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MANILA - The 26-man roster will be sent by the Philippine Men's National Football Team in the upcoming 2024 ASEAN Mitsubishi Electric Cup that will run on December 8, 2024 until January 5, 2025 on its home and away Group stages and home-away Knockout phase.
The services of the key players like Kevin Ray Mendoza, Jefferson Tabinas, Joshua Grommen, Manny Ott, Patrick Strauss, and Gerrit Holtmann, who all played in their 3-1 loss vs. Hong Kong in the last month's friendly match, were not tapped and called-up due to imply reasons specifically to their non-approval of their release in their mother professional clubs.
On the official Facebook post of the Philippine Football Federation, the 26 players, mixed from the Philippine Football League, new call-ups, and foreign-based players, will lead the Philippines in their semifinals comeback on the regional biennial tournament.
This will be the first tournament acid test for Albert Capellas after he earned his debut 3-1 loss vs. Hongkong, China last month.
Florencio Badelic , Patrick Deyto , Quincy Kammeraad, and a newcomer playing for Funabashi HS, Nicholas Guimares, will be the national team's goalkeeper.
Joshua Merino, from PFF Developmental Team, was also called-up in the Defender side together with Amani Aguinaldo, Michael Kempter, Kike Linares, Christian Rontini, Santi Rublico, Paul Tabinas, and Adrian Ugelvik.
Zico Bailey, Michael Baldisimo, Pocholo Bugas, Oskari Kekkonen, Sandro Reyes, and Scott Woods was summoned as Midfielders together with the new comer from De Anza Force, Javier Mariona.
Finally, the attackers from the Ateneo De Manila University Dov Cariño and Leo Maquiling were called-up for this important tournament as they with together with Uriel Dalapo, Jarvey Gayoso, Bjorn Kristensen, Alex Monis, and Patrick Reichelt.
The national squad will face Myanmar in Rizal Memorial Stadium this December 12, versus Laos in Vientiane on December 15, get back to Rizal Memorial Stadium to host Vietnam on December 18, and Indonesia in Surakarta on December 21.
Top 2 teams of Group A and B will proceed to the two-legged home and away Semifinals from December 26-30, 2024 while the Finals on the same format will be on January 2-5, 2024.
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