Rebecca Henriquez
@RebeHenriquez
The El Salvador women’s team left this Tuesday morning for the United States to play a match against Guatemala in search of a ticket to the first edition of the W Gold Cup, which will be played this Saturday, February 17 at 9:00 pm Both the teams and the blue and white coach, Erick Acuña, assured that they will fight to make history in women’s soccer.
“It will be a very fast game, where two very good teams are going to go for the result, and the girls are very aware of that, and that is why we are working. Tomorrow we went out there (yesterday) to look for that result because it is the only thing that does not work,” indicated the strategist of the women’s team.
According to the coach, there is not much difference in the Guatemalan team that the Selecta faced in the Central American Games, and he indicated that each match is different because soccer is a very acyclical sport, and the match will be won by the team that commits the least. mistakes, and who takes advantage of the rival’s virtues.
For Acuña, women’s soccer has advanced, and it is already a reality in El Salvador, but we must continue supporting and working to make it grow and be regular in important competitions, because currently they are already “among the 10 best in CONCACAF.” , and that means a lot.
The selected Samaria Gomez assured that they are coming from less to more, waiting to see how her body evolves after the injury she suffered.
Regarding the Guatemalan team, he said that they expect a different team than the one they faced in the Central American Games.
If they qualify for the Gold Cup, the blue and white team would face Canada and Costa Rica. Regarding this, Gómez mentioned: “we know that they are good rivals, but we have always talked about not giving names to countries and facing them in the best way, that that is why we come to work at the concentration to stand up.”
The team had a perfect pace in the qualifiers towards the Gold Cup, with the brilliant debut as a visitor against Nicaragua by defeating them 0 to 3. Then they beat Martinique at home 9 to 1, beat Honduras by the minimum as visitors and They generated a 5-0 at home against H. And in the last two games they beat the islanders 0-2 and the Nicaraguans 4-1.
“We know that it is going to be a very complicated game, very beautiful, we are fighting for the Gold Cup pass, something historic for El Salvador and we are very focused on ourselves, on going to play our role, to put up a fight, to fight,” he commented. defense Priscila Ortiz.
The player said that it will be a little complicated due to the weather for some who are not used to playing in low temperatures, but who have the mentality that they must give 100% regardless of the weather.
Likewise, he said that they are very focused, since they are playing a historic ticket for the country, something that could be the perfect harvest for Salvadoran soccer after the year full of success it had in 2023 in the playoffs.
La Selecta announced the official roster in the afternoon of this Tuesday, a list that does not present major changes and remains with the same basis that the Salvadoran team had in the qualifying rounds.
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