Azkals gear up for Doha 2022 Asian qualifier

FOUR under-22 players and 19 veterans make up the men’s national team that will vie in the Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 and Asian Football Confederation Asian Cup China 2023 Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 2.

Head Coach Goran Miloievic announced on Monday the composition of the team that takes on Maldives on Thursday at the National Stadium in Maldives and Syria on November 19 at the Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium in Dubai.

The Azkals are currently sitting on a 1-1-1 won-lost-drawn card in the Group A of the qualification round.

The team is composed of goalkeepers Patrick Phillip Deyto of Suphanburi (Thailand), Neil Leonard Etheridge of Cardiff City and Michael Aksel Falkesgaard of

Bangkok United (Thailand).

The defenders are Amani Manuel Aguinaldo of PKNP FC (Malaysia), Marco Casambre of Chainat Hornbill (Thailand) Mikel Justin Baaz of AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands), Carlos Alberto De Murga and Sean Patrick Kane of Ceres Negros, Daisuke Sato of Muangthong United (Thailand), Alvaro Silva of Suphanburi (Thailand), Martin Markus Steuble of Port (Thailand), Edison Suerti of Brattvag IL (Norway) and Luke Woodland of Kuala Lumpur FA (Malaysia).

Also on the team are Midfielders Yrick

Gallantes of Hibernian (Scotland), Angel Guirado if Chonburi (Thailand), Mike Rigoberto Ott of Ceres Negros, Iain Ramsay of Sukhothai (Thailand), Stephan Markus Schrock of Ceres Negros and John-Patrick Strauss of Erzgebirge Aue (Germany).

The forwards Curt Jordan Dizom of Chonburi FC (Thailand) Mark Hartmann of Nakhon Ratchasima Mazda (Thailand), Jose Elmer Porteria of Ceres Negros and Patrick Reichelt of Melaka United (Malaysia) complete the team.

The under-22 players are Baas, Casambre, Gallantes and Suerti.

Assisting Miloievic are Hezirdan Ramadani, goalkeeping coach Milos Simic, Team Manager Dan Palami and Assistant Manager Scott Joseph Cooper.