Philippines’ goalkeeper Olivia McDaniel reacts following the Girls’s World Cup Group A soccer match between New Zealand and the Philippines in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (AP Photograph/John Cowpland)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—Olivia McDaniel is hoping that the Philippines can proceed its string of historic achievements even after producing the nation’s first-ever win within the Fifa Girls’s World Cup.
The Filipinas goalkeeper supported Sarina Bolden’s first-half objective by making key stops within the latter moments that sealed a historic end result earlier than 32,000 followers at this metropolis’s Wellington Regional Stadium.
“Hopefully this isn’t the final accolade that we are able to obtain,” mentioned McDaniel within the post-match press convention.
McDaniel has been among the many principals within the Filipinas’ rise to the worldwide stage, beginning together with her two saves within the penalty shootout of the World Cup-clinching quarterfinal win over Chinese language-Taipei within the 2022 Girls’s Asian Cup.
However the magnitude of profitable one on the worldwide stage left little question already that her January 2022 heroics are actually secondary.
“I feel this implies rather more,” mentioned the 25-year-old shotstopper, who was later named Participant of the Match.
McDaniel obtained a trophy for the excellence, one other first for the Philippines, to focus on a powerful defensive exhibiting towards New Zealand’s Soccer Ferns.
“Being debutants on this World Cup, it could actually’t simply be for your self, it’s for everyone,” McDaniel mentioned. “Each single individual fought for this [win]. It’s not only a single individual, it’s all people.”
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