Filipinas finish Vietnam reign, seize first-ever SEA Video games crown after thrilling shootout

The Philippines denies Vietnam a fifth straight ladies’s soccer title within the Southeast Asian Video games because the Filipinas crown themselves the brand new queens of the area

CHONBURI, Thailand – The Philippine ladies’s nationwide soccer staff has a knack for making historical past by means of penalty shootouts.

It was no completely different on Wednesday, December 17, because the Filipinas captured a historic gold medal within the Southeast Asian Video games as they denied Vietnam a fifth straight title by profitable on penalties, 6-5, following a scoreless attract a pulsating remaining on the Chonburi Daikin Stadium right here.

Jael Marie Man, Alexa Pino, Hali Lengthy, Angie Beard, Ariana Isabella Markey, and Jaclyn Sawicki all transformed on their penalties earlier than goalkeeper Olivia McDaniel sealed the victory by stopping the final Vietnamese try. 

Celebration erupted when McDaniel blocked the shot of Tran Thi Thu because the Philippines grew to become simply the third nation to win the SEA Video games title in ladies’s soccer, an occasion that had been dominated by the duopoly of Vietnam and Thailand. 

The SEA Video games crown is one other feather within the cap for the Filipinas, who rose to nationwide consciousness following their historic qualification to the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup after they beat Chinese language Taipei on penalties within the quarterfinals of the 2022 AFC Girls’s Asian Cup.

A penalty shootout as soon as once more went in favor of the Filipinas as they reached the SEA Video games gold-medal match for the primary time by outlasting Thailand within the semifinals final Sunday, December 14. – Rappler.com