translated from Spanish: José Letelier: “We will try to achieve something important for women’s football”

The coach of the Chilean women’s team, José Letelier, referred on Tuesday to next month’s major challenge against Cameroon for a ticket to the Tokio.La ‘Red’ Olympics will contest the Olympic repechage with the ‘Indomitable Lionesses’ at a double crossing, on April 10 and 13, to be played at the Arslan Zeki Demirci Stadium in Antalya.Consulted for playing the quota for the appointment of the five rings on Turkish soil , the strata of the combine declared to Radio Cooperative that “understanding the circumstances and one must accept. We have neutral ground that is the same as a tournament we played last year.” We must go with optimism, in a positive way, there are conditions that can help us. I think we have to adapt and deal with the situations as they come, it’s not going to be an excuse and we have to do our best and try to get something important for women’s football,” she added. In addition, Letelier noted that due to the coronavirus pandemic “we didn’t have matches on FIFA date, and that wasn’t good, but you could play the national tournament and that’s positive, just as many of our footballers played the Copa Libertadores.” The other countries are in a position to sympathy for ours. These situations are difficult for sport and it is a reality that Cameroon does not escape either,” he complemented. On the other hand, the coach who goes for the five years at the helm of the team referred to the development of women’s football. “About 10 years ago there was little knowledge of women’s football, but the context has changed. He made the America’s Cup and that gave him another visibility. There are things he’s getting better at,” he said.” In the national team, for a couple of years we have been forced to approach other realities when playing tournaments like the World Cup. We don’t have an overly important biotype, but we do have very good-technical players and based on that we’ve tried to be a little more in competitive orbit,” he added. Finally, with regard to the decision of His Helen Galaz (Santiago Morning) to detract from the repechage, Letelier stated that “personal decisions must be respected. I called her to find out the circumstances of her decision, which I can’t comment on. It’s a selection and all the decisions that are made are technical, but the players’ are personal.”

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