{"id":25181,"date":"2014-09-09T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T06:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=25181"},"modified":"2014-09-09T17:32:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T09:32:17","slug":"azkals-remain-positive-despite-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/09\/azkals-remain-positive-despite-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Azkals remain positive despite losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24852\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Azkals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24852\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Azkals.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"276\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine Azkals are still upbeat in spite of two losses as they prepare for another major tournament slated late this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Azkals first suffered their lone loss against Palestine at 0-1 during the AFC Challenge Cup. Afterwards, they suffered another heartbreak against Burma (Myanmar) at 2-3 during the Philippine Peace Cup held over the weekend at Rizal Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>While disappointed, head coach Thomas Dooley is optimistic that the Azkals are on the right track in time for the AFF Suzuki Cup this December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re moving forward and I\u2019m still happy with how we\u2019ve developed in the past seven months,\u201d said Dooley, who was appointed head coach last February. \u201cThe only thing we want to find out is how we can play our best game in a final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Burma coach Raddy Avramovic, mentioned that the Azkals have greatly improved from the last time they faced each other in the Suzuki Cup semifinals. He was then coaching the team of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they have more quality now,\u201d said Avramovic.\u00a0 \u201cThe problem when facing the Philippines is that they don\u2019t have just 11 players, but 20 players who can make an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine Azkals are still upbeat in spite of two losses as they prepare for another major tournament &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[4662],"class_list":["post-25181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-azkals","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}