A heavy dose of optimism surfaced with the way the Philippine Azkals performed on a rainy Monday night at Rizal Memorial Stadium despite a 3-2 loss to Chinese-Taipei in a friendly. Five months since staunch supporters of the men's national football team voiced out their displeasure over the Azkals' decline, there seems to be hope of a revival despite contrasting results of their two recent friendlies. 'You could see the fans were like joyous after the game. They probably saw that we're trying something,' said coach Michael Weiss after the second game of his second tenure handling the national squad.

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