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MANILA, Philippines – Finally, Team Phil and Team James are ready to set off with their line-ups completed for the second Clear Dream Match.
The Younghusband brothers and Clear rivals drafted their teams from a pool of 50 players from the Philippine Azkals and the United Football League. Phil won the fan polls in the Clear Dream Match Facebook page and was awarded the advantage of picking first in the drafting event held at the Megamall Events Center on Saturday, August 10.
Aiming to be bigger and better this year, Clear will not only showcase local football talents in the most-awaited all-star exhibition match of the year as they bring in world football legends 2006 World Cup Champion Fabio Cannavaro and former Chelsea Captain Dennis Wise to spice up the competition.
“James is more competitive this year. I have different tactics now,” said Phil Younghusband who won last year’s match, 5-1.
Asked if he did something different this time, Phil shared that he did just the same as last year regarding on planning his team.
The two freely chose their first 5 while the rest of the players were randomly picked from 4 different bowls comprised of defenders, forwards, midfielders, and goal keepers.
Phil’s first pick was Global FC midfielder Carlie De Murga while James chose defender Yves Ashime who formerly belonged to his brother’s squad.
“I chose a right mixture of defenders, midfielders, and strikers,” said James who is determined of getting even this year.
Cannavaro and Wise will fill the last two seats.
Chelsea legend Wise, in a video, said he has always liked the feeling of winning. Thus, he chose the team of last year’s winner, Phil. Italian superstar Fabio Cannavaro, meanwhile, picked Team James.
The second edition of the Clear Dream Match will kick off on August 24 at the University of Makati Stadium still for the benefit of Tuloy sa Don Bosco Foundation.
TEAM PHIL
Dennis Wise
Carlie De Murga
Jeff Christiaens
Park Min Ho
OJ Porteria
Patrick Deyto
Chad Gould
Masonari Omura
Jinggoy Valmayor
Chris Greatwich
Byeong Yeol Jeong
Anton Del Rosario
Boyet Canedo
Sam YG
Nick O’Donnell
Armand Del Rosario
Mikko Mabanag
Rufo Sanchez
Ronald Batisla-Ong
TEAM JAMES
Fabio Cannavaro
Yves Ashime
Jason De Jong
Misagh Bahadoran
Saba Garmaroudi
Oussenyou Diop
Roxy Dorlas
Chieffy Caligdong
Tony Toni
Nicolas Bolzico
Jonah Romero
Ian Araneta
Simon Greatwich
Andrew Santiago
Daniel Matsunaga
Slick Rick
Fabio Ide
Ref Cuaresma
Izzo Habbib
– Rappler.com
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