Torcaso begins Filipinas stint with eye on untapped local talent
A bunch of teenage women from Makati Soccer Membership have a good time after a victory in a global event. There may be plenty of expertise in age-group soccer these days and new Filipinas coach Mark Torcaso hopes to have the ability to develop them for the nationwide pool. —CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
New Philippine ladies’s soccer group coach Mark Torcaso slipped into Manila this week with the intention of getting ready the subsequent chapter of the Filipinas’ journey and hopefully discover some untapped expertise.
“There’s a lot expertise right here, there’s some unbelievable expertise and hopefully we get to seek out a number of extra younger gamers for the event and a few native expertise that may be obtainable for the Asian Video games,” Torcaso stated in a video posted on the group’s social media account.
‘Good group gamers’
“It’s clear that there’s plenty of technical gamers out right here so let’s attempt to discover a number of extra and let’s attempt to develop that into being good group gamers and creating an surroundings the place they’re all collectively as one they usually’re working collectively for one another,” he added.
Torcaso is ready to spend the subsequent few days with the FIlipinas and the U-17s at Rizal Memorial Stadium to start his reign as successor to educate Alen Stajcic, who left after the historic Fifa Ladies’s World Cup marketing campaign.
The Aussie mentor isn’t solely attempting to acquaint himself with the group but additionally with the Filipino surroundings.
He was at Mall of Asia Area on Monday to look at the Fiba World Cup recreation between the USA and Greece.
Torcaso can be tasked to deal with the Filipinas within the Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China, in addition to the second spherical of the Olympic Qualifying Event.
Certainly one of his assistants, Sinisa Cohadzic, will name the pictures for the squad that may play within the second spherical of the AFC U-17 Ladies’s Asian Cup Qualifiers in mid-September. INQ
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