, the Azkals never established a clear threat in the attacking third and was running out of ideas on how to create chances. – Rappler.com
https://www.rappler.com/sports/by-sport/football/221161-asian-cup-results-philippines-kyrgyzstan-game-january-16-2019
We can recruit every European born pinoys and let them play for Flag and Country but still it is no matched for a homegrown talents when properly nurtured liked Vietnam and Thailand is doing right now. We all know mostly foreign born will play for us when they reached 26 - 30 yrs old and their mother country will not call them anymore. We are always second choice and that players are also second best in their countries. Add to the problem is there different languages and comes from different nations with different style of play and philosophy. Fans who doesn't know how to play football will only only appreciate the speed and dribbling ability of that players.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you care so much about what other countries think about us? Why is it so important to you? Everytime a foreigner is being interviewed by a Filipino journalist they always ask "What do you think of the Philippines?" You feel ashamed when Thais and Indonesians say negative things about our national team just because we do not have a lot of good home grown players? You talk like you really know why we had to recruit and reach out to Filipinos born in other countries to help our football become competitive. You would not even be in this blog right now if the Younghusbands, Schrocks or Etheridge did not happen. LOL the irony.
DeleteWorse part of the recruiting foreign-produced players concept is that we can't earn respect from other countries. Yes, we have now become a consistent SEA powerhouse and we finally debuted in the Asian Cup, which was an unimaginable dream 10 years ago, and it's all thanks to foreign-produced players. But so what? Nobody respect us. Whenever Azkals play, foreign broadcasters introduce us to their viewers like "A multinational troop, from its 23 men roster only a couple of players were born and trained in PH" ...."German, Spanish, English, Italian, Swedish, Australian, American, Japanese... wow it's weird to call this team the Philippines national team" ..."Philippines don't really have enough infrastructure or program to produce quality players themselves so they can't help but rely on foreign products" ....."They must appreciate millions of diasporas and dual citizenship policy" etc etc ...We had enough of this from neighboring SEA broadcasters and football fans, and now we are getting this kind of mockery from all around Asia. Is it really something we should be proud of ? Well at least i'm not. Even if we did better in this Asian Cup, i wouldn't have been excited or proud as no one would respect us.
ReplyDeleteThere you go again with "we did not earn respect with other countries." You really have a chip on your shoulder.
DeleteI think you were referring to what the Fox Sports presenters were saying. About our infrastructure for football or the lack thereof, were none of it true? It explains why we had to recruit Filipinos from overseas. What is the problem with the millions of diasporas and our dual citizenship policy? LOL. Where are you going with this? No one is mocking us. And if they did, so what? LOL.
Every sports teams have to go to "rebuilding process" at sometime. Powerhouse Germany's NT is currently undergoing this process for the last 2 yrs. and still not there yet. This, with all the German football teams, academies, clubs and etc., etc. The PFF does not have or will they invest on any local infrastructure to do this, but instead relying for a half Filipino version of Messi and Ronaldo to knock on their door, wanting to play for the Azkals. This event is purely NOT deterministic, rather stochastic. Just like winning the lotto. How can they rebuild with this strategy, and how many years. Impossible!
ReplyDeleteThe grassroots training and development is up to the PFF. That is their job. UFL or PFL clubs also have to help out in grassroots training by setting up a youth academy. I think out of all the existing PFF club only Kaya is doing this. The Younghusbands also have a football academy. Speaking of which, do you have kids? If yes, have you enrolled them in football academies in the country? If yes, good. If no, which is the likely answer based on your blabbering here, then LOL.
DeleteYou can also apply as Youth Technical Director to the PFF. They are currently searching for talented people who can help in the growth of football for future generations. Go now!
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Deleteinteresting article in a very popular german newspaper about Stephan Schroeck and future of Azkals .. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/asienmeisterschaft-vorbild-schroeck-1.4289104
ReplyDeletePhilippines is a basketball country and will always be. Football is a tactical game, you need wits , resilience, hard work and skills. Filipinos dont have that, they always like it easy, easy like baskeball. In basketball you dont use much brain, just shoot the rock. And this is the reason why philippines will never be good in other sports except boxing and basketball of course. Sad but true.
ReplyDeleteThis is the typical question, "Quantity vs Quality". A bunch of kids playing kick ball and random passing is NOT football. Once the PFF youth teams, ie. U23 and below, starts being competitive against our SEA neighbors, then we can say that there is a PFF grassroot training.
ReplyDeleteThis is the typical question, "Quantity vs Quality". A bunch of kids playing kick ball and random passing is NOT football. Once the PFF youth teams, ie. U23 and below, starts being competitive against our SEA neighbors, then we can say that there is a PFF grassroot training.
ReplyDeleteHow can our grassroots improved when the bulk of PFF budget ia almost on the Men's Senior Football side leaving a meager for the Youth teams. It is really a one sided affair for the PFF since the Miracle of Hanoi in 2010. If you don't feel the bias for our youth then it's either your stupid or a dumb fanatic.
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