Today is not that day
The Philippine men’s national under-23 football team drew its first game in the AFF U-23 Championship in Phnom Penh, Cambodia against Timor-Leste on Valentine’s Day,...
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PH MALDITAS: From nowhere to the World Cup
After the Philippine Women’s National Football Team (PWNFT) bowed to powerhouse Korea Republic in the semifinals of the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup in Pune,...
Read morePlayers’ attitude, motivation boost underdog Philippine team
Three days before they take on Timor Leste to open their campaign in the 2022 AFF U-23 Youth Championship in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, an undermanned...
Read moreChin up, Malditas!
We have seen this scenario in so many movies before. A team of underdogs fighting the biggest, more famous and heavy favorites of the tournament....
Read moreMore than a historic WC spot
The Philippine Women’s National Football Team, which I will probably call the Malditas for as long as possible, is on course to securing a possible...
Read moreAzkals eye ‘friendlies,’ camp in Europe; good luck Malditas!
With the whole country practically experiencing a surge of new COVID cases in the past few weeks and the subsequent upgrade to Alert Level 3,...
Read moreMaking the most out of a phone call
Last December 28, Marco Casambre, a left back for local football club and Copa Paulino Alcantara champ Kaya FC Iloilo, received a call from an...
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Of Wonder Boy and EJ
If not for the pandemic, things could have been probably better for Carl Jammes Martin and for the rest of us. Martin, fondly called the...
Read moreNew team, new year, same goals
I got to know Daisuke Sato way way back when he first played for Global FC in the old domestic league in the country when...
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That mighty bark and bite
By now, much has been said on the Philippine Azkals’ failure to go beyond the group stage of the 2020 AFF Suzuki Cup in Singapore....
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The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) on Tuesday said satellite images showed new traces of oil slick in Verde Island Passage,...
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The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines is anticipating two million air travelers going to and from various provinces starting...
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The “Empowering Voices” special series featured tenured female legislators from different regions of the Philippines, including the National Capital Region,...
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Although several hundred miles away from the country’s capital, the regions in Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Davao Region,...
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Nerves are rising yet again in East Asia after North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast...
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