MANILA, Philippines (AP) Members of the Philippines women's soccer team, which recently qualified for its first World Cup, have played down social media comments that most of the players with mixed American ancestry “were not Filipino enough.”
The Philippine national women's football team was eliminated in the semi-finals of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup as they lost 2-0 at the hands of a much higher ranked South Korea in Pune, India.
With a slot to the FIFA Women s World Cup on the line, the 24-year-old traded her spot in between the goal posts to square up and take a shot against her Chinese Taipei counterpart to force sudden death.
The members of the Philippine women's national football team were on cloud nine after booking the country's first ever qualification to the FIFA Women's World Cup.
IF you listen to the members of the Philippine women’s team, they will all drop words like “belief” and “confidence” and even “faith” after their huge 4-3 penalty shootout win over Chinese-Taipei (following a 1-1 draw in regulation and extra time in the quarterfinals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian…