Las Diablas’ rivals: No. 1 and two countries they have already defeated

The coach of the Chilean women’s team, Cristobal Rodríguez, spoke with AM850.com about how he is going to face the Netherlands, the best in the ranking, and Australia and Japan, two nations that it surpassed in the recent World Cup.

It seems that Chile’s destiny in the World Cup is close to the Dutch. Once again, and as in 2022, the first World Cup in which they participated, they will have to cross paths with the Netherlands on their land. On that occasion it was 3 to 1 for the locals. Afterwards, they did not have another confrontation.

Cristobal Rodríguez, coach of Las Diablas, spoke about how he is going to prepare for the match against the best: “Obviously it is very difficult. We know that the Netherlands is at a high level and that they will want to propose from the first minute. We also know that Chile has improved its game a lot and that the result is important for a classification. “We will have to watch the videos, identify their strengths and weaknesses and take advantage of every possibility we have to play a balanced match.”explained the technician.

Regarding the other rivals whom he already faced in the World Cup (they beat Japan in the semifinals by shoot-outs by 2 to 0 and in the zone they beat Australia by 2 to 1 and then in the final by 1 to 0), he said: “It is important to have seen them because it gives us relevant information about game systems, about important players from both squads, as well as they will use ours. It is an emotional boost because it opens your head and excites you. knowing that they are teams that can be beaten and thus possibly get into the top eight…. But we also have to be very clear about our reality and put our feet on the ground, because the games have to be played and it will always be better to play them with the humility and conviction necessary to go out and win each game, from work and confidence… without being trusting. Knowing that we have nothing left over.”

The team leader also spoke about his objective in this second World Cup in which he will participate: “We want to be a competitive team, go game by game, with humility and conviction. Before the fixture comes out, We debut with the Netherlands on the 15th at 4:00 p.m. (local time – 11:00 a.m. in Chile and Argentina). That will be our only World Cup objective from todayAfter that game we will see how we continue towards the second game. But before those objectives are the Nations Cup and our energy will be focused on that championship that opens the doors to a Pro League.“Rodríguez closed.