The East Asians missed out on their first AFC Asian Cup Finals appearance since 1968 – their second of two - by a solitary point as they fell short of qualifying at the hands of Bahrain and Turkmenistan.
But for a team from a nation where baseball dominates the sporting scene, those performances have given Chinese Taipei a greater sense of belief......
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