The Filipinas proceed their buildup for the Fifa Girls’s World Cup. —CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Hali Lengthy sees no purpose for the Philippine girls’s soccer group to take a step again now that it’s in New Zealand for remaining preparations earlier than the Fifa (Worldwide Affiliation Soccer Federation) Girls’s World Cup marketing campaign kicks off subsequent week.
“We labored actually exhausting to get to this second and I imply the exhausting work shouldn’t be gonna cease. We’ve plenty of work to do, nonetheless,” Lengthy stated after the Filipinas held their first coaching session on Wednesday in Auckland, the place the group arrange its base camp.
Slick circumstances welcomed the group at Olympic Park after spending the primary two days acclimatizing to the sunny-yet-cold climate, which is predicted to be the identical by the point the group’s World Cup stint will get underway towards Switzerland on July 21 in Dunedin, New Zealand.
However earlier than that, the Filipinas will give themselves an opportunity to have a really feel of what they’ll face with a coaching match towards Sweden, thought of as one of many prime groups in Fifa’s centerpiece match.
Sweden will function gamers who’re hooked up to among the prime girls’s golf equipment in Europe, specifically Barcelona, Arsenal, Chelsea and Wolfsburg.
Lengthy believes that the match, which probably gained’t be two 45-minute halves, will give the Filipinas the chance to know if they’ve made sufficient progress through the lengthy lead-up.
Final three days
“We’re all excited for [our upcoming friendly] simply to see the place we’re at,” Lengthy continued in a video posted by the group’s official Fb web page.
The Filipinas face Sweden on Monday in Wellington earlier than spending the final three days finalizing its preparations for the opener.
“It’s about to be recreation time,” stated Lengthy. “So we actually have to recollect all of the little particulars we’ve been taught alongside this 18-month journey we’ve had collectively.
“So it’s all in regards to the little particulars now. We’ve finished all of our fine-tuning, however it’s lastly time to show and present what we’re made [of],” added the Filipinas cocaptain.
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