Coach Alen Stajcic (facility) solutions inquiries throughout the presscon along with (from left) goalkeeper Inna Palacios, group supervisor Jefferson Cheng, protector Hali Long as well as U-20 head train Nahuel Arrarte.– FRANCIS T.J. OCHOA
Coach Alen Stajcic sees the following weeks as well as months leading up to the Philippine ladies’s football group’s historical involvement in the Fifa (International Federation of Association Football) Women’s World Cup as both amazing as well as tough, especially with the duty of having to manage one large predicament.
“We now have a pool of about 30 to 35 players,” Stajcic claimed on Wednesday when the Filipinas held a late mid-day interview at Acacia Hotel in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.
“And the toughest part of this journey is gonna be that 10 to 12 players who have been with the squad, and have been a part of the regular squad are not gonna be selected for the World Cup.”
But it appears that Stajcic has an excellent trouble in hand, with the variety of ability he has as well as large events in line prior to heading to New Zealand for the worldwide masterpiece of ladies’s football.
“It’s an exciting time, but it’s also gonna be a challenging time for the staff and the players, to get the best out of themselves for the upcoming World Cup, which is by far the biggest occasion in football,” he claimed.
February will certainly be the beginning of the active roadway the Filipinas will certainly take, initially with suits versus 3 nations from the United Kingdom–Wales, Ireland as well as Scotland– in the Pinatar Cup in Spain adhered to by the opening round of the 2024 Paris Olympic qualifiers contrary substandard sides Pakistan, Tajikistan as well as Hong Kong.
Immediate target
And after that the Filipinas will certainly try to make background in the month of May, really hoping to safeguard an initial gold in the Cambodia Southeast Asian Games where they are seen as faves after beating Vietnam as well as Thailand on their method to winning in 2014’s Asean Football Federation Women’s Championship.
During that procedure, Stajcic anticipates obstacles within the team in hopes of obtaining a fracture to see activity in July’s World Cup, which will certainly match the Philippines versus co-host New Zealand, Norway as well as Switzerland.
“We’re getting to that stage where they’re gonna push each other for [those roster] spots,” Stajcic claimed. “To me, that’s the main top quality of the group, to press each various other with each other, to be able to press each various other in training, as well as contend versus each various other. Ultimately, we’ll discover the exact same top qualities as well as I believe that’s an additional huge consider this group, that we have actually obtained to a factor where there’s 30 gamers.
“I think we’ve seen during the course of the year, regardless of who’s playing, you’ll see the same mentality, the same philosophy, the same motivation and drive from the players and, to a certain extent, the level of performance. I’m really proud that we’ve got to that level,” he included.
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