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FIFA best asian player
« on: August 04, 2013, 11:56:39 pm »
long before there was Manny Pacquiao, there was already an international Pinoy sports sensation. Long before the Azkals were overrated and adored, there was already a Filipino who made it in football's Hall of Fame. Little do most Filipinos know that we have someone who not only was the first Asian to play at European leagues in the history of football, but was a superstar in his time.

His name was Paulino Alcantara, born to a Spanish father and a Filipino mother in Iloilo. His fame and legend started around 100 years ago when at the age of 15 years old, he went and played for a European football league. Paulino became more legendary after he breaks the net by scoring a goal, earning him the nickname "El Rompe Redes" or the Net Breaker. He even holds a record which no one has been able to break: 369 goals in 357 games. Recently, Paulino was named Best Asian Player of All Time by FIFA.

It is glaringly odd why a person like Paulino haven't been mentioned in the history books of the Philippines or recognized in sports. Perhaps it is because we have indulged ourselves in a sport that we can neither be exceedingly great, which is basketball. Basketball is a sport for the genetically appropriate, meaning players has to be innately bionic or extremely tall. We should try to set our sights on sports that don't require qualities that we Filipinos lack genetically like football, baseball, and many others.


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 But that is just theory. Perhaps Paulino Alcantara may still be considered an anomaly, given that he is a mestizo. The question still remains if we can replicate his greatness. Unlike in boxing, the accomplishments of Gabriel "Flash" Elorde has been exceeded by Manny Pacquiao, and our prowess in boxing has been well recognized for a long time. In football, the big leagues and the big boys are out there. Ours is just starting to bloom, or we can say we may have been gone a long time but its time that we dominate it. Whichever way we look at it, there's really something big for us in this sport. Paulino had done it 100 years ago, our people may do it again or even better.

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« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2013, 12:10:18 am »

 But that is just theory. Perhaps Paulino Alcantara may still be considered an anomaly, given that he is a mestizo. The question still remains if we can replicate his greatness. Unlike in boxing, the accomplishments of Gabriel "Flash" Elorde has been exceeded by Manny Pacquiao, and our prowess in boxing has been well recognized for a long time. In football, the big leagues and the big boys are out there. Ours is just starting to bloom, or we can say we may have been gone a long time but its time that we dominate it. Whichever way we look at it, there's really something big for us in this sport. Paulino had done it 100 years ago, our people may do it again or even better.


Kung titignan mo yung Azkals, si Caligdong at Sacapaño lang ang masasabi mong non-mestizo.. Kaya parang pati football, para na lang din dun sa mga genetically appropriate..

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« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2013, 03:44:08 am »
Nag iba na din naman yung panahon, marami nang Pilipino na nangibang bansa at doon nakapag-asawa at nagkaroon ng anak na banyaga ang ama o ina pero dahil ang isang magulang nila ay Pilipino ay karapatdapat na ituring silang Pilipino kahit na ba ang nanay o tatay lang nila ang may dugong Pilipino.

We are still one of the best in SEA basketball if not currently the best. Kahit saang baranggay ay may basketball court, pero wala kang makikitang football o futsal area man lang sa baranggay level. Yan yung isang dahilan kung bakit hindi naglalaro ng football ang mga pinoy, walang area na mapaglalaruan, hindi accessible sa masa. Yan yung problema.

Magpagawa muna ng football area sa bawat baranggay kahit futsal area lang na kumpleto with goal posts and ball, para makapaglaro ng 3 vs 3 o 5 vs 5 ang mga bata, dyan magkakaroon ng daan para yung mga Pilipino na andito sa Pilipinas ay madevelop yung basic skills sa football, yan yung nangyari sa basketball sa bansa natin, sa kanto nagsimula yung mga nasa college basketball and pro basketball ng bansa, sa baranggay level dapat magsimula yung development.

Paano ka gagaling sa football kung wala kang area na mapaglalaruan? Paano magkakaroon ng homegrown talents kung walang skill na nadevelop yung mga batang nasa Pilipinas? Yan yung pinakabasic grassroots program na dapat gawin ng PFF.

Don't expect Filipino kids without football experience to immediately go to Ateneo or FEU or Mckinley or other places where there are football pitches(pwera lang kung may football clinics), these kids need to start from their own baranggay, from their own local area.



Malapit nang malampasan ni Messi yung record ni Alcantara(but this Filipino is still considered a legend in FCB)...

"Leo Messi is still on unstoppable course to become the highest goalscorer FC Barcelona has ever had. His goal at San Mamés was number 333 in his personal account. That is the same figure achieved by Josep Samitier in all games for Barça, placing Messi joint second and only bettered by the legendary Paulino Alcántara (369).

Born in the Philippines in 1896, Alcántara played for Barça from 1912 to 1927. Known as the ‘net-breaker’, in those pre-Liga days he scored most of his goals in friendlies, the Copa Catalunya and the Spanish Cup.

Messi’s record

25 year old Leo Messi is already the club’s top scorer if only counting official matches. Of course, Messi belongs to a very different era to Alcántara, in which exhibition and challenge matches are a rarity outside of the preseason, and only 22 of his 333 goals have been scored in friendlies. The Argentinian is the only currently active player to be among the top ten FCB scorers of all time. In fact, Xavi, the next currently active player on the list, is way down in 48th with 90 goals."

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/football/first-team/detail/article/season/2012-2013/messi-equals-samitier-and-now-only-trails-alcantara

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Re: FIFA best asian player
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2013, 04:08:56 am »
korek ka jan psyprock .. di kasi naten yan kinalakihan like basketball .. sad

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Re: FIFA best asian player
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2013, 11:16:09 am »
Few years pa, this name "Sandro Reyes" will make noise in Asia even around the world.

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« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2013, 10:37:42 pm »
Sir, i think you haven't heard about the best part about Alcantara's life and that is he quit football to study medicine.
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Re: FIFA best asian player
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2013, 04:39:33 am »
May poll ang Goal.com Singapore kung sino ang top footballer ng SEA, Javier Patino is currently on top of the poll results.
Kasama din dyan si Schrock ang PYH.
Pero kung based sa liga kung saan naglalaro yung player, panalo dapat si Schrock, Bundesliga is way better than the Thai Premier League.

http://www.goal.com/en-sg/news/3883/features/2013/08/06/4166269/top-20-south-east-asian-players-the-top-10