The Philippine Women’s National Football Team is in Vietnam for the 2025 ASEAN Girls’s Championship (MSIG Serenity Cup) and its goal is to defend the title it received in 2022.
Nevertheless, for head coach Mark Torcaso, they’re nonetheless keeping track of the larger image which is one other stint within the AFC Girls’s Asian Cup and a doable slot within the FIFA Girls’s World Cup.
The Philippines is grouped with Myanmar, Australia U23, and Timor Leste within the group stage of the regional tourney.
“I am not solely nervous concerning the opponents that we have in our group,” Torcaso mentioned.
“I feel if we give attention to ourselves, I feel we are able to go to a different World Cup.”
“We’ll actually give attention to what we have to do over the following six to eight months and guarantee that we’re 100% prepared and it begins with this AFF event,” he added.
The lineup from the 2022 version of the event, nevertheless, is sort of totally different from this 12 months’s roster.
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Sarina Bolden had an ACL harm final April, whereas the likes of Katrina Guillou, Sara Eggesvik, and Meryll Serrano are with their respective mom golf equipment because the ASEAN event falls on a non-FIFA window.
Nonetheless, Torcaso believes it is a good alternative for a number of the younger gamers to get expertise and step up for the group.
“We even have to think about that there are lots of younger gamers right here. We need to make it possible to play senior worldwide soccer and see in the event that they’re prepared for the Asian Cup as a result of that is clearly what we need to goal for and that is the place we need to go to a different World Cup,” he mentioned.
Amongst those that moved up from the youth group are Isabella Alamo, Lyka Cuenco, Jaycee DeFazio, Azumi Oka, Aaliyah Schinaman, Tea Pidding, and Adelaide Wyrzynski.
Veterans corresponding to Hali Lengthy, Inna Palacios, and the Mcdaniel sisters Chandler and Olivia are additionally returning for an additional tour of responsibility.
Previous to the opening match in opposition to Timor Leste on Thursday, Torcaso mentioned he plans to have 5 to 6 coaching classes with the hopes of integrating the brand new gamers within the system,
“We have three new faces on this camp, after which we have got two or three U-17 gamers which might be coming in for the primary time too. So we will use as a lot of the coaching classes to combine these new gamers, get them conversant in one another and present what our tradition is within the group and what our combating spirit is as a rustic,” mentioned Torcaso.
After Timor Leste, the Filipinas will face Australia U23 on Sunday and Myanmar on August 13, Wednesday.
—JMB, GMA Built-in Information
