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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Fans want RP booters to be named ‘Askals’
By Mike T. Limpag
Sun.Star Correspondent
The Netherlands has the Orangemen, France is Les Bleus, and Italy has the Azures. Philippine football fans want to call their national team Askals.
The menacing street dog has just been elevated to national icon status after a few fans threw around an idea on what to call the national team in an Internet forum dedicated to Philippine football.
Names like Tamaraws and Eagles came up first before the fans agreed on Askal, short for asong kalye or street dog.
The idea started after national coach Aries Caslib appealed for more fan participation in the 23rd Southeast Asian Games (Seag), where the country will try to win its first medal in football.
Caslib appealed for vocal support after seeing how the other countries supported their teams in last year’s Tiger Cup.
One fan has come up with an Askal logo, and plans to have it reproduced on shirts and flags are being discussed by regular posters Graeme Mackinnon, Paul Weiler and others.
Even coach Caslib is on with the idea: “I want to know if the design for the Askal is final because we might help in producing the shirts,” he told Sun.Star Cebu in an earlier interview.
As to whether the national team will be as menacing as the street dog is left to be seen as they are still to test their readiness in a pre-Seag tournament in Vietnam before leaving for a month-long training in China.
(July 13, 2005 issue)
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