Former USA international and Columbus Crew star Thomas Dooley is the new coach of the Philippines national team.

Dooley was confirmed as coach on Friday.

"Forget about the World Cup," Dooley said. "We need to play the World Cup ... but we are so far away from that that if they don't win the Challenge Cup we can't play in the next 25 years for that. But if we can win the Challenge Cup, we have another goal then."

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