Yanti Barsales

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Yanti Barsales
Personal information
Full name Yanti Armentia Barsales
Date of birth (1973-02-06) February 6, 1973 (age 51)
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1994– Philippine Air Force
International career
1992–2011 Philippines 30 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yanti Armentia Barsales [1] (born February 6, 1973) is a Filipino footballer who currently play as a forward for the Philippine Air Force where he is the club captain and the Philippines national team. As of 2024, he is the second oldest footballer to still playing professionally behind Kazuyoshi Miura.

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Early life and education

Barsales was born on February 6, 1973, and grew up in Magpet, North Cotabato. He would discover football when his family moved to Iloilo. He took up the sport when he was attending Iloilo State College of Fisheries (ISCF) in Tiwi, Barotac Nuevo, for his high school studies. He also simultaneously worked in the fishponds, improving his own physique at a young age. [2]

Club career

Barsales went on to play for the Barotac Nuevo team in the 1989 Coke Go-For-Goal national championship in the U16 division. His hometown team would reach the finals. Having a built more developed than his peers at the time, the rival team filed a formal protest against Barsales alleging he was overaged. The complaint was entertained but later dismissed. He would later help the Iloilo win the U19 Adidas Cup title and garnered the most valuable player award. [2]

Barsales, would become an enlisted personnel of the Philippine Air Force was part of its club. He played for Air Force from 1994 until his retirement from military service in 2022. [2]

PAF would play in the de facto top-flight, United Football League. He helped the team clinch the 2011 United Football Cup. [3] He would also suit up for the team in their brief stint in the Philippines Football League for the 2019 season. [4]

By 2023, he is still part of Air Force which entered the 2023 Copa Paulino Alcantara [5] . In the club returns to the 2024 Philippines Football League, he would go on to captain the club.

International career

Barsales played for the Philippines national team from 1992 to 2011. [2] At the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Barsales made the first goal for the Philippines at a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Syria held in May 2001. [6] [7] He would be part of the Philippines roster for the 1998, [8] 2000 [9] and 2010 AFF Championships. [10]

He retired from the national team in 2011 following the conclusion of the United Football League. [11]

Personal life

Barsales is married to Gemma Araneta with whom he has four children. Bersales in an Illongo which hails from Barotac Nuevo. In 2023, he was residing with his family in Angeles City. [2] Other relatives involved in football are Ian Araneta and Jovin Bedic, his stepbrother and nephew respectively. [12]

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