The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) has released the 23-man roster for the Azkals’ upcoming matches against China and Tajikistan in June.<\/p>\n
Phil and James Younghusband lead the list of locally based players, while Javier Pati\u00f1o and Daisuke Sato are the overseas-based call-ups.<\/p>\n
A notable omission in the list is England-based goalkeeper Neil Etheridge.<\/p>\n
Head coach Thomas Dooley confirmed to CNN Philippines<\/em><\/a> that Patrick Deyto will man the goalposts in Etheridge’s\u00a0absence.<\/p>\n The Philippines will first face China in an international friendly on 7 June in Guangzhou, China, before challenging Tajikistan in the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 Qualifiers on 13 June.<\/p>\n Philippines’ 23-man squad<\/strong><\/p>\n Goalkeeper<\/strong>:\u00a0Nicholas O’Donnell (Global Cebu),\u00a0Patrick Deyto (Global Cebu),\u00a0Nathanael Villanueva (Meralco Manila)<\/p>\n Defenders:<\/strong>\u00a0Jim Munoz (Ceres Negros),\u00a0Daisuke Sato (Iasi), Amani Aguinaldo (Global Cebu),\u00a0Jeffrey Christiaens (Ceres Negros),\u00a0Kenshiro Daniels (Kaya FC-Makati),\u00a0Camelo Tacusalme (JPV Marikina)<\/p>\n Midfielders:<\/strong>\u00a0Luke Woodland (Ceres Negros),\u00a0Iain Ramsay (Ceres Negros),\u00a0Dennis Villanueva (Global Cebu),\u00a0Fitch Arboleda (Stallion Laguna),\u00a0Hikaru Minegishi (Global Cebu),\u00a0Antonio Ugarte (Kaya FC-Makati),\u00a0James Younghusband (Meralco Manila),\u00a0Kevin Ingreso (Ceres Negros),\u00a0Manuel Ott (Ceres Negros),\u00a0Dominic Liam Del Rosario (Ilocos United)<\/p>\n Forwards: <\/strong>Misagh Bahadoran (Global Cebu),\u00a0Philip Younghusband (Meralco Manila), Mike Ott (Angthong United), Javier Pati\u00f1o (Henan Jianye)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) has released the 23-man roster for the Azkals’ upcoming matches against China and Tajikistan in June. Phil and James Younghusband lead the list of locally based players, while Javier Pati\u00f1o and Daisuke Sato are the overseas-based call-ups. A notable omission in the list is England-based goalkeeper Neil Etheridge. Head coach Thomas Dooley confirmed to CNN Philippines that Patrick Deyto will man the goalposts in Etheridge’s\u00a0absence. The Philippines will first face China in an international friendly on 7 June in Guangzhou, China, before challenging Tajikistan in the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 Qualifiers on 13 June. Philippines’ 23-man squad Goalkeeper:\u00a0Nicholas O’Donnell (Global Cebu),\u00a0Patrick Deyto (Global Cebu),\u00a0Nathanael … Continue reading “Philippines announce squad to face China and Tajikistan”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855,26],"tags":[106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}