Football: 10 years on, Azkals’ Rob Gier reflects on ‘The Miracle in Hanoi’

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A decade after, Filipino-British defender Rob Gier can still hardly believe in the stunning success of the Philippine Azkals at the 2010 Suzuki Cup, kicking off with “The Miracle in Hanoi” that led to

the country’s historic first semifinal appearance in the tournament.

“We actually qualified for by the skin of our teeth,” Gier, in a one-on one webcast over the weekend, recalled of the ordeal the national team went through to reach the Cup’s regular stage in Hanoi in December 2010. That hint of disrespect directed at the Filipinos, Gier said, did not fluster him at all “because that wasn’t my main source of motivation. National pride and team pride comes in more than anything else.”

“Whenever you play that system you make sure you have to make things tight in the first 15 to 20 minutes.Historic result vs Singapore Videos of the match show that from out of nowhere, the Britain-based Filipino midfielder broke loose, taking a cross from Phil Younghusband and, in front of three Lions defenders, slotted in the tying goal from just outside the box in the 93rd to save the day for the embattled Filipinos.

“But Gener came and did the job unbelievably well,” Gier reminisced of the Barotac Nuevo town, Iloilo, pride, who at 36 was the oldest player on that squad then. The Azkals’ last group match on Dec. 5, 2010, in that breakthrough series proved to be anti-climactic: a scoreless deadlock against Myanmar, “which wasn’t one of our better games,” Gier acknowledged.

 

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