Post by Wiking on Oct 10, 2011 0:29:12 GMT 8
Thanks for the article jonny! Allow me to translate(google) for the rest of the members:
AGFs Jerry Lucena was a wild dog
In the Philippines, football fever is raging. National team - number 166 in the world - has rapidly achieved national stardom and the players are treated like they named Messi or Ronaldo. Amidst all this stands a surprised Jerry Lucena from AGF, which is delighted to help build a football culture from scratch.
Jerry Lucena is preparing for its fifth season in the AGF-shirt. And with very good success as a right-back in recent seasons. IN the Philippine national team, he is employed in center defense.
"They besiege the closest the hotels we stay at. They whine and cry when we bury our heads out the window or just show us. "
Enough is a relatively Aarhus fodboldgal town - at least when it comes to AGF - but the club's reliable right-back, 31-year-old Jerry Ruben Lucena, has never exactly been celebrated in such a decidedly rock star-style wearing the white shirt.
But - feted and celebrated - he is so much in these days when he is out east to again perform for the Philippine national team, which lost 2-0 Friday to Singapore and Tuesday play another test match against Nepal.
We're talking Beatles modes and idol worship that surpasses the imagination.
For the Philippines has football over the past few years has grown huge - or rather the male football team - as there still is no national league in the island.
Jerry Lucena was born and raised in Denmark with a Danish mother and Filipino father, and made its debut on the Philippine national team against Palestine back in March.
They come from afar
And he smiles broadly, shakes his little head when he tells of the sheer hysteria that surrounds the team, which currently occupies a lowly position as number 166 in FIFA World Rankings.
"It's crazy. Now I have not been so much with (have played three matches, ed.) So I am not in the front row, but some of the other international players are huge stars there. There are large posters and billboards with them everywhere in the cities, they participate in television shows and can not walk alone on the street. There is great atmosphere when we play and the fans, especially teenagers, are in droves outside our hotel and yell and scream when we walk out to the bus. It's pretty surreal, but great fun to be part of, "says the AGFeren, as virtually all of the other players in the national team squad comes 'home' from around the world.
Thus, only one player in the starting line-up to the latest World Cup qualifier against Kuwait was born and raised in the Philippines. The rest are residing outside the Philippines and have either a mother or father who originates from the island. Thus was another Danish player, former AGFer Dennis Cagara, his debut in Friday's defeat to Singapore.
So there is typically practiced a little on the national anthem Lupang Hinirang 'eve' Azkals' - the wild dogs - to play an international match. You should at least be able to mumble a little when they proudly chimes before kick off.
"It's a business man named Dan Palami who have begun to post large amounts into Philippine football and that also stands for the search for possible national team issues around the world. It may not be quite inexpensive, when so many are flying to Asia from their clubs in Europe, but he financed it all and is really keen to do something good for football in this country, "it comes from Jerry Lucena.
Germans are
But he does not stand alone, this Dan Palami who has the title of manager for the national team and almost being mentioned as a national hero in the Philippine media. Also the German Football Association has been involved in building the sport in the country and as a result, among other things has hired a coach with a German passport, Hans Michael Weiss.
And it has moved the boot studs in a short time for the booming national team, there still may find themselves distanced from both boxing and basketball as the most popular sports. Until now.
"There's already got a lot more grip on it compared to the first time I attended the training session with the national team. It becomes obvious. The organization behind is OK, although still lacking a lot and football terms, not least tactically, the team has really moved a lot. The many new 'European' players have a totally different football training, and it has clearly raised the level considerably in a short time, "said Lucena, who - when he first got a call from the Philippine Football Federation back in January - first and foremost as it as an opportunity to expand its network and create relationships with his father's family.
AGFs Jerry Lucena was a wild dog
In the Philippines, football fever is raging. National team - number 166 in the world - has rapidly achieved national stardom and the players are treated like they named Messi or Ronaldo. Amidst all this stands a surprised Jerry Lucena from AGF, which is delighted to help build a football culture from scratch.
Jerry Lucena is preparing for its fifth season in the AGF-shirt. And with very good success as a right-back in recent seasons. IN the Philippine national team, he is employed in center defense.
"They besiege the closest the hotels we stay at. They whine and cry when we bury our heads out the window or just show us. "
Enough is a relatively Aarhus fodboldgal town - at least when it comes to AGF - but the club's reliable right-back, 31-year-old Jerry Ruben Lucena, has never exactly been celebrated in such a decidedly rock star-style wearing the white shirt.
But - feted and celebrated - he is so much in these days when he is out east to again perform for the Philippine national team, which lost 2-0 Friday to Singapore and Tuesday play another test match against Nepal.
We're talking Beatles modes and idol worship that surpasses the imagination.
For the Philippines has football over the past few years has grown huge - or rather the male football team - as there still is no national league in the island.
Jerry Lucena was born and raised in Denmark with a Danish mother and Filipino father, and made its debut on the Philippine national team against Palestine back in March.
They come from afar
And he smiles broadly, shakes his little head when he tells of the sheer hysteria that surrounds the team, which currently occupies a lowly position as number 166 in FIFA World Rankings.
"It's crazy. Now I have not been so much with (have played three matches, ed.) So I am not in the front row, but some of the other international players are huge stars there. There are large posters and billboards with them everywhere in the cities, they participate in television shows and can not walk alone on the street. There is great atmosphere when we play and the fans, especially teenagers, are in droves outside our hotel and yell and scream when we walk out to the bus. It's pretty surreal, but great fun to be part of, "says the AGFeren, as virtually all of the other players in the national team squad comes 'home' from around the world.
Thus, only one player in the starting line-up to the latest World Cup qualifier against Kuwait was born and raised in the Philippines. The rest are residing outside the Philippines and have either a mother or father who originates from the island. Thus was another Danish player, former AGFer Dennis Cagara, his debut in Friday's defeat to Singapore.
So there is typically practiced a little on the national anthem Lupang Hinirang 'eve' Azkals' - the wild dogs - to play an international match. You should at least be able to mumble a little when they proudly chimes before kick off.
"It's a business man named Dan Palami who have begun to post large amounts into Philippine football and that also stands for the search for possible national team issues around the world. It may not be quite inexpensive, when so many are flying to Asia from their clubs in Europe, but he financed it all and is really keen to do something good for football in this country, "it comes from Jerry Lucena.
Germans are
But he does not stand alone, this Dan Palami who has the title of manager for the national team and almost being mentioned as a national hero in the Philippine media. Also the German Football Association has been involved in building the sport in the country and as a result, among other things has hired a coach with a German passport, Hans Michael Weiss.
And it has moved the boot studs in a short time for the booming national team, there still may find themselves distanced from both boxing and basketball as the most popular sports. Until now.
"There's already got a lot more grip on it compared to the first time I attended the training session with the national team. It becomes obvious. The organization behind is OK, although still lacking a lot and football terms, not least tactically, the team has really moved a lot. The many new 'European' players have a totally different football training, and it has clearly raised the level considerably in a short time, "said Lucena, who - when he first got a call from the Philippine Football Federation back in January - first and foremost as it as an opportunity to expand its network and create relationships with his father's family.