Name Amani Aguinaldo Career start 2012 2012–2013 Loyola Weight 77 kg | Number 12 Height 1.82 m Playing position Role Footballer | |
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Full name Amani Manuel Santos Aguinaldo Date of birth (1995-04-24) 24 April 1995 (age 20) Current teams Philippines national football team (Defender), Global F.C. (Defender) Similar People Patrick Deyto, Daisuke Sato, Kenshiro Daniels, Mark Hartmann, Misagh Bahadoran | ||
Place of birth Las Pinas, Philippines | ||
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Amani Manuel Santos Aguinaldo (born 24 April 1995), is a Filipino footballer who plays as a defender mainly as a Centre Back for Global in the United Football League, and Philippines national team.
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- Amani aguinaldo football highlight video
- Education
- Club career
- International career
- Personal life
- References
Education
Aguinaldo attended Ateneo de Davao until grade 6 and transferred to Far Eastern University – FERN College where he attended high school. Aguinaldo is taking Sports Science at the University of the Philippines. As of December 2014, he is on his second year.
Club career
After Aguinaldo was scouted by Coach Kim Chul-soo and program director Vince Santos both from Far Eastern University, which prompted him to transfer to Far Eastern University – FERN College where he attended high school. He played a year with the Far Eastern University at the college level before moving to the University of the Philippines.
He was later signed with the Loyola Meralco Sparks where he debuted as a substitute player at Loyala's stint at the 2012 Singapore Cup. He later transferred to Global.
International career
In August 2013, he was named in the 21-man squad for the international friendly match against Indonesia on 14 August 2013. He earned his first senior international cap on the said match by replacing James Younghusband in 63rd minute.
He made his first appearance for the under-23 national team in the 1–0 friendly match loss against Singapore on 13 June 2013.
Aguinaldo was a member of the Philippines' squad at both the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup and the 2014 AFF Championship, reaching the finals and semi-finals respectively in each competition. During the latter tournament Aguinaldo was involved in a fair bit of controversy in the first leg of the semi-final as Thai striker Adisak Kraisorn was sent off for an off the ball altercation with the Filipino defender. It appeared that Aguinaldo might have provoked the confrontation and afterwards he and other Filipino footballers received threats from Thai fans.
Personal life
Aguinaldo is an only child of Ariel and Maida Aguinaldo who both had roots to Davao. His name Amani is derived from an African title meaning both "warrior" and "peace". He was born in Las Piñas, but due to his parent's professions his family moved to Cebu and then Davao City where Aguinaldo spent most of his childhood, before moving back to the Manila area where he attended high school. Aguinaldo took up football from his father at the age of five, and nine years later he was called up to the Philippines U-14 by future Loyola coach Kim Chul-soo. At the age of 16 Aguinaldo was selected to play for the u-21 side at the 2012 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy. During the tournament Aguinaldo was roomed with twins Marwin and Marvin and became good friends with both. His favorite teams are Manchester City, Bayern Munich, A.C. Milan, and Real Madrid, although his favorite footballer is Lionel Messi.