Philippines men's national football team

The Philippine national team at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

The Philippines national football team represents the w:Philippines in international football and has been playing at the international level as early as 1913.

Quotes

• "It's basically, we were like street dogs, looking for scraps, picking up scraps, looking for sponsors, asking for money to support the team, because we were staying in really bad places -- no support, no nothing, and we still fought, fought hard"
  • The national team player Alexander Borromeoo on the origin of the team's nickname "Azkals" (stylized form for the Filipino word askals or street dogs) to ABS-CBN News, "No name change for Azkals: Borromeo" (9 March 2012)
• "Basketball is so deeply ingrained in Filipino culture. It is a religion. That’s why what the Azkals are doing right now is remarkable."
  • Filipino journalist Cedelf Tupas to the South China Morning Post on the national team shortly after their first-ever AFC Asian Cup match. ["AFC Asian Cup: ‘half-breed’ Pilipinas Azkals symbolise what it means to be Filipino, says former AFC official" (8 January 2019) by Nazvi Careem

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Philippines men's national football team on Wikipedia