Today's game against the Incheon Citizen FC saw the Azkals sport a red kit with a KIA logo, the number imprinted at the back is colored yellow (at least that's how it appeared on TV), and it did not display the players' names. It's refreshing to see the national squad in red, but I'm not certain if the choice of color is intentional since they traditionally wear blue. Or is it because the Koreans wore a light blue kit. I think red is a lousy color though. After all there are too many ASEAN teams wearing red like Singapore, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
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Azkals goal scorer Marwin Angeles, as we are told by Studio 23 commentators, missed the cut in the Under-23 squad that competed in the SEA games. His outside the box goal was made possible by a set piece play when the team was desperately pushing forward as the clock was approaching the 90th minute mark. Would he have made a difference with the team in Jakarta? That's unlikely.
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Studio 23 made a decent coverage of the Azkals-Incheon Citizen FC game with their combination of local and English commentary (and I mean a Filipino and an Englishman). I'm just puzzled with the term "End of Regulation" that the network used to describe the end of the 90-minute time and stoppage time. Do you think it's more of a basketball term instead of football. To my knowledge, I think the "End of Full-Time" is the more appropriate term.
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Speaking of Studio 23 again, their graphics for a penalty shootout needs some improvement. Usually, with what I see in football games during a penalty shootout, there are two rows with 5 circles each representing the attempts given to each team. When a team scores in each attempt, the circle turns to green, and red or blank if they miss. I'm not sure if the network prepared for such a scenario tonight. Showing the total score is a nice thing, but for the benefit of the viewers they also need to show how many attempts have already been made so far.
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