Could it be that after the first game of the Philippine Azkals against South Korea in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Phil Younghusband was immediately shipped back to Manila?

We are throwing the question to Sven-Goran Eriksson, the Philippine side’s coach from Sweden, who fielded Younghusband as a substitute (?) in the dying, virtually last-two minutes of the Azkals’ eventually losing stand, 0-1, against the fancied Taeguk Warriors.

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