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Post by cjeagle on Mar 7, 2014 23:44:33 GMT 8
Coach Weiss indeed improved somewhat, if you have been following the national team from the start. It is called on the job training. But the beginning was unconscionable(we took a step back from the McMenemy era) and progress was slow and marked by some drastic dips in form culminating in the SEA games debacle. If Dooley was in charge back then, we would be above 100 in the FIFA rankings by now.
Caz, I agree about the Postcript title. If no one objects, maybe you should just go ahead and use that.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2014 0:36:00 GMT 8
CVIRAA to Palarong Pambansa to MPFL old-timer student of the game:) DP was a familiar name in some of the peripheral circles then.
@caz i second the motion:)
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Post by cjeagle on Mar 8, 2014 2:09:40 GMT 8
More Coach Weiss rants: Fair Play: Tiki-taka vs. tira pataka (This is my Fair Play column for Sun.Star Cebu's March 8 issue) I KNOW it’s bad form to talk about former national team coach Michael Weiss, but you just can’t help draw comparisons after seeing the first two games of the national team under coach Thomas Dooley. Coach Weiss, whose time with the team saw the Philippines attain its highest ranking, once said that “I don’t think if you’d get Arsene Wenger he could have done better. You talk about tiki-taka..tiki-taka...but I have to work with what I have.” Criticisms about how the team played under Weiss were always there, but it seemed to have been swept under because we were chalking up all those wins. I know one critic, who as early as the 2011 World Cup qualifiers, was already pointing the same points and questions about the team critics had last year. Curiously, he said he’d just shut up as long as we were winning. And when the coaching change happened, boy, did he rant a long “I-told-you-so!” post on social media. Tiki-taka, the short game, which the former coach said wasn’t the best option for us, hence the reliance on the long ball. Tiki-taka, the Philippine version, in full display against Azerbaijan. Composed buildup from the back-four, not that let’s-hope-the-strikers-are-quick-enough-to-get-this-long ball. For young kids who get taught by their age group coaches to play the passing game and see the national team resort to things their coaches tell them not too, it’s a welcome change. Tiki-taka, not tira pataka. What a wonderful change. Yes we lost, but the team played so beautifully that sometimes, I had to remind myself that we were playing a European side ranked No. 93. cebufootball.blogspot.com/2014/03/fair-play-tiki-taka-vs-tira-pataka.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMdMPT+%28Cebu+Football%29I think Mike Limpag reads our forum. He sometimes makes references to comments here. I even remember him using that term "on the job trainee" after posts I made here or on other sites.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2014 3:35:00 GMT 8
Bob Guerero's been stealing from Mike, you see. Not stories, but food. Holds back a lot, too concious, and look how skinny the poor guy is. Not Bob, but Mike.
He's okay. He mixes the vernacular in his works once in a while. He's Ilocano, right? While Bob shoots straight, Mike finds angles:
"Weiss fielded a veteran Sacapano instead of the taller, younger, Paolo Pascual. Azerbaijan siya nagkakamali!.."
Very funny. Not Bob, but Mike.
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Post by cjeagle on Mar 8, 2014 3:49:08 GMT 8
Bob Guerero's been stealing from Mike, you see. Not stories, but food. Holds back a lot, too concious, and look how skinny the poor guy is. Not Bob, but Mike. He's okay. He mixes the vernacular in his works once in a while. He's Ilocano, right? While Bob shoots straight, Mike finds angles: "Weiss fielded a veteran Sacapano instead of the taller, younger, Paolo Pascual. Azerbaijan siya nagkakamali!.." Very funny. Not Bob, but Mike. Man did you even the check the article out or are you pulling our leg again? It says Cebu football.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2014 4:06:56 GMT 8
oops:(
Matay paita ani bisaya man diay. 'Sapa na part Mike!!!
Subtitle: mabalen ka nga imbetaran nga ag pasyar diay igid-igid, Mike. or Mabuhay ka Mike!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2014 4:47:29 GMT 8
I think a thread for exclusive smack talk on who's the coolest (or hottest?) Filipino Sportswriters (football, not hockey!!!!) should be created also.
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Post by cjeagle on Mar 9, 2014 21:52:33 GMT 8
Dooley's evaluation of the Weiss style of play:
“The reason I wanted to come here was that I saw they didn’t play soccer,” adds Dooley. “They played a kick-and-rush style game, I want to play differently. With these players we can play a better style, they’re all good.
“We want a team that can play nicely, that people can get behind."
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Post by slayermoonlight on Mar 17, 2014 15:23:25 GMT 8
Is there any link of the Azkal-Azerbaijan replay available? I wanna watch how our team fared against Azerbaijan before comparing it to how the Azkals playerd during Weiss' tenure.
We fielded new players like Deyto and Rota yet they were still able to held tight with Azerbaijan. Not like during the Kuwait matches when they can easily score 2 or 3 goals on them. And Azerbaijan is way better than Kuwait. So there is something that Dooley and the Azkals has done right, especially in Defense (we always had nerve-cracking, chest-thumping defense in Weiss' time hehehe).
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