RP whips East Timor 4-1
(when was the last time you read a headline like this?)
THE RP Men's football team finally bagged a win in the Pre-Southeast Asian Games tournament in Bangkok, Thailand, scoring a 4-1 bashing of Timor Leste in its final match.
The former whipping boys of Southeast Asia finished third in Group A behind Myanmar, which beat the Filipinos, 2-6; and Malaysia, which slipped past RP, 2-1.
Cebuanos Oliver Colina, Arnie Pasinabo and Jhuniel Bapor are with the squad, who are gearing up for the 23rd SEA Games football tournament in Bacolod City on Nov. 27 to Dec. 5.
Meanwhile, Pasinabo's former coach in Carmen National School, Graeme Mackinnon, was elated with his ward's stint in the national team.
"Arnie has always showed great potential but he did not have the passion to want to train in Manila like Michael (Casas) did. I hope that this trip to Thailand will give him the urge to rethink and to play again for the national team because he is only 19 and would have a long career with the team," Mackinnon said in an e-mail.
Casas was Mackinnon's goalkeeper at Carmen National School and started for the RP team in the Tiger Cup, but was cut from the Bangkok trip because of attitude problems.
"Arnie is quick and deceptive on the dribble and during his time with us he developed his left foot to the point where he was able to shoot well with either foot, and that gave him the advantage of being versatile in playing either on the left or right side of the field," Mackinnon said.
THE RP Men's football team finally bagged a win in the Pre-Southeast Asian Games tournament in Bangkok, Thailand, scoring a 4-1 bashing of Timor Leste in its final match.
The former whipping boys of Southeast Asia finished third in Group A behind Myanmar, which beat the Filipinos, 2-6; and Malaysia, which slipped past RP, 2-1.
Cebuanos Oliver Colina, Arnie Pasinabo and Jhuniel Bapor are with the squad, who are gearing up for the 23rd SEA Games football tournament in Bacolod City on Nov. 27 to Dec. 5.
Meanwhile, Pasinabo's former coach in Carmen National School, Graeme Mackinnon, was elated with his ward's stint in the national team.
"Arnie has always showed great potential but he did not have the passion to want to train in Manila like Michael (Casas) did. I hope that this trip to Thailand will give him the urge to rethink and to play again for the national team because he is only 19 and would have a long career with the team," Mackinnon said in an e-mail.
Casas was Mackinnon's goalkeeper at Carmen National School and started for the RP team in the Tiger Cup, but was cut from the Bangkok trip because of attitude problems.
"Arnie is quick and deceptive on the dribble and during his time with us he developed his left foot to the point where he was able to shoot well with either foot, and that gave him the advantage of being versatile in playing either on the left or right side of the field," Mackinnon said.
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