CASTE, FOOTBALL, SACRIFICE

2019 SEA Games

As professional football Coaches, we see, watch and analyze the matches and trajectories of the teams in order to discover new tactical trends, technical and physical progresses, what we would do as Coaches against teams that play with one or another style. The feelings here do not play.

Nevertheless when those players are Under 22 players we should detect on what footballers a country will be based for a very next future, and knowing and be aware that these players are the result of the last years (at least 10) of work in the development of young promises. Of course we are talking exclusively about the players who grew in their mothers country. A very large majority of the eleven participating countries in the SEA Games base their teams on players that grew and were developed in their own countries.

Yesterday we had to choose between going to Biñan to see a match that the Philippines would win by several goals and another in which the two teams, yes, both of them, played for an only one ticket to the semifinals. The second part of the Cambodians against the Malays was to frame. Football, caste and sacrifice. And that's where the hand of a Coach is seen, in the corrections done in the locker room, and without looking for advantages through continuous protesting to the referees.

At the end, my choice was correct. All that a football game demands, on and off the field, we lived at Rizal. Very much to learn. Viva el Fútbol!

At the end, my choice was correct. All that a football game demands, on and off the field, we lived at Rizal. Very much to learn. Viva el Fútbol!