Athletes: More Fun in the Philippines (Part 1)
This is a series of posts about the curious case of attractive Filipino athletes in the international scene. Part 1 discusses football and basketball. James and Phil Younghusband, modern sports celebrities of Asia. Admit it. We Filipinos have the best-looking athletes in Asia . We seem so blessed with talented people who happened to be raised with a foreign parentage on either side (father or mother), grown up somewhere else (particularly in Europe), and speak a different language other than those we used to speak. Lately, with the emergence of the Philippine national football team , fondly called the Azkals , it seemed there was a sudden boom of athletic talent and national pride that is topped with a certain sex appeal no sport pundit ever expected. Our country was soon littered with sport stars-slash-sex symbols . In RJ Ledesma's recent column on the Philippine Star , where he interviewed Loyola Meralco Sparks and national team striker Phil Younghusband (right of ab...