Mark Mangune would send the DMs after mundane days at his telecommunications job in Michigan. Sofia Harrison received hers on Instagram in 2017, and found it 'a little sketchy.' She was a freshman at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. He was a self-described 'random dude' who'd spend idle time on message boards — until, that is, the Philippines Football Federation gave him a title.
Mark Mangune would send the DMs after mundane days at his telecommunications job in Michigan. Sofia Harrison received hers on Instagram in 2017, and found it “a little sketchy.” She was a freshman at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. He was a self-described “random dude” who’d spend idle time on message boards — until, that is, the Philippines Football Federation gave him a title.
And they never asked for a penny. “I'm not aware of any official paid scout,” Impelido says. “It's just on us, our love for football, and for the Philippines.”Impelido spent his first decade in America wholly unaware that the Philippines women’s national team existed. He’d been born and raised in the Asian archipelago, but only followed men’s soccer. The women’s program had largely been neglected, and would sometimes go years without even playing a game.
But his daughters savored it. Patrice eventually became an assistant coach, and now lives in the Philippines. Butchie, meanwhile, developed a relationship with the PFF, and would share lists of prospects with coaches. In 2011 or 2012, while perusing the USAPANG Football message boards, he stumbled upon one particularly thorough list — so thorough that Ernie Nierras, the national team head coach at the time, sought out its mastermind.
“Initially, I wasn't getting replies,” Mangune says. “I mean, as great and as cool as it sounds to be wanted by the Philippines women's national team, they weren't sure if they could believe this.” Initially, Mangune says, “I don't know if the federation was purely down with what we were doing.” But now there was no going back.Quinley Quezada was a sophomore at the University of California, Riverside in 2017 when her college coach caught wind of opportunity. The Philippines, her mother’s homeland, was holding tryouts 15 minutes away. Word had spread through the SoCal soccer community; it no longer relied exclusively on Impelido or Mangune. Quezada was intrigued, and showed up.
Their squad, meanwhile, was deeper than ever, because the recruitment script had flipped. It was now the players sending Instagram DMs, contacting the PFF, Mangune or Impelido. There are now multiple bars to clear. Whereas the 2012 tryouts were essentially open, Stajcic now asks for player profiles and video highlights.
There, with a maiden World Cup on the line, and with a starting 11 entirely born in the USA, they topped Chinese Taipei on penalties.It was a"whirl of emotions,” Harrison says, and it not only propelled them to New Zealand this summer; it brought them closer to their families’ heritage than ever before.
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