MANILA: Shirts are selling briskly, crowds pack sports bars to watch matches and football is front-page news. Whisper it quietly, but basketball-crazy Philippines has finally been afflicted by World Cup fever.
For decades, the nation of more than 100 million was on a very short list of global locations that had failed to fall for the beautiful game.
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