Castañeda and McDaniel sisters fulfill dream as they head to the FIFA Women's World Cup

Playing football since childhood, it was a dream for these two pairs of sisters, Sara and Anicka Castañeda and Chandler and Olivia McDaniel, to make their way to football's biggest stage.

On January 31, their dream became a reality as the Philippine national women's football team qualified for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup -- a historic feat for any national football team.

"It kinda feels surreal. I don't know if it has hit us like exactly how big the thing that we've done is," Chandler said in an Unang Hirit interview on Tuesday. "It's been a dream of mine and Olivia's, or as long as we've started playing soccer, so being able to achieve it with the rest of the team is unbelievable."

"I think it's just kind of unreal na we were actually able to do it," Sara echoed Chandler. "Before it was just something na, like my mom would always say na 'When you're older, you're going to get to play in the World Cup.' Now it's actually happening. It's pretty cool."

The four players, together with the rest of the national football team, ended their campaign in the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup after falling to South Korea in the semifinals on Thursday.

—Justin Kenneth Carandang/JMB, GMA News