Azkals vs Kuwait Live Streaming Updates

The 1st leg of the Philippine Azkals vs Kuwait Al-Azraq game in Round 2 of 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualification Stage is happening right now in Kuwait, and is being aired live on ABS-CBN Channel 2.

Azkals team captain Aly Borromeo and midfielder Stephan Schrock have been suspended by the FIFA Disciplinary Commitee and aren't playing for the team after they incurred 2 yellow cards during their last game vs Sri Lanka. Jason Sabio and Jason De Jong fill in.

Here's the starting 11 line-up for the Philippine Azkals in their match vs Kuwait Al-Azraq:

#10 Phil Younghusband
#13 Chieffy Caligdong
#12 Angel Aldeguer Guirado
#7 James Younghusband
#8 Manuel Ott
#21 Jason De Jong
#27 Ray Jonsson
#2 Rob Gier
#4 Anton Del Rosario
#3 Jason Sabio
#1 Neil Etheridge

The Azkals are in white, while Kuwait team wears blue.

Game has started...at 12:30 AM (Philippine Time) being aired live on ABS-CBN Channel 2.

Angel Guirado hurt badly at 5th minute. Kuwait's player #4 was booked with a yellow card.

Player #20 Yousef Nasser of Kuwait scored 1st goal, at 17th minute.

Half-time stats:
Goals Scored - Kuwait 1, Philippines 0
Goal Attempts - Kuwait 7, Philippines 5
Corner Kicks - Kuwait 5, Philippines 2
Yello Cards - Kuwait 1, Philippines 0

Player #13 Musaed Neda of Kuwait scored the 2nd goal, at 68th minute of the game. #13 later got a yellow card at 75th minute, the 2nd yellow card for Kuwait.

Another goal scored for Kuwait at 85th min., by Player #11 Fahed Al-Ibrahim.

Extra time of 4 minutes, #5 Simon Greatwich subs in for Chieffy Caligdong. Greatwich was later booked with a yellow card at 93rd minute.

Fil-Iranian Misagh Bahadoran, Player #14 of the Azkals, subs in for Angel Guirado.

Game ends...Kuwait 3-0 Philippines.

The Leg 2 of the Philippines vs Kuwait Match will be held this July 28, 2011 at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.

Azkals vs Kuwait live at midnight on ABS-CBN 2

The Philippine Azkals will probably play its toughest game ever tonight as the team faces Kuwait in Leg 1 of their campaign for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

The "Azkals vs Kuwait" Leg 1 - 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers will be held tonight, July 23, 2011, at the Qadsia Stadium in Kuwait.

It will be aired on ABS-CBN, with live coverage starting at 11:30 PM right after Banana Split Extra Scoop. 

Game kicks off at 12:30 AM, that's already a Sunday, July 24, 2011. So better not sleep yet tonight, or sleep early, then just wake up at midnight to watch the "Azkals vs Kuwait" game live on ABS-CBN 2.

The Kuwaiti National Football Team ranks 102nd in FIFA World Ranking while the Philippine Azkals is only ranked 159th.

While it's Azkals' first time to enter FIFA World Cup Qualification Stage and make it to this level (2nd Round), Kuwait has already reached 3rd Round during the 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification Stage.

The Philippines has never played in a main tournament of FIFA World Cup but Kuwait already did it in 1982.

But let's think positive, the Azkals will win vs Kuwait tonight.

If you can't catch tonight's game live on ABS-CBN, you can watch a replay tomorrow, Sunday, at 9:30 AM, still on ABS-CBN, then at 3:00 PM on BALLS channel and at 10:00 PM on STUDIO 23.

Mykiru Isyusero will also do live blogging updates of the Azkals vs Kuwait game tonight, so stay tuned!

Azkals vs Sri Lanka Leg 2 video replay

Azkals vs Sri Lanka Leg 2 Results: 4-0

The Azkals scored not 2 or 3 but 4 goals during its home match vs a goal-less Sri Lanka held Sunday at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.

