June 5th arrived, the day on which the Colombia selection met his rivals in the group stage of the historic first Women’s World Cup on coffee soil. Those directed by Carlos Paniagua They defined their fate in the Events Center, Hall 74 of the city of Bogotá.
The event was surrounded by emotions with the prominence of Natalia Gaitán as one of those in charge of the bolilleros and the draw. She was the former captain of the Colombian National Team who defined the rivals of the national team. As hostess, she had the right to be head of the Group A.
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Colombia will debut with Australia on August 31 at 6 pm at the Nemesio Camacho El Campín Stadium. But, in addition to facing the oceanic teams that compete in the Asian classifications, they will face each other Cameroon and Mexico. Precisely, they know the Mexican women perfectly, especially because they met at the Sud Ladies Cup in France.
In this match, during the regulation 90 minutes, they tied the score at one goal. Later, they decided the result from the kicks from the penalty spot. Colombia triumphed in that way and was left with two points to start that competition in a great way. Colombians and Mexicans have had a strong rivalry in women’s football.
ANDREA RODEBAUGH ANALYZED THE CRASH AGAINST COLOMBIA
After the draw, there was space to interview technical staff of the respective teams. Andrea Rodebaugh She was the delegate of Mexico in her role as director of the national teams. Andrea analyzed the match against Colombia in the following way, “It is very nice to be able to play against the host because it will be a full stadiumthere will be a lot of support for Colombia, but Mexico always stomps when it comes to supporting its women’s team. We have a long-standing rivalry against Colombia. It will surely be a very competitive match”.
More about the Colombian National Team, he stated that it will be, “a very close game, without a doubt we know the players, their career and as I have already mentioned, we have several antecedents in various categories, it is a rival that will make us have a close confrontation”.
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Regarding the evolution of the Mexican team and its virtues in the competition, he explained, “this category is very interesting because it has been in process for some time, it is a team that several went on to Under-15, Under-17, they played in the World Cup in India , the World Cup, champions of the U-20 categories, is a solid and integrated team We are left with players like Natalia Colín, Alice Soto, Tatiana Flores who is in Tigres. It is a selection with many virtues”.
The objective of Mexico, “We want to win, we are confident that we have a solid team, improve the past of what has been done in this category, but we aspire to reach the final phases”. The last precedent was in the Sud Ladies Cup, “That match, like other matches we have had against Colombia, helps us analyze and see how the confrontation here will be.. I think we have several similarities in their process, development and so on. That game was very close, and I am sure that the game here will be like that too.”
