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The Filipinas’ 2022 campaign was certainly a fruitful one, with the squad winning the bronze medal at the 31Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam. This was followed by the country’s the first ever regional trophy when the team won the AFF Women’s Championship in the Philippines.
The missionaries and members of what would be the American Young Men’s Christian Association , lost no time in their proselytization and evangelization even as the bloody Philippine-American war raged. The missionaries traveled to north and south of the archipelago, with the educators traveling to Dumaguete, Negros Oriental in the south to help establish the Siliman University. Up north, the Americans covered the mineral-rich Baguio-Benguet area.
During the heyday of Philippine football at that time, the star of Paulino Alcantara Riestra — the son of a Spanish military officer married to an Ilongga from Concepcion, Iloilo — shone bright. Alcantara was a member of the Philippine football team to the Far Eastern Games in 1917 held in Tokyo. Alcantara led the Philippines to a 15-2 victory over host Japan. He played for the Barcelona club and was its youngest player.
Other than that, it was all basketball in the ensuing decades — until local businessmen and the national sports association of football and some Local Government Units and schools came together to build up a more competitive men’s team comprised of both Philippine-based and Filipino-foreign players. It was during the period from 2008-2016 that the men’s team improved its international ranking.
At the international level, a winning team will draw 17,000-20,000 fans to a football stadium, crowds that only basketball and women’s volleyball competitions can attract.
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