Coach wants Portugal ″without fear″ from the strongest teams
The Portuguese women’s football coach wants a “competitive” and “fearless” team against Norway and Sweden, two top-ranked teams that they will face this week in the Algarve Cup. “More than the evaluation, in this Algarve Cup, we want to be organized again, without fear and a team chosen to train to play”, said Francisco Neto before the fair in the Valley. do Garrão, on the eve of his debut in the Algarve tournament.
The competition serves as a test of the double confrontation, with Germany and Bulgaria, within two months, counting for the qualifying phase for the 2023 World Cup. The big thing “is being able to be competitive and competent against these teams, being close and growing in half of them, in April, the team will be ready”, according to the national coach.
“It’s possible [chegar à final da Algarve Cup], we believe. There are already very good years in the Algarve Cup and other less good years in terms of results. If, after Sunday, we are going to allow us to reach the end, we will gladly go and that is what we will fight for”, confessed Francisco Neto.
Portugal’s debut in the tournament will be against Norway, winner of the competition on five occasions, on Wednesday, at Estádio Municipal de Lagos, at 18:30. In the duel of clashes between the two sets, the Portuguese have seven defeats and only one victory, curiously in the last game played between them, in the 2018 Algarve Cup.
It is possible to go in the past without two, as they are already able to equip both keys, which are already large configuration equipment, when the player’s configurations are different. that is possible organizer in Portuguese presenter.
Forward Suzane Pires, 29, who plays for Ferroviária, also stressed that the Algarve Cup “is a very important tournament for the games that come in April”, on the way to the 2023 World Cup.
“These are two very important games, against top European teams, which will prepare us for two matches. We will try to play excellent games to be as prepared as possible”, anticipated the player, who has 25 caps.
In the Algarve Cup2022, Denmark participates in five teams (Portugal, Sweden, and Italy), each of which will play two matches in the three phase, with the two with the best evaluation going to the final, while others will define the remaining final classification in games. of 45 minutes.
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