Sarina Bolden (right) came to be the Filipinas’ beaming celebrity after racking up 8 objectives throughout the title run in the AFF Women’s Championship.–Philippine National Women’s Football group
Out of the party of the nation’s initial Asean Football Federation (AFF) Women’s Championship title, a wish for gold has actually arised.
This time, the nationwide ladies’s football group, which has actually logged landmark after landmark under instructor Alen Stajcic, is seeking a historical gold in the 32nd Southeast Asian (SEA) Games that will certainly be held by Cambodia.
“After the Filipinas captured the AFF Women’s Championship trophy last year, they are really looking forward to bagging another medal, if not the gold,” stated legal representative Ed Gastanes, the Philippine Football Federation basic assistant, throughout the Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum on Tuesday.
History
The World Cup- bound Filipinas made background when they won the bronze in the 31st version of the local biennial fulfill in Hanoi, Vietnam.
But they are going for even more.
“The SEA Games women’s finals will be another historic event for us,” included Gastanes.
Two- time champ Vietnam will certainly be amongst the significant adversaries that the Philippines will certainly require to difficulty to win the gold, and also the two-time champ will certainly be going into the event with vengeance on its mind. The Philippines trashed Vietnam, 4-0, in the semifinals of the AFF event.
The Filipinas will fly to the SEA Games prepared; they will certainly have a jam-packed routine of suits right before the local fulfill, which will certainly be kept in May.
“The Filipinas will kick off their season with the four-nation Pinatar Cup in Murcia, Spain,” Gastanes stated.
That event will certainly be held fromFeb 15 to 21 and also the Philippines will certainly deal with globeNo 16 Wales,No 21 Scotland and alsoNo 25 Iceland– matches that will certainly be extremely advantageous for the 53rd-ranked Filipinas.
Olympic qualifiers
The nationwide ladies’s group will certainly likewise contend in the preliminary of the Olympic ladies’s football qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympics from April 3 to 11. The Philippines is bracketed in Group E of the qualifiers together with Pakistan, Tajikistan and also Hong Kong.
All those suits will certainly refine the team for the SEA Games, triggering positive outlook on the group’s opportunities versus the most effective in the area.
“We have a very real chance right now for our national women’s football team in the Cambodia SEA Games given its preparations and our committed and competent coaching staff,” Gastanes stated.
The Filipinas have actually been on a roll given that in 2015. They gotten the Fifa (International Federation of Association Football) Women’s World Cup by getting to the semifinals of the Asian Football Confederation Women’s Asian Cup held by India in January of in 2015. Four months later on, the group won the AFF before a pleased group atRizal Memorial Football Stadium INQ
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