PH Asian Games roster released, but change likely for national squads
Clockwise from prime: Justin Brownlee, Bryan Bagunas, Hali Lengthy and Ange Kouame had been named to their respective nationwide —FILE PHOTOS
The rosters of nationwide groups for girls’s soccer, males’s basketball and males’s volleyball to the Asian Video games had been launched on Tuesday, however adjustments to the names listed are more likely to be made.
The listing was submitted by the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) final July 25 primarily to fulfill a deadline set by the organizing committee of the occasion that will probably be held in Hangzhou, China. World Cup standouts Sarina Bolden, Olivia McDaniel and Hali Lengthy headline the ladies’s nationwide soccer group.
Nineteen gamers from that historic squad made the preliminary Asian Video games reduce. POC president Bambol Tolentino stated any adjustments “must be appealed to the Hangzhou Asian Video games Organizing Committee.”
For males’s basketball, seven holdovers from the Gilas Pilipinas 2023 Fiba World Cup roster are going to see motion within the twelfth staging of the continental Olympics later this month.
Kiefer Ravena, Scottie Thompson, RR Pogoy, June Mar Fajardo, CJ Perez, Japeth Aguilar, Jamie Malonzo are set to reprise their roles and backstop naturalized ace Justin Brownlee within the marketing campaign at Hangzhou.
“The deadline for the Entry by Names was final July 25 and no matter listing a nationwide Olympic committee submitted is deemed official,” the POC stated in an announcement launched to the press on Tuesday.
Professional standouts
Gilas Pilipinas coach Chot Reyes throughout a recreation towards Italy within the Fiba World Cup. -MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
The PBA, nevertheless, is reportedly set to announce the Asian Video games group on Thursday and lots of anticipate the squad to be made up of standouts from the professional league.
Extra importantly, the POC lists Chot Reyes as head coach of Gilas Pilipinas and Tim Cone as his assistant.
Reyes has already stepped down as nationwide coach.
In the meantime, Marck Espejo and Bryan Bagunas lead the 12-man roster of the Philippine males’s volleyball group, which will probably be competing within the Asiad for the primary time in 49 years.
The hard-hitting pair will banner the squad below Brazilian coach Sergio Veloso as they had been slotted in Group F with Southeast Asian Video games champion Indonesia, Volleyball Nations League bronze medalist Japan, and Afghanistan throughout the draw of the 19 squads final July.
Reigning MVP
Bagunas advised the Inquirer that he has dedicated to taking part in within the Asian Video games, however sources stated the group can be more likely to differ from the one launched by the POC.
Bagunas is the reigning MVP of Taiwan’s High Volleyball League after steering the Win Streak membership to a championship, whereas Espejo would be the Incheon Korean Air Jumbos’ first Asian import within the upcoming Korean V-League.
The opposite members of the lads’s basketball squad are Ange Kouame and Brandon Ganuelas-Rosser, together with Chris Newsome and Calvin Oftana—the ultimate cuts from the Gilas squad that completed twenty fourth total within the ongoing World Cup.Within the 2018 Asiad, the nationwide federation and the PBA despatched a group made up of Rain or Shine’s core strengthened by a younger Jordan Clarkson.
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