dream... and believe...

i don't really watch any sports (much more play)... but walking by i chanced upon the first goal of the philippines vs. kuwait 2014 FIFA world cup asian qualifier on TV...  48 minutes into the game, it was scored by stephan schrock of the philippine azkals...  boy, did the crowd go wild... thank you very much, stephan...  : )

that was followed by a recap of the best moments of the first half of the leg 2 qualifier...  hmmm...  i decided to sit the game through...

yousef nasser  of kuwait's al-azraq caught my eye and broke my heart soon after by scoring the first goal for kuwait which evened out the score (my heart, of course, remained with the philippine team)...

the game ended with a 1 - 2 score in favor of kuwait shutting out the philippines from the 2014 world cup...

from the commentaries after, i learned that it really was a long shot for the philippines and that the azkals were outclassed by the al-azraq all along...

oh...  explains the battlecry...

well...  it's okay, guys...  you gave your all...  just as important as the outcome is that at some point you gave us a dream...  and 'we believe'...