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Post by jas0n on Feb 12, 2014 2:06:01 GMT 8
I thought Rota plays Center Back? I think we need more help in that position. At least we have Barbaso, De Murga, Pettys, Omphroy, Jonsson, etc. as options on Right. Barbaso is still not good enough for international competition at the moment. De Murga is coming of a major injury and I dont know what happened to Omphroy and if he woukd ever play for us again. I dont know who Pettys is... We really need help on our defence and strikers IMO.
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Post by nashval on Feb 12, 2014 2:46:51 GMT 8
I thought Rota plays Center Back? I think we need more help in that position. At least we have Barbaso, De Murga, Pettys, Omphroy, Jonsson, etc. as options on Right. Barbaso is still not good enough for international competition at the moment. De Murga is coming of a major injury and I dont know what happened to Omphroy and if he woukd ever play for us again. I dont know who Pettys is... We really need help on our defence and strikers IMO. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Pettyswww.ukathletics.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/pettys_charlie01.html
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Post by kuo24 on Feb 12, 2014 12:07:57 GMT 8
Pettys is playing for Global. Pretty decent so far.
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Post by materkush on Feb 12, 2014 20:38:03 GMT 8
New Azkals coach has no room for selfish playersMANILA, Philippines – New Philippine national team head coach Thomas Dooley has one hard-and-fast rule when it comes to football: a player cannot be selfish and put himself above the team. Dooley, who was formally introduced as the new Azkals head coach last week, told Dyan Castillejo of ABS-CBN News that a player who wants to wear the colors of the national team should realize that this is his one non-negotiable rule. “If somebody is selfish and just want to put himself in front of anybody, then that somebody should play tennis because that’s one on one,” Dooley said. “The individual skill that everybody has, he has to bring that to the team, and not for himself. If somebody wants to play for themselves, he should play tennis. But this is a soccer, this is a team sport,” he added. Source
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Post by pinoysquirrel on Feb 13, 2014 0:27:33 GMT 8
Hey peeps!
I'm a longtime reader, first time poster. As I live overseas, I don't get to watch training or practice matches in Philippines.
With the new coach in town and all this hype of him watching the UFL, has he actually gotten onto a field and played or practiced with the players? When does official training commence for the upcoming March friendlies?
Thanks!
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Post by cjeagle on Feb 14, 2014 3:37:37 GMT 8
Dooley, who played for the United States in the early 1990s, said winning the Challenge Cup will be the first step that the Azkals will take towards “the next level,” but they must not stop there. “I want to play against – and it should be the goal for the players too – I want to play against the big teams,” he said. “I want to play against the Japanese, I want to play against Korea. I want to play in front of 40-50,000 people.” “So it doesn’t mean that I don’t want to play against those teams that we play right now, but… I want to play in the World Cup. It’s not possible with the team at the moment, because we cannot qualify. But if we have a year, two years, three years or four years, you’re developing the players that we have here in Manila,” he added. “The players, individually, they are pretty good. They have a lot of talent, and they are technically good,” he said. “The biggest goal for me is, tactically, that we work together.” www.abs-cbnnews.com/sports/02/13/14/dooley-has-big-dreams-ph-azkalsThe guy is pretty ambitious. The Challenge Cup is definitely winnable, but other than that, I think he will be brought down to earth soon enough, but it is nice to dream.
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Post by faridoon on Feb 15, 2014 1:54:25 GMT 8
The Philosophy. The coach says he will employ a very typically German 4-2-3-1 formation, meaning four defenders, two holding (defensive) midfielders, a winger on either side, one attacking midfielder, and a target forward. This formation can be very defensive but it can also lend itself to attacking Football, since the wingbacks are often called to bomb downfield on overlaps. “I want to play the ball out of the back and win the ball back four or five seconds after we lose it” says the new coach, who is committed to offensive and attacking Football. Dooley says he would love the Azkals to emulate top clubs like Barcelona and Arsenal. “I like the way they play because they play simply” he intones. “Too many players make the game difficult for themselves.” Dooley also says that these clubs “are perfect in all the basics of the game” and that their technical prowess helps them play simple Football. He'd love to see the Azkals play a selfless, quick-passing game. Hopefully this will mean an end to the much-reviled long balls out of the back that often characterized the Michael Weiss era. “Football is a team game. If someone wants to play for himself, he should play Tennis” he said to guffaws from the room. ph.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/thepassionatefan/meet-thomas-dooley-azkals-coach-063522742.html4-2-3-1 formation: Team A Team B:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2014 2:32:45 GMT 8
www.abs-cbnnews.com/sports/02/18/14/azkals-look-impress-knowledgeable-dooleyThe "people skills", at this point, that this coach shows is incredible. “He’s been very transparent with the group,” said James. “We had lunch before training, and he gave us a PowerPoint presentation to explain his plan, so it’s good that he has a plan. He just wants us to play simple football, which is good, because it’s something that I was taught as a young boy when I was training in the UK. Simplicity is genius, and all the best players in the world keep it simple,” he added.
