3/24/2023 0 Comments Carpe diem tattoos![]() This year is set to be an extremely busy year for women’s football in India, for all the age-group teams. Sources from Tamil Nadu Football Association further revealed that the combined camps will be up to May 2023.Ī packed year for women’s football in India “The main intention of the camps was to inspire more local communities to get into the sport and definitely, there are a number of Tamil Nadu players who are coming forward (for the Indian team).īut there are some logistical challenges and issues of having long-term combined camps in Chennai, so we will shift to separate camps soon,” he added. ![]() We arranged this surrounding the senior team, which is supposed to play against Nepal in Chennai,” said Shaji.Īlso Read | Tulsidas Balaram, legendary Indian footballer, passes away aged 86 “These (combined camps) are not a long-term plan. However, the plan of having a conjoined pool of players is not a long-term plan, AIFF general secretary Shaji Prabhakaran told Sportstar. But I feel most girls took the experience in a good way.” “It was a tough experience, we lost three games and it is easy to start questioning yourself. I think all the girls in the World Cup squad – when I met them then and now, around January 8, I think they have learnt a lot from that experience,” Dennerby said, talking about the girls.įILE PHOTO: India U-17 Women’s Football Team standing alongside Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik during the national anthem at the Kalinga stadium ahead of a FIFA Under-17 women’s World Cup match on October 11, 2022. “Small things on the international stage punish you directly. The team – mainly comprising the squad that played the U-17 World Cup under Dennerby – is drawn with Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore and will start its qualification campaign against Singapore on March 7. The women’s U-20 team suffered a 1-3 loss to Nepal in the SAFF Championship this month and will look to turn its fortunes, under head coach Maymol Rocky, at the AFC Qualifiers in Vietnam. ‘Small things on the international stage punish you directly’ “So, if we are looking for, say a right-back, in the senior team, we check (after consulting the coaches) if there are worthy players in the lower age-group teams.Īnd who knows, when the U-20 side is done with AFC Qualification in March, maybe some players, who do well there, can arrive in the senior team to be there and fight for Olympic qualification,” he added. But what I understood is that coaching staff are exchanging experiences and opinions,” Dennerby told Sportstar in an exclusive interview.Īlso Read | ISL 2022-23: Which teams can make it to playoffs in the Indian Super League? Qualification scenarios explained The U-17 is just here (very recently), so I did not have much time to go and see them. That dream – to some extent – has been materialised in Chennai as the U-17, U-20 and the senior teams have been brought under the same roof, with coaches of all three sides co-ordinating the progress of Indian football. ![]() “In a big country like India, it could be a good thing to have an AIFF Academy where we can have the best players – from the Under-17, Indian Arrows, Under-19 and the senior teams practising together, seeing each other and having role models,” he had said. ![]() After India’s group-stage exit in the FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in October last year, head coach Thomas Dennerby stressed the need to have all age-group teams together.
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