It was the 2nd leg of the Azkals vs Sri Lanka was held 4 days after the 1st leg in Sri Lanka, which resulted to a draw (1-1).

Their aggregate scores were 5 for the Philippine Azkals and only 1 for Sri Lanka.
Watch a video replay of how the Azkals scored the 4 goals during its game vs Sri Lanka:

1st goal scored by Chieffy Caligdong at 18th minute


2nd goal by Phil Younghusband during the 42nd minute (with "gf" Angel Locsin being shown at the crowd cheering for Phil's 1st goal)


3rd goal made by Angel Aldeguer Guirado at 50th minute


4th goal by Phil Younghusband again at 56th min. (Angel is shown again after Phil scored his 2nd goal)

The Philippine Azkals will now face a tougher football team from Kuwait on July 23 and 28 for the 2nd Round of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers.

Video uploads courtesy of tagailaya

Angel Locsin and Phil Younghusband for Century Tuna

Angel Locsin and Phil Younghusband reveal their sexier and healthier bods on their first TVC together as Century Tuna endorsers.


In her previous ad for Century Tuna, Angel Locsin was with hunk actor Derek Ramsay, and this time, she's with rumored boyfriend Phil Younghusband of the Azkals.

Did Phil replace Derek as Century Tuna endorser? Or Derek also has a new one coming up?

Even before this new ad of Angel and Phil, Derek has already appeared solo in a Century Tuna Paella TVC.

The new Century Tuna TVC featuring Angel Locsin and Phil Younghusband has already started airing on TV today and it's really hot.

And I super love this particular scene of Phil and Angel:

Kilig-much!

Watch the said TVC:


Behind-the-scene video:

Other endorsers of Century Tuna are real-life lovers Piolo Pascual and KC Concepcion for "Corned Tuna" and Aljur Abrenica for Century Tuna Healthylicious Hotdog.

Azkals or Philippine Volcanoes: Who's hotter?

The Philippine Azkals are hot, that's a fact, but some people are saying that the men from the Philippine Rugby Team, who call themselves as the Philippine Volcanoes, are way hotter.

These pictures and video of the Philippine Volcanoes for Bench Body underwear would tell you why...

Kenneth Stern, Patrice Bolivier and Chris Everingham

Oliver Saunders and Nicholas Perry

Ned Stephenson and Michael De Guzman

Jake Letts and Francisco "Kit" Guerra IV

Darran Seeto and Chris Everingham

The Philippine Rugby Team behind-the-scene video for Bench Body:

But wait, the battle of hotness between the Philippine Azkals and the Philippine Volcanoes simply doesn't end up there. It's just starting actually as Bench has also released just last Friday a photo of Azkals' team captain Aly Borromeo also posing in a Bench Body underwear.

Is it just a teaser for more Azkals players stripping down to their Bench Body underwear?

Definitely, the rivalry between the Philippine Azkals and the Philippine Volcanoes has just started and is now heating up.

Azkals vs Sri Lanka Live Updates

The Philippine Azkals faced Sri Lanka in its first qualifying playoff for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

The Azkals (Philippines) vs Sri Lanka football match happened at the Colombo Sugathadasa Stadium with live coverage on Studio 23 which started at 5:20 PM and the game kicked off at 6:30PM.

LIVE SCORE UPDATE: Sri Lanka 1, Philippines 1
Sri Lanka's Chathura Gunarathna scores first goal 4 minutes before 2nd half of the game (41st minute)
Not giving his best performance, Phil Younghusband was replaced by Fil-Am Nate Burkey before halftime.
Burkey scored the first goal for the Philippine Azkals 4 minutes after the 2nd half (at 49th minute). He was later replaced by Ian Araneta.
Azkals' players who got 1 yellow card each were James Younghusband, Stephan Schrock and Aly Borromeo.
Sri Lanka also received 3 yellow cards. One each for Anton Nimal Fernando, Nadeeka Pushpakumara and Safraz Kaiz.
Game ends in a draw with 1 goal each for Sri Lanka and Philippines.

