Rookies get probability for World Cup-dreaming Filipinas in Vietnam

The Philippine women’s football team will put emphasis on giving its young talents the possibility to shine, especially with some key players for the defense out of the Asean Women’s Championship that starts this week in Vietnam.

Coach Mark Torcaso listed seven debutants, including three from the youth squad, for the competition the Filipinas are also going to make use of as preparation for next yr’s AFC Women’s Asian Cup.

The Asian Cup is a qualifier for the 2027 Fifa Women’s World Cup in Brazil.

“This coming tournament is a probability for us to see quite a lot of our young youth players play,” said Torcaso going into the regional competition commercially referred to as the Serenity Cup.

Youth members Isabella Alamo, Tea Pidding and Lyka Cuenco plus Jaycee DeFazio, Azumi Oka, Aaliyah Schinaman and Adelaide Wyrzynski were among the many 23 players chosen to suit up for the tournament that may see the Filipinas in Group B with the Australia U-23 team, Myanmar and Timor-Leste.

The Filipinas might be without Sarina Bolden, Sara Eggesvik and Meryll Serrano, leaving Hali Long, Olivia McDaniel, Quinley Quezada, Bella Pasion, Chandler McDaniel and Jane DeFazio as amongst the important thing players.

Bolden, the most important star of the primary Philippine team that saw World Cup motion, remains to be recovering from an ACL injury while Eggesvik and Serrano weren’t released by their clubs on account of the tournament not scheduled during Fifa windows.

“Obviously, with a closed Fifa window, we’ll give quite a lot of opportunity to our young players and see where they’re at in the extent that they’re going to be hopefully ready for opportunities that come their way for the Asian Cup,” said Torcaso.

The highest two teams will advance to the semifinals together with their counterparts from Group A, composed of host Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia. INQ