Filipinas eyes to culminate homegrown talents

The Philippine women’s football team will commence a six-day training camp beginning this Saturday, August 17, at the Rizal Memorial Football Stadium.

Coach Mark Torcaso will stage the camp from August 17 to 23 aimed at tapping more local-based players to its talent pool.

About 30 players will be invited to the camp and it is the first activity of the Filipinas since the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) took over the role of managing the national women’s side.

“The main objective of the upcoming camp is for the coaching staff to build our local player pool and to provide our local players the opportunity to be seen and assessed by the coaching staff,” national team’s director Freddy Gonzalez said in a statement.

“This is very important, as we need our locally based players to be aware of the game model we are building for the Philippine women’s national football team. In the case that any of them are called up, they will be ready to perform,” he added.

The Filipinas have a quiet calendar compared to last year when they made a historic appearance in the FIFA Women’s World Cup, apart from reaching the quarterfinals of the Hangzhou Asian Games and the second round of the Paris Olympics.

The final day of the Filipinas camp, meanwhile, is open for fans and the media.