Here's the Philippine Azkals' line-up on today's match vs Sri Lanka:

Team Captain: Aly Borromeo
Goalkeeper: Neil Etheridge
Strikers: Phil Younghusband, Angel Aldeguer Guirado, Misagh Bahadoran, Ricardo Bicete
Midfielders: James Younghusband, Emilio "Chieffy" Caligdong, Manuel Ott, Jerry Lucena, Stephan Schrock, Nate Burkey
Defence: Aly Borromeo, Anton del Rosario, Rob Gier, Ray Jonsson, Roel Gener, Jason Sabio

The Azkals' starting 11 line-up included Etheridge, Borromeo, Gier, Phil and James Younghusband, Caligdong, Guirado, Mulders, Ott, Shrock and Del Rosario while Sabio, Bahadoran, Araneta and Burkey were subsitutes.

Other qualifying matches for Asian countries are also happening simultaneously with the Philippinez vs Sri Lanka June 29 match being held in different venues, such as Cambodia vs Laos, Nepal vs Timor-Leste, Afghanistan vs Palestine, Bangladesh vs Pakistan, Mongolia vs Myanmar, Vietnam vs Macau and Malaysia vs Taipei.

But the Philippines vs Sri Lanka playoff was predicted to end up as among the 3 most interesting from those 8 matches.

The 2nd leg of the Azkals vs Sri Lanka will be on July 3 to be held at the Rizal Memorial Football Field.

Phil Younghusband only met KC del Rosario once, says Phil's brother James

Phil Younghusband is reportedly dating not only actress Angel Locsin, but also a non-showbiz girl identified as KC del Rosario.

According to an SNN report last Tuesday, June 7, there's a rumor that Phil Younghusband already has a girlfriend (KC) who was once linked to Kapamilya actor Matteo Guidicelli.

It even showed one photo of KC with Matteo which was posted here on Mykiru Isyusero last year. (View: Matteo Guidicelli pictures with rumored girlfriend)

When asked about KC during a media launch for his new endorsement (VitWater Power drink), the SNN report showed Phil making no comment and walked out of the venue which led the viewers to think that there may be some truth to the rumor.

SNN host Boy Abunda reacted on the report and seemed unhappy about Phil making no comment and his "walkout" scene.

However, a report on abs-cbnNEWS.com the next day stated that Phil did make a comment about KC during the presscon. "I don't know. I don't know who KC is," Phil told the press, "I don't know anything. I don't know anything about it."

On Twitter (@PhilYHusband), Phil responded to a question from a fan and said that he's not close to anyone named KC.

He also made it clear that he didn't walk out, "To all those who came in the vitpower launch last tue,tnx for coming.sorry wasn't able to stay longr had to leave for training.tnx so much."

So maybe there was just a misunderstanding. Phil had to leave and maybe some people (mis)interpreted it as a walkout.

KC del Rosario meanwhile also posted on Twitter (@kcskyy) last June 8 possibly a reaction to the SNN report about her:

On tonight's newscast of TV Patrol, Phil's brother James was interviewed about Phil and KC during the Azkals Send-Off party organized by ABS-CBN and there James admitted that he knows KC because she's a schoolmate of his girlfriend (Fiona Faulkner) and Phil already met her once.

But he stressed that Angel Locsin is the only girl in his brother's eyes.

“KC goes to the same school as my girlfriend. Just to clarify, Phil met KC once. Angel is only in Phil's eyes,” James said, as reported on TV Patrol.

It's not the first time that Phil got involved in an issue like this one.

Last March, there was also the same kind of rumor that he already has a girlfriend named Denisse Oca and a month after, Phil was also rumored having a child to a woman from Iloilo.

Can't wait for the next rumor.