{"id":13547,"date":"2017-03-02T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=13547"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:45:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T08:45:45","slug":"following-incredible-showing-at-qualifier-b-neymar-jrs-five-prepares-for-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/following-incredible-showing-at-qualifier-b-neymar-jrs-five-prepares-for-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Following incredible showing at Qualifier B, Neymar Jr\u2019s Five prepares for finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, February 25, Neymar Jr\u2019s Five returned to Sparta Philippines for another round of exciting matches. Over a dozen teams squared off with just four making it to next week\u2019s finals: Manila Tala, Strafford FC, Baggie FC, and Naxional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13549\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Manila-Tala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Manila-Tala.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Manila-Tala-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>MANILA TALA<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13551\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Strafford-FC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Strafford-FC.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Strafford-FC-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>STRAFFORD FC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Neymar Jr\u2019s Five is the Brazilian forward\u2019s signature football tournament which pits five-a-side teams in head-to-head in 10-minute matches with a twist. Every time one team scores, the opposition loses a player. It\u2019s fast, technical, and tactical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13554\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Action_069.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Action_069.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Action_069-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On hand for the festivities was Daniel Matsunaga, who represented popular Brazilian-bistro, Naxional South American Diner, as Team Captain. \u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s football. I have loved it since I was a kid and I always find time to play. It\u2019s exciting to have these kinds of tournament in the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13552\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Action_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Action_07.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Action_07-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also on hand, was former team captain of the Azkals, Chieffey Caligdong. \u201cIt\u2019s challenging and I really enjoyed the game. It was my first time playing street soccer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13550\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Naxional_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Naxional_02.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Naxional_02-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NAXIONAL<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13553\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Baggie-FC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Baggie-FC.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Baggie-FC-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BAGGIE FC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eight teams now advance to the March 4th Finals, including Naxional, Baggie FC, Strafford FC, Manila Tala \u2013 from Qualifier B, and Underground, El Retiro, Kidzania, and Laro, featuring football star, Anton Del Rosario \u2013 from Qualifier A last February 18th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2017\/03\/01\/elite-eight-neymar-jrs-five-philippine-finals\/\">The Finals<\/a> will happen this coming Saturday, March 4th at SPARTA Philippines, in Mandaluyong. It\u2019s going to be another action-packed afternoon to witness who will be playing on Neymar Jr\u2019s home turf.<\/p>\n<p>Dare to dream, and outplay them all!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a press release.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, February 25, Neymar Jr\u2019s Five returned to Sparta Philippines for another round of exciting matches. Over a dozen teams squared off with just four making it to next week\u2019s finals: Manila Tala, Strafford FC, Baggie FC, and Naxional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Finalists-Baggie-FC-Naxional-Strafford-FC-Manila-Tala.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13555,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions\/13555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}