Jose Ariston Caslib also known as Aris Caslib, is a Filipino football coach who last coached

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club Meralco Manila. He currently serves as the FIFA Technical Consultant for the Southeast Asian region. Caslib has also been the head coach of the Seniors' Football team of

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, the Red Booters. They won the NCAA championship for the 8 straight seasons after sweeping the competition, and in October 2008 became UNIGAMES champions.

Education and youth playing career

Caslib played high school football for Claret School and in inter-collegiate tournaments, notably the National Collegiate Athletic Association, for San Beda College (now San Beda University). While playing for San Beda College, Caslib was active in the student movement as year-level representative in the San Beda College of Arts and Sciences Student Council and political officer of the Makabayang Kabataang Mag-aaral ng San Beda (MaKaMaSa).

Coaching career

Philippines U-23

Caslib led the under-23 national team at the

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as head coach.

Philippines

Caslib managed the Philippines squad which competed at the

2007 ASEAN Football Championship The 2007 AFF Championship (officially designated as the ASEAN Football Championship 2007) was the 6th edition of the AFF Championship, the football championship of Southeast Asia. The group stage was co-hosted by Singapore and Thailand from 12 t ...

. After the team could only manage one draw and two losses, Caslib quit the national team in February 2007. He later serve a non-consecutive term as head coach of the national team, last guiding the team at the

2006 AFC Challenge Cup The 2006 AFC Challenge Cup was held between 1 and 16 April 2006 in Bangladesh. Sixteen teams were split into four groups, the top two in each group qualifying for the quarterfinals, and from then on a straight knockout contest. There was no qual ...

In 2016 Caslib was appointed as chief deputy of the senior national team under head coach

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. He succeeded Sebastian Stache. He also led the Philippine national team in a friendly against Australian club,

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in July 2016 as head coach in lieu of Dooley.

Meralco Manila

In December 2016, Caslib was appointed as head coach of

club, Meralco Manila succeeding former Philippines national team coach Simon McMenemy. On his first and only season with the Sparks, they finished 1st in the regular season and 3rd in the Finals Series of the

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. The club was disestablished in January 2018 with Caslib as its last head coach.

FIFA

In 2020, Caslib was appointed by

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as Technical Consultant for the Southeast Asian region.

Statistics

Managerial

''Updated as of 28 December 2017.''

References

External links

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