2018 FIFA WORLD CUP QUALIFIER : AZKALS ANNOUNCES 23 MAN TRAINING POOL

The Philippine Azkals announced the 23 names that it called back for the training camp for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifier. The pool is consists of a mix of veteran Azkals campaigners, youngblood that has been competing with the Azkals for the past years, returning players and even new faces but veteran players from international leagues.

The 23 names that has been called are as follows:

AGUINALDO, Amani Manuel
BAHADORAN, Misagh
DANIELS, Kenshiro Michael
DEYTO, Patrick Phillip
ETHERIDGE, Neil Leonard
GIER, Robert James
GUIRADO, Juan Luis
HARTMANN, Mark Andrew
INGRESO, Kevin
LUCENA, Jerry Ruben
OTT, Manuel
PALLA, Stephan
PATIÑO, Javier
RAMSAY, Iain
REICHELT, Patrick
ROTA, Simone
SATO, Daisuke
SCHROCK, Stephan Markus
STEUBLE, Martin Markus
TRIGO, Tomas Angel
VILLANUEVA, Dennis
WOODLAND, Luke
YOUNGHUSBAND, Philip James

Notable returnees are Neil Etheridge and Stephan Schrock, who already apologised to the team after some misunderstanding with the coaches. Javier Patino was able to clear his schedule with his Chinese club team and will be able to suit up for the national team

New recruits included in the pool are Stephan Palla, Iain Ramsay, Luke Woodland and Kevin Ingreso, most of which are from Australia.

Training camp will start on June 1. The first qualifier match will be on June 11 at the Philippine Sports Stadium in Bulacan against Bahrain and the next match will be against Yemen on June 16 in Qatar.