Philippines’ Sara Eggesvik gestures throughout the Girls’s World Cup Group A match between New Zealand and the Philippines in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (AP Photograph/John Cowpland)
AUCKLAND, New Zealand—Sara Eggesvik sees the potential of sending the Philippines to the knockout stage of the Fifa Girls’s World Cup as an opportunity to additional the expansion of the attractive sport again house.
“That will imply loads from being like a small soccer nation and this could imply development,” Eggesvik mentioned because the Filipinas put together for his or her crunch Group A match in opposition to Norway on Sunday at Eden Park on this metropolis.
“And I hope we are able to encourage younger ladies and boys to start out enjoying soccer and present that it’s doable to do nice even if you happen to’re from the Philippines,” added the midfielder.
The Filipinas want a surprising win to safe a dream slot within the round-of-16 in opposition to Spain or Japan, the qualifiers from Group C.
Eggesvik and the Philippines may get a draw coupled with a Switzerland win over New Zealand of their sport to be held concurrently in Dunedin to succeed in the following stage of girls’s soccer’s final showcase.
It was Eggesvik who helped arrange the profitable objective of Sarina Bolden 24 minutes into the match held in Wellington.
A large cross by Eggesvik allowed Bolden to move the historic objective, the primary for the nation within the Fifa World Cup.
One other historic feat might be within the offing if they will get the job accomplished in opposition to the embattled Norwegian facet.
“I’m simply feeling so grateful and happy with this group of what we had achieved,” she mentioned. “We maintain making historical past. This group is absolutely one thing particular.”
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