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Dan Palami Philippine Azkals team manager Dan Palami remains confident that the national squad will be able to withstand all challenges going into the resumption of World Cup/Asian Cup Qualifiers this week. Palami believes the Azkals can display the usual fight they have shown in the past even aft ....
Published May 25, 2021, 4:47 PM The Philippine Azkals have started their Doha training camp Monday, May 24, in preparation for the resumption of the World Cup/Asian Cup Qualifiers in early-June. Team captain Stephan Schrock leads a group of 12 players who are now in the Qatari capital for the weeklong camp which coach Scott Cooper hopes would be enough for the Azkals to be ready once they arrive in Suzhou, China for the final three matches of the second round. Other players in Doha are veterans Mark Hartmann, Angel Guirado, Alvaro Silva, Luke Woodland, Patrick Reichelt and Jarvey Gayoso while Matt Baldissimo, Niko de Vera, Mar Diano, Mark Winhoffer, Bernd Schipmann and Michael Kempter comprise the newcomers. ....
2021 MLS Superdraft Preview The Superdraft is coming up on 1/21 so I expect one of the STF writers will be writing up a lengthy preview. I hope so, because I don t know enough about the prospects to have a good sense of what the options are. I have done a tiny bit of digging though, because I couldn t wait. I see us having the following positions of need: right back depth, left back depth, central defender/center back depth, a MF replacement for Flores, and possibly a winger. As we have young players at right and left fullback and no veteran depth at either position right now, we may look elsewhere to fill at least one of those spots. The rumor that we may be picking up Josecarlos van Rankin seems to have legs and would give us relatively young and experienced depth on the right. We still need at least one more fullback option that can play left or both sides. As hyped as Bravo is, we still want some competition there, a substitute, or a back up plan, if not all of the abo ....