July 13 () –
The Spanish women’s team will play this Friday (06:30 Spanish time) a training match against Vietnam, as the last test for the coach, Jorge Vilda, in order to complete the preparation for the expected debut next Friday at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand .
Jorge Vilda’s pupils are getting ready for the World Cup, a tournament that starts next Thursday, although the Spanish will debut on Friday, July 21. And to finish off and put an end to possible doubts in drawing up the first eleven of the tournament, Spain will play a match this morning, which will not be counted in the internationals of the players, against Vietnam during training.
The Spanish women’s soccer team arrived in Auckland last Friday to begin the final stretch of its preparation, after more than 30 hours and more than 17,000 kilometers of travel. A journey to the Antipodes that they completed after beating Denmark (0-2) with goals from Ona Batlle and Salma Paralluelo.
The result made it possible to prolong the state of optimism that reigns in a team that also suffered from goal intoxication in the victory (7-0) over Panama. Although the best news for the national team is the return of Alexia Putellas, a fundamental pillar and axis of the Vilda system, and who missed the Euro Cup last summer.
But the midfielder would be in cotton, without completing the sessions with her teammates since the team arrived in Auckland. The footballer tore her anterior cruciate ligament on July 5, 2022, and since then she has hardly had minutes with FC Barcelona, appearing in six games in the final stretch of the season.
The presence of Putellas in the training match against Vietnam would be in doubt, taking into account that Vilda’s will debut in the World Cup on July 21 against Costa Rica. The Spanish team will also face Zambia and Japan in the group stage.
Thus, the last test of the Spanish team will allow efforts and load to be distributed to calibrate in the best possible way the long-awaited World Cup debut. Present in some pools, although with the ’15’ fire still unextinguished, Spain arrives at the tournament with the aim of improving the round of 16 reached in France 2019, ready to get among the best in the world.
