I woke up early today and guess what I just read? Weiss is eyeing two teenagers who are youth level for bundesliga clubs. This is just great news! I hope they can start playing as soon as possible. Given their mother clubs are in the bundesliga I would assume that they play better than most of our caps.
Azkals - Philippine Football
Let Us Talk About the Azkals Here!
-
Posted 1 year ago #
-
Good news, but not an assurance. Remember, James and Phil Younghusband used to be in the English Premier League. EPL is much more competitive than Bundesliga.
Making football known in the Philippines.Posted 1 year ago # -
2 Fil-Germans eyed for Azkals
MANILA, Philippines — The tryouts for the Philippine football team in Germany has yet to start, but coach Hans Michael Weiss has already spotted two promising Filipino-Germans who could boost the team’s bid in future international tournaments, including their looming World Cup qualifying match against Sri Lanka.
The 46-year-old coach will be working despite the Holy Week break as he scheduled a two-day camp beginning Saturday before conducting the tryouts on Monday in Nagold, a town in southwestern Germany.
“(There are) two interesting players who are now trying to present themselves,” Weiss told the Bulletin in an e-mail yesterday.
The German coach was referring to Kevin Ingreso, 18, and Brian Hoffman, 19. Ingreso plays as an attacking midfielder for Hamburger SV (Sport-Verein) Under-19 squad while Hoffman comes from the youth academy in VFB (Verein für Bewegungsspiele) Stuttgart, which plays in Bundesliga.
The 5-foot-10 Ingreso has scored four goals in 21 games he played in North Regionaliga under Hamburger SV second team and U-19 Bundesliga North/Northeast.
Earlier this month, a similar Azkals tryouts in the United States, conducted by Azkals skipper Aly Borromeo and defender Anton Del Rosario, drew 37 aspirants.
To prepare for their home-and-away World Cup qualifying series which begins June 29 in Colombo, the Azkals will camp out in Germany in the second week of June.
“The Azkals camp will be held in Duren on the Dutch border near Cologne,” Weiss said.
Meanwhile, the Philippine Football Federation is eyeing the PhilSports Arena in Pasig City as a new site for the construction of a football pitch which FIFA will finance through a $500,000 (P21.7 million) grant.
PFF chief Mariano “Nonong” Araneta Jr. had earlier proposed to FIFA that the pitch be built in the parcel of land in Parañaque City which was donated by El Shaddai’s charismatic leader Bro. Mike Velarde.
But FIFA officials Jeysing Muthia and Markus Keller inspected the site two weeks ago and were not too sold to the idea of building the pitch too close to the airport.
Source: Manila Bulletin
Making football known in the Philippines.Posted 1 year ago # -
Just PM Paul Weiler and he told me that they are going to upload videos in youtube from the Under 20 tourney in Germany. If i'm not mistaken, the team we have is composed of foreign based filipinos :) . I don't like the term half-blood or half-pinoy :)
Posted 1 year ago # -
The German system is I think better than the English based on their recent success internationally.
Guys, beware of Paul Weiler. Here is why http://www.azkals.com/topic/paul-weiler-is-he-a-god-or-a-fraud#post-792
I know PW is doing his own way to help Philippine football, but sometimes his way is legally not right. Perhaps this is another topic.
Making football known in the Philippines.Posted 1 year ago # -
I've seen several forums or articles about the credibility of Mr. Weiler. But as far as I'm concern, there's a proper place for those type of accusations.
We have a governing body who's probably interested to hear about those cases since PW is working closely with Mr. Palami.
This one is really interesting.. :)
Posted 1 year ago # -
Here's an interesting video. Mr. D. Palami with Paul Weiler and European based Azkals.
Posted 1 year ago # -
any update on these two teenagers and whether they might be joining the squad?
Posted 9 months ago #
