PHNOM PENH: Experience will only make the Philippine national women's football team stronger.
Coach Allen Stajcic said this after the team pulled off a 2-1 upset of defending champion Vietnam, but still failed to advance to the semifinal round of the 32nd Southeast Asian Games' women's football tournament on Tuesday evening at the Smart-RSN Stadium, Toul Kourk District here.
The heroics of the team's top-scorer in Sarina Bolden and Halli Long went for naught after Myanmar repulsed Malaysia with a massive 5-1 rout at the Old Stadium in the other side of the city.Both the Philippines and Myanmar finished with a 2-0-1 win-draw-loss record, but it was the latter, which joined Vietnam in the semis on a better goal differenceThe champs took the top berth with their 2-0-1 slate.The other two semifinalists are Cambodia and Thailand.
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