Phil said the national team players were excited to begin working with Dooley. “Mabait siya, and alam niya, he has the knowledge and he knows what he’s talking about,” he said. “He knows what he wants and he knows how he wants the team to play.”
I think the approach that Coach Dooley utilizes has tremendous psychological and mental advantages in achieving mutual respect. One can't discount the relative importance of that, that "people skills" quality in a coach. That it's not just about the Xs and Os. That it's more about the organization, of working with the personalities of the team! He is analyzing players. He's getting them to fill roles as part of a team. He's paying attention to fundamentals and details: "Dooley, for his part, has stressed that preparing for the Challenge Cup will be a step-by-step process, and expects that it will take a few training sessions before the Azkals adjust to his training style as well as the new drills that he introduced to the team.“It takes a while so there will be some mistakes,” he said.Just good stuff. All top-notch coaches will be quick to point out that whatever success they've experience is not much a result of their vast game-related knowledge -- the Xs and Os -- as their understanding of human behavior. I just think this is great stuff about Coach Dooley.
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Post by kuo24 on Feb 20, 2014 7:30:12 GMT 8
Key to good coaching = magaling mag-Powerpoint =)
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Post by jrmooncake on Feb 20, 2014 9:03:27 GMT 8
Key to good coaching = magaling mag-Powerpoint =) men are visual, so that makes sense....they understand better what the coach wants them to understand..i like him very much...he has that quality to let the players believe in their ability to perform better...the battle starts within, how i wish he started a year ago..i'm looking forward for his ability to change the players perspective towards the game rather than winning games! Congrats Mr. Dan Palami for bringin in the right person...
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Post by cjeagle on Feb 21, 2014 13:25:11 GMT 8
Thomas Dooley Takes Over Philippines National Team The German-American defender was a key player for the U.S. in the 1990s, and now he is heading up the Philippine national team. Brian Sciaretta spoke to Dooley about his new role. BY Brian Sciaretta February 20, 2014 3:39 PM YOU KNOW THAT whole German-American thing happening within U.S. Soccer? Well, Jurgen Klinsmann didn’t invent it, and neither did Jermaine Jones, Fabian Johnson, or Terrence Boyd. Thomas Dooley, born in Bechhofen, West Germany to a German mother and a U.S. Army father, played 81 games for the U.S. national team between 1992 and 1999. A rugged, savvy defender with a Bundesliga title and a UEFA Cup in his trophy case, Dooley played every minute of the 1994 World Cup. He also served as fill-in American captain at the 1998 tournament, when John Harkes was stripped of the honor and dismissed from the squad just prior to the competition. After a coaching gig in Germany and a stint as an assistant with U.S. Soccer, the 52-year-old Orange County, Calif., resident is now in charge of the Philippines national team. American Soccer Now’s Brian Sciaretta caught up with Dooley and discussed a wide variety of topics, including the 2014 World Cup. The following interview has been lightly edited. BRIAN SCIARETTA FOR ASN: How are things going on your first few days on the job? THOMAS DOOLEY: I like it a lot. It’s beautiful. It’s a nice area here in Manila. It’s booming and is nice and clean. There are beautiful malls every two miles. ASN: How did you find out about this job? Have you ever been to the Philippines before this process started? DOOLEY: No, not really. I know a kid who played in our academy, Pateadores, who is from the Philippines. His father asked me to train his kid and I did that on the side a little bit. He told me that I should train the national team because they really need to do something. I said I would love to. I’m looking for a coaching job but it is very tough here. He said, “Let me see what I could do.” It was just a talk. He then got in touch with the women’s national team coach. He contacted them and said, “You guys are looking for a coach at the moment—why don’t you consider Thomas?” They e-mailed him right back saying I should send a resume over. That’s what I did. They asked if I could come in for an interview and I said I could do that. I told them I had games in three weeks and it would be impossible for me to come over. They then said, “What if we came over to L.A.?” They flew over and we met for a 2-3 hour interview. After, I said I really feel there is something here I really think I can help. We talked about the details, and 2-3 days later we agreed. ASN: How much have you learned about soccer in the Philippines? DOOLEY: Obviously when I had the interview, I looked at a couple of the games. I wanted to see if there was anything possible and what was I getting into. I figured out that the team was actually not bad. It’s a pretty good team. There are technically skillful players there. When I watched those games, they were really well organized. Some of the players made easy mistakes—sometimes they didn’t stay in the right spot. The whole tactical part, that is something that is doable and something that you can change. I think if everybody gets that point, you can raise the level of play. The team was pretty successful under the previous coach. They were ranked in the 150s and they moved up to 127. There’s a huge tournament coming up in May and they just