The streets dogs of Manila

Published in The Blizzard among others, issue 12, 2014

With the Philippines being home to a variety of diasporic communities, the national football team can recruit star players from various nations to build a strong team in a country without an established tradition in the sport. Javier Sauras and I travelled to the town Bacolod to meet the national team members, or “Azkals” (Filipino for street dogs), at a tournament and observe the collaboration and comradery. The players spoke numerous languages and identified as much as Spaniards, Germans, Brits, US-Americans or Swiss as Filipino. This feature on the most international national team in the world was also published in various media on the German-language market.

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With the Philippines being home to a variety of diasporic communities, the national football team can recruit star players from various nations to build a strong team in a country without an established tradition in the sport. Javier Sauras and I travelled to the town Bacolod to meet the national team members, or “Azkals” (Filipino for street dogs), at a tournament and observe the collaboration and comradery. The players spoke numerous languages and identified as much as Spaniards, Germans, Brits, US-Americans or Swiss as Filipino. This feature on the most international national team in the world was also published in various media on the German-language market.

Read the story as published in:

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