New Delhi [India], July 31 (ANI): Indian girls’s soccer workforce skipper Sweety Devi stated that taking part in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup for the primary time ever can be a ‘robust problem’ for the workforce, however they really feel prepared for them, with quite a few pleasant matches lined up forward of the competitors happening from March subsequent yr.
With a 2-1 win over Thailand on the Chiang Mai Stadium on July 5, the Indian girls’s soccer workforce made historical past, securing their first-ever qualification to the continental competitors.
The Indian girls’s soccer workforce will face a troublesome problem within the upcoming AFC Women’s Asian Cup in Australia as they’ve been put in Group C with Japan, Vietnam, and Chinese Taipei, and captain Sweety Devi emphasised the necessity to do properly in friendlies in an effort to put together properly for the event.
The Blue Tigresses will start their Women’s Asian Cup in Group C with a match in opposition to Vietnam on March 4, 2026. They will then face Japan on March 7 and Chinese Taipei on March 10.
‘The event can be a troublesome problem for us, however we’re prepared for it. We will play many friendlies until March subsequent yr, and can purpose to do properly in these matches. It is essential to maintain the momentum going,’ Sweety stated in the course of the launch of Zinc Football Girls Academy in Zawar close to Udaipur.
Speaking on the chance to guide India, Sweety stated that she feels fortunate for that.
‘I’ll proceed to do properly for India and work in direction of our final purpose, which is to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. I’m positive that we are able to do it and must hold working laborious to realize this milestone,’ she concluded.
The All India Football Federation (AIFF) will lend technical and strategic help to the academy, with the purpose of creating girls’s soccer.
Zinc Football is a one-of-its-kind grassroots soccer growth initiative, on the core of which is a full-fledged residential ladies’ soccer academy with world-class services and the nation’s first-ever ‘technology-hinged soccer coaching’ – the distinctive F-Cube expertise.
The initiative goals to contribute to the event of Indian soccer whereas leveraging on the ability of the world’s most beloved sport to impression lives and guarantee social upliftment of girls, youngsters and folks.
Hindustan Zinc’s academy may have an preliminary batch of 20 ladies from completely different states reminiscent of Rajasthan, Gujarat, West Bengal, Haryana and Jharkhand. (ANI)