| Why do Filipinos excel more in individual sports than team sports?
Can't we produce an Asian Games basketball champion team? How about a
formidable football squad that can rival with some of the Europian
foots band? And what the hell happened to our RP Blue Boys who are once
feared in the Asian baseball circuit?
Is our inclination on being successful in individual sports (and
disinclination in winning in team sports) any way indicative that
Pinoys prefer to achieve "individual greatness" rather than "collective
triump or group victory"? Is Filipino team work not good enough?
Just a thought... Anyway here's a short list of successful (both past and present) Pinoy champion sportsmen:
- Manny Pacquiao - Boxing
- Mansueto "Onyok" Velasco - Boxing
- Gabriel "Flash" Elorde - Boxing
- Efren "Bata" Reyes - Billiards
- Francisco Bustamante - Billiards
- Ronato Alcano - Billiards
- Mikee Cojuangco Jaworski - Equestrian
- Tony Leviste - Equestrian
- Paeng Nepomuceno - Bowling (Hall of Fame)
- Eric Buhain - Swimming
- Teofilo "Ilocano Shark" Yldefonso - Swimming
- Lydia De Vega - Athletics
- Elma Muros - Athletics
- Simeon Toribio - Athletics (Filipino Field Athlete of the Half Century)
- Eugenio Torre - Chess
- Jethro Dionisio - Shooting
- Dorothy Delasin - Golf
- Jennifer Rosales - Golf
- Donal David Geisler -Taekwando
- Salvador Del Rosario - Weightlifting
Other Pinoy champions... |