Rebecca Henriquez
@RebeHenriquez
The women’s team won the long-awaited ticket to the first edition of the W 2024 Gold Cup, a historic feat that will remain part of the history of Salvadoran soccer. Eric Acuña’s team beat the Guatemalan team 3-1 thanks to Brenda Cerén’s hat trick, and will be in group C, along with Canada, Costa Rica and Paraguay, in the group stage.
With a win included, thanks to the performance of Brenda Cerén, one of the most important jewels of the women’s team, El Salvador will be in its first edition of the Gold Cup. The scoreboard opened at 19′, with the performance that started from the left wing of the biceleste goalkeeper, with a shot to the center that Danielle Fuentes finished off into the hands of the rival goalkeeper, the team took advantage of the rejection and with a ball inside the area, Cerén made it 1-0 with a great goal .
In an attempted attack by Guatemala, the blue and white defense stole the ball in the midfield, sent a cross to Cerén over the front of Alexia Estrada, goalkeeper of the rival team, and the player diagonally defined the 2 -0.
The triplet came at 69′, with the penalty that Cerén took, to make it 3-0 in favor of the Salvadoran team and in this way they established themselves as the winners of the last preliminary for the group stage.
The match was characterized by the dominance of the blue and white against the biceleste team and despite the goal that was disallowed by Victoria Meza, in the first half, and that the rival team finished with 10 players, the result was overwhelming for El Savior by clear dominion.
At 79 minutes, the Chapina captain, Ana Martínez, scores the honorable goal.
“I had been kicking the frame for around 15 days and no ball was going in. In fact, before the game I took seven shots and no goals scored either. I believe that God gives you things when you least expect it and I will always give the glory and honor to him, because without him I am nothing,” said Cerén, after he finished as MVP of the match after the triplet.
One of the keys to achieving the expected result for the Atlas FC player was the team’s desire to work with the national team and, as she said, the majority of the squad spent two months in El Salvador preparing for the match.
“I see them and I see the love they have for the shirt, so, whenever I see them fight, it motivates me too, they tell me that I motivate them, but in reality they are the ones that motivate me to fight now.” go ahead (…). It was a dream match, I never imagined being able to score three goals, but God knows when things are going to happen to you,” she said. In the next phase the national team will have to face teams like Canada and Costa Rica, which will be complicated for the player because the quality of the rivals but they hope to live the dream of their first Gold Cup in the face of what will come in the coming days.
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