“Banga” ladies’s staff began the season

The ninth season of the ladies’s soccer A League has already began, and the members of the ladies’s staff of Gargždės “Banga” are decided to attain the absolute best leads to the final one. We talked with their head coach Simon ALSIU about what and the way the ladies’s staff lives for the time being, what expectations and potentialities there are.
The probabilities are completely different
– You may have been teaching the ladies’s staff of Gargždės “Banga” for the fourth 12 months. What are your ambitions for this season?
– As quickly as I began working, I keep in mind we took third place. Later, it was not potential to win any extra medals. Our staff is younger, native gamers play. After all, we are going to attempt to carry out in addition to potential, no worse than final 12 months, once we took fifth place.
– Might you establish the staff’s strengths and weaknesses?
– We will be glad that the women have identified one another for a few years and have performed collectively. A few years of hitting that ball collectively – that is the place the power lies. Most, as I discussed, are native. There are those that grew up in Priekulė, Gargždai, and now stay in Klaipėda. And the primary weak point is that it’s troublesome to compete with the groups of larger cities, the place there’s a massive choice of gamers, there are 5-6 legionnaires in a single staff. We can not afford that, however there are two sides to the coin. On the one hand, the staff itself shouldn’t be that robust, however then again, native gamers play on the sphere, they’ve the chance to look on the sphere, and never sit on the bench. We’re elevating our technology.
– Is soccer only a interest for the ladies’s staff you lead?
– She doesn’t obtain a wage, solely alimony. Sure, this can be a interest. The state of affairs is determined by the completely different golf equipment. Of the six competing groups, 4 have legionnaires. This, in fact, prices the lodging of the legionnaires, they need to be remunerated. In spite of everything, they won’t come from the opposite aspect of the world to Lithuania to compete for his or her interest on the soccer discipline. The youngest gamers in our staff are 15 years previous, so, in fact, it’s troublesome to compete with 25-year-olds. American Legionnaire. Ladies’s soccer in Lithuania is quickly turning into fashionable, and accordingly increasingly more investments are being made.
Crucial factor is the need
– Irrespective of how unlucky it’s, you began the season with a defeat towards Vilnius “TransINVEST”. Who stepped in?
– We began with out a number of gamers, we had been additionally unable to benefit from all alternatives, there was a scarcity of communication in protection. Opponents had 4 legionnaires within the beginning line-up and yet another on the bench. And our legionnaire sisters Donata Švarcaitė and Viltė Švarcaitė, as I joke, her legionnaires, as a result of they stay farthest from Gargždai, are from Rietava municipality.
We practice so much on the Gargždas “Minijos” pro-gymnasium stadium, we did not have any holidays in any respect. Final 12 months, the season simply ended and we had been making ready for the ladies’s indoor championship, the place we took second place. Final 12 months we had been first. Now second in Lithuania. Later, we instantly ready for the opening of the outside season. After all, when it is minus or raining outdoors, it makes coaching troublesome.
– You may have been working with the honest intercourse for eight years now. You presently coach not solely the ladies’s staff, but in addition ladies below 13 and ladies below 17. How do you deal with a lot female vitality?
– Different colleagues joke that they’re already white. Nonetheless, from the coach’s viewpoint, the championships are shorter, there are fewer groups. It’s mentioned that ladies often want extra time to grasp sure nuances of soccer. However the whole lot relies upon not on gender, however on need. Our goalkeeper Karolina Curukova began enjoying soccer solely three years in the past, however she was already seen by the soccer coach of the Lithuanian ladies’s nationwide staff. Earlier than that, she performed volleyball intensively, however she discovered the fundamentals of soccer with us and improved very quickly.
– Your career requires particular dedication. Does your spouse Deimantė perceive and assist you?
– It occurs that once I come again, relying on the temper, they perceive whether or not we received the competitors or not. The spouse understands. We’re elevating a three-year-old son Leonard collectively. When there was nonetheless a ready interval, I used to joke that it does not matter who’s born – a boy or a woman – the necessary factor is that it is a soccer participant.
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