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RP sees action in ASEAN futsal qualifiers
The Philippines seeks to duplicate the achievement it made back in 2007 when it sends a 12-man team to the AFC Futsal Championship 2010 Qualifiers-ASEAN Zone from February 20 to 25 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Featuring seven teams, the tournament serves as a qualifying event for the AFC Futsal Championship tournament proper to be hosted by Uzbekistan middle of this year with the Philippines hoping to make it to the main event for only the fourth time.
Sedigh
Completing the RP team to the ASEAN Zone Qualifying are Misagh Medina Bahadoran, Ricardo Batayola Bacite III, Bongbong Roxy Vestidas Dorlas, Alexander Elnar, Hamidreza Geshniziani, Jay-Ar Inventor, Navid Khorasani, Jerome Stefan Leung and Edward Mallari. The team departs for Jakarta on February 18 and will plunge into action two days later against Malaysia. Bracketed in Group A, the nationals next take on Vietnam on the 21st before winding up their elimination campaign against Cambodia on the 22nd. Group B is made up of Australia, Indonesia and Myanmar. The top two teams in their respective groups will advance to the crossover semifinals. The two finalists will earn berths to the AFC meet while the semis losers will fight for third place and the last ticket to Uzbekistan. The RP futsal team is competing in the qualifiers not only to land a place in the AFC tourney but also to earn a possible ticket to the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. âWe have all the chances to win in the Asian Games. We just have to give this team the chance to compete," said Sedigh, whose wards earlier failed to convince the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) to let them carry the countryâs colors in last yearâs Southeast Asian Games in Laos. - GMANews.TV
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