Philippine ladies’s soccer workforce coach Alen Stajcic. AFC PHOTO
Coach Alen Stajcic lauded the constructive angle the Philippine ladies’s soccer workforce has proven as they enter the ultimate week of preparation earlier than plunging into motion within the Fifa Girls’s World Cup.
“[The team spirit has] been improbable [and I] can’t fault any one of many gamers,” Stajcic mentioned after the Filipinas’ second coaching session in Auckland, New Zealand. “It’s such a lovely group to work with and practice with.”
The Filipinas are eight days faraway from dealing with off with Switzerland to open their Group A marketing campaign Down Beneath, and the build-up is predicted to be extra intense as they hope to place up an excellent displaying within the nation’s first World Cup look.
“I feel they’re all actually excited, however to be sincere, they’re probably not displaying it in the intervening time,” mentioned the Filipinas mentor.
“They’re simply displaying that they’re prepared to work laborious and preserve bettering day-to-day and the tradition across the workforce is improbable and the assumption across the workforce simply grows on a regular basis and I hope we will carry that into the primary recreation.
“I hope that they’ll actually present that we could be a power and might be aggressive on the earth stage. I’ve nothing however reward for your complete group,” Stajcic added.
A closed-door coaching match in opposition to Sweden scheduled Monday in Wellington will give the workforce an early thought of how they’ll face high-level opponents within the group stage.
“I’m actually trying ahead to the week forward,” mentioned Stajcic. “We’re all the time discovering methods to enhance on the ball and off the ball, ways, set items, all the time specializing in our mentality.
“We’re all the time effective tuning and all the time taking a look at these particulars in bettering as a person or as a complete group. I feel we’re all simply actually excited to get to the beginning line.”
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