Oct. 22 () –
The Spanish women’s soccer coach, Jorge Vilda, has assured that Japan is a priori “the rival to beat” in Group C of the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, where they will also face Costa Rica and Zambia, and has highlighted that All the combinations that the draw has brought them are “competitive”.
“For the first time we are group leaders in a World Cup or European draw and this has a lot to do with what happened on the last FIFA date,” he said in statements provided by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) after the raffle held this Saturday. “We are looking forward to the debut against Costa Rica,” he added.
The coach from Madrid did not hide that the Japanese are the main danger in Group C. “A priori, the rival to beat is Japan; associative football, we already know them, we have played against them and we are going to play against them again in November and we It will serve as evidence,” he stressed.
About Costa Rica, Vilda stressed that it is “a competitive team.” “They played against them in 2015 at the World Cup in Canada, they couldn’t win,” she said, before talking about the last rival. “Zambia has been a semi-finalist in the Africa Cup; they have very fast players, we know them from the Spanish league, they have extraordinary offensive potential. Perhaps the order is a bit their ‘must’, but they have a competitive team,” she concluded.