felt wanted to bring in someone else to help the team even more. That’s the focus I’m having right now. Get those players in maybe two times a week—maybe 4-8 national team players and develop them a little more because the international players can only come in a few days before the FIFA international dates. It’s very difficult. I would love to have more time with these players but you have to take what you can get. ASN: It’s interesting that when you decided to play for the United States in 1992, it was still a country that was trying to find its way in the sport. Now, as a coach, you are leading a Philippines team that is also aiming gain a foothold internationally. Do you see the similarities? DOOLEY: It’s exactly what it is. The similarity I’m finding here is like the United States. It’s a great opportunity. I know I wouldn’t coach Germany or Spain. You have to start somehow. You have to find someone who trusts you and who believes in you and thinks you’re the right guy. I never got that chance in the United States. Jurgen gave me the chance in the beginning as an assistant and Tab Ramos gave me a chance with the U-20s as an assistant. This was greatly appreciated to be involved in soccer a little bit more. Now I have the opportunity to see what I can do on my own and making the final decisions on the team and the players. This is something that is very, very interesting. I will enjoy it. When I was the head coach at Saarbruken, it was unbelievable. I enjoyed it so much. I didn’t get support from anybody because they made the decision to hire another coach. They just needed me for three months and when I got there the team was in last place. But I knew the club well. For me it was a great experience dealing with the club president, 33 players, and no assistant coaches. It helped me learn a perspective from that area working with issues I’d have to deal with later on. ASN: Are you hoping that this job perhaps eventually opens doors in the United States—maybe in MLS or within U.S. Soccer? DOOLEY: I don’t even think about that right now. I’m thinking about this team and how I can get it going the way I would like to see it. I want to be successful and we’re going to be successful if we win the Challenge Cup in May. They haven’t done that before. Who knows? I love it over here. The people are nice and the teams are good. If I can bring success here, who knows what it will lead to? Again, I was so close in so many times in conversations in getting a job in MLS or getting a job maybe with U.S. Soccer in the youth programs. I’m not focused on that at all now. You can’t. You need to be focused on what you’re doing. If somebody comes later on and asks if you’ll be interested—that’s a different story. But you can’t think about something like that. It’s not going to happen right now. americansoccernow.com/articles/thomas-dooley-takes-over-philippines-national-teamInteresting interview by Thomas. It seems he likes it over there just as much as the national team has embraced him.
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Post by leoisiah on Feb 21, 2014 13:33:41 GMT 8
HAHAHAHA. Is it a good thing or a bad thing that we have malls every two miles?
Who is this kid he is talking about?
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Post by tipo on Feb 21, 2014 16:37:10 GMT 8
Who is this kid he is talking about? i chanced on him while searching twitter & can't remember his name anymore. He posted that his dad got Thomas Dooley the job last Jan 28 but he was real careful to tweet it in a disjointed manner. he was/was with the one who drove him to the airport last Feb 6 & tweeted a pic of Coach Dooley in front of a PAL podium.
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Post by sikatrix on Feb 21, 2014 23:08:46 GMT 8
The standout part of the interview for me is Dooley talking about 4-8 Azkals who will probably be starting along with international based Azkals. Who are these 4-8 players? Obviously PYH but beyond him its a crapshoot if you limit the number to four. Carli if he was healthy would be a given, then there are the likes of JYH, Reichelt, Christeans, Porteria, Sacapano, Hartmann, Pettys, Rona, Borromeo, del Rosario and others of whom one can argue deserves a slot in the Starting 11. Anyway thats why we have tryouts.
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Post by cjeagle on Feb 22, 2014 1:00:34 GMT 8
www.azkalsfootballteam.com/news.php?id=448With the first two national team training sessions already finished, Coach Thomas Dooley admitted that there are still some aspects he would like to change especially for his players. "There should be something to be changed so that the players are more comfortable and can concentrate on the training 100% and not on anything else," said Dooley. "It's a little more work and a little more difficult, but in the end, the players can do a better job." Dooley also added that he enjoys watching the games, as it helps him to focus on some players rather than seeing a number of players in training. "It helps a lot watching the games (in the UFL) because now I focus on two-three players on the field," said Dooley. "It's a little bit easier for me to evaluate somebody." The American coach also noted he will reduce the training pool heading to the international friendly against Malaysia and Azerbaijan, but also praised the players who attended the training sessions. "It was great to see them in training, but now slowly but surely, we'll cut it (heading to the friendlies)," noted Dooley. "We will talk that with the players on what we need to do for the match."
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