Rebecca Henriquez
@RebeHenriquez
After the match against the Guatemalan team, where El Salvador qualified for the W Gold Cup, after beating the biceleste team 3-0, the coach of the Salvadoran women’s team, Erick Acuña, gave his evaluations of the girls’ performance in the match, and spoke about the next goal, which is to reach the quarterfinals of the competition.
“I think (the team) is a fair winner, they dominated the game almost from the beginning, and I am very happy with Brenda, I think she deserves it because she is a player that we all know and what she does when she comes to her team. We all know that she has an injury and yet the game she spent today because she has a very strong mind, so I can only be very proud of her and being able to lead her is a privilege,” said the coach. According to Acuña, the team had the opportunity to concede six more goals in the rival team’s goal, but had no definition, something that made the match more physical, but a point in its favor would be the number of goals that the team was able to produce. because “it means that El Salvador is still a reality,” and he assured that the game could have been resolved in the first 25′.
“We continue working and we continue growing, we are going to have four days to prepare for a beautiful match, with a rival who has been working on women’s football for a long time and who is going to make us grow a lot and is going to expose us to a lot of shortcomings,” added the technician with all humility. The goal for the women’s team, according to Acuña, is the quarterfinals of the first edition of the W Gold Cup, but teams like Costa Rica, Canada and Paraguay could give it a different path than the blue and white, according to the coach.
“Two best third parties pass, therefore, I think there are many possibilities. This is not El Salvador that scored 7 against Costa Rica, we have not played against Paraguay yet, it is another country, In fact I don’t think it is the one that played against Guatemala in the Central American Cup either, ”he said.
More than being motivated, the strategist said he was worried, but he did consider that they could steal points from one of the three teams they will face.
“I’m afraid of no one, I respect everyone, I do respect Costa Rica and Paraguay a lot, for me the three rivals have the same weighting and in fact the pyramidal order of the games means that we can close with a number that is a little more affordable than what we are looking for “If I honestly tell you, all the teams that are classified for a tournament like this must show them due respect,” said Acuña, prior to the group stage that will begin this Friday.
The team met the established goal, which was to reach the group stage of the Gold Cup, but according to Acuña, that is not necessarily why they are going to meet the second stage, they are going to fight for the quarterfinals and everything is “uncertain.”
“The joy for my players who break their souls the way they do, for me that is the best, and having something nice to offer to God and people. I believe that women’s football is becoming more and more important everywhere. Thank you for the congratulations, but we have not achieved anything yet, we are working, we are building and until we are recurring in these types of tournaments I will not feel that I have won anything,” she emphasized.
A sports journalist from Guatemala asked Acuña if he was surprised by the “low” performance shown by the biceleste team, and also if he visualized the match with the result they achieved. He asked that the coach answered yes, if he saw himself in the next phase.
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