Breakthrough triumphs provide silver lining for Team Philippines
Manila Bulletin
|December 29, 2025
Records broken.
Droughts ended. Team Philippines may have only finished sixth and came 10 medals short of its 60-gold target in the 33rd Southeast Asian Games, but breakthrough triumphs illuminated redeeming light to what could be easily a gloomy and underwhelming campaign in Bangkok, Thailand.Queens of the field, empress of the sand
At the forefront of those saving graces were the Filipinas, who once again, put PH football to a pedestal it has never been able to reach in the past.
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