OPINION | Dreaming about the World Cup By Bernardo M. Villegas READ:
. On the Dedication page, I wrote: “I dedicate this book to all Filipino children who have developed a passion for the beautiful game. You are the hope for the World Cup before the 21I was overly conservative in giving the stakeholders of Philippine football a very long period to qualify for the World Cup.
An entry in Wikipedia describing the Philippines national football team may give us an international view about the sport as played in our country. Corresponding to the periods described by Ramirez, the entry stressed the fact that prior to World War II, the Philippines had regularly competed with Japan and the Republic of China in the Far Eastern Championships, at times winning matches against their more richly endowed opponents.
Despite its being a newcomer to the game, the Philippine basketball team finished a strong fifth in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. This rising popularity of basketball was further fanned by a still-unmatched bronze medal finish by the national squad in the 1954 World Basketball Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Symbolically, this spectacular feat spawned new breed of sports heroes that included Carlos Loyzaga, the son of five-time national footballer Joaquin Loyzaga.
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