Women’s World Cup 2023: “Morocco can compete with the best selections” – Football – Sport News Africa

Sports activities Information Africa : Morocco is collaborating for the primary time in its historical past within the Ladies’s World Cup with choice A. What emotions do you could have as a former coach in Moroccan ladies’s soccer?

Ilyass Kaadoud: I’m extraordinarily proud and comfortable of this historic participation. This is a crucial step for the event of ladies’s soccer within the nation. This reveals the numerous progress made by ladies’s soccer in Morocco lately; It additionally testifies to the dedication and laborious work of the gamers, coaches, managers and all those that have contributed to creating and selling the self-discipline.

This participation will permit Moroccan gamers to compete in opposition to among the finest groups on the earth, acquire helpful expertise and proudly characterize their nation on the worldwide stage. It’s going to additionally assist encourage and inspire many younger Moroccan women to become involved in soccer and pursue their goals. I’m satisfied that this participation will solely enhance curiosity in ladies’s soccer in Morocco and encourage extra funding, assets and assist to additional develop this self-discipline. I want the gamers each success and sit up for watching their performances.

Sports activities Information Africa : What are the strengths of this Moroccan choice?

Ilyass Kaadoud: This workforce is distinguished by a number of belongings. Initially, his exemplary mind-set is one in all his most hanging strengths. The gamers reveal nice cohesion, a optimistic angle and an unwavering need to succeed collectively. That is mirrored of their fixed motivation, their profitable mentality and their potential to stay collectively in tough occasions. Then, they show an attention-grabbing particular person technical stage. Many feminine gamers are additionally versatile, permitting them to be artistic and excel of their sport.

Collectively, the extent can be spectacular. There’s an understanding of enjoying patterns, synchronized actions, which permits them to take advantage of their collective potential to the fullest. That is because of the stability of the working group. The gamers have been enjoying collectively for a while, which has created concord and robust bonds. These combined forces make it a formidable workforce, able to competing with one of the best groups on the earth.

Sports activities Information Africa : The coach created a number of surprises by revealing the record of 23 gamers, together with two absences (Imane Saoud and Samya Hassani). Do you assume that doing with out two gamers accustomed to the choice in favor of the brand new ones is an effective technique?

Ilyass Kaadoud: The explanations behind this resolution might be a number of and infrequently depend upon the workforce’s objectives and the coach’s imaginative and prescient for the competitors. The coach’s selections could also be based mostly on the gamers’ latest efficiency in practices or pleasant matches. If the brand new gamers have proven vital progress and spectacular bodily health, they will earn their place within the squad. The selection can be defined by tactical adaptation. New gamers could have particular qualities or expertise that higher match the tactical technique the coach needs to implement. By adjusting the squad, the coach can higher exploit the strengths of the workforce and obtain outcomes extra suited to his model of play. There’s additionally workforce administration. The coach can consider facets similar to group dynamics, cohesion and chemistry between the gamers. The composition of the workforce is a fancy resolution that goes past the abilities of particular person gamers.

It’s as much as the coach to indicate the gamers involved that their absence doesn’t imply the top of their worldwide profession. It’s the efficiency of the workforce on the bottom that may actually choose the effectiveness of this technique.

Sports activities Information Africa: Morocco could have a tough match in opposition to Germany, double world champion, what would be the recipes to attempt to thwart the Germans?

Ilyass Kaadoud: Countering a workforce as highly effective as Germany, two-time world champions, generally is a tall order for Morocco. Nonetheless, there are a number of tactical recipes which may assist Atlas lionesses to strategy this tough match. Focus and mentality will likely be vital. Above all, it is going to be essential to handle the emotional cost, to have focus and willpower. The Moroccan gamers should strategy the match with their common combating mentality and the knowledge that they will compete with their opponent.

Defensively, it’s going to take excellent group with intense urgent. We should not neglect both the defensive withdrawal and the occupation of areas. All this should be adopted by good communication. Afterwards, to disrupt Germany’s sport, Morocco should additionally train efficient and fixed strain. By harassing German gamers once they attempt to rebuild the sport, Morocco can drive them to make errors and lose vital balls; particularly the full-backs. As quickly as there’s a counter-attack ball, you’ll have to be fast to make the most of the areas left by the opposing workforce.

“Thwarting a workforce as highly effective as Germany, two-time world champions, generally is a tall order for Morocco.”

Sports activities Information Africa : What are the possibilities within the group’s different two matches in opposition to South Korea and Colombia?

Ilyass Kaadoud: Analyzing the traits of Morocco’s opposing groups, I’d say that there’s a distinction. South Korea is famend for its tactical self-discipline and group on the pitch. The gamers are typically properly ready and have sturdy workforce cohesion. Morocco will must be affected person and artistic to get round their well-organized defence. Nonetheless, if the Atlas lionesses handle to take advantage of the moments when South Korea is much less properly positioned, particularly by enjoying shortly on the counter-attack, they will create scoring alternatives. Morocco’s probabilities will depend upon their potential to remain centered all through the sport and capitalize on the opponent’s weaknesses.

About Colombia, I retain its aggressiveness. It is a combating workforce. So Morocco must play good and keep away from falling into the lure of bodily duels. They’ll use their technical play to get across the Colombian protection and search for areas to shoot. We must watch out with set items, an train wherein Colombia might be harmful. Morocco’s probabilities in opposition to Colombia will depend upon their potential to maintain their cool and never be intimidated by their aggressive model of play.

Sports activities Information Africa : Do you hope for a qualification within the second spherical after the extent displayed throughout the preparations?

Ilyass Kaadoud: The extent displayed throughout the preparations could also be a mandatory however not adequate indicator, because it doesn’t mechanically assure qualification within the second spherical. Official competitors matches differ from pleasant matches, because the stakes are larger and the adversity is extra intense. Qualification to the second spherical will depend upon the outcomes of the group matches and whether or not Morocco manages to carry out properly and obtain optimistic outcomes in opposition to sturdy groups like Germany, South Korea and Colombia. It is very important remember that soccer is an unpredictable sport and that something can occur in a event and that soccer has modified its mentality and we’ve got moved from the period of participation for participation to a brand new period of aiming for competitors. As a result of we’ve got the important means: ardour, willpower and the flexibility to grab alternatives to attain a great efficiency and thus have a great probability of qualifying.
All stakeholders in Moroccan soccer should stay optimistic and assist our workforce all through the event.

Sports activities Information Africa : There have been two matches in opposition to the European alternatives with out a objective scored or a objective conceded, we will see that the protection was stable, however what ought to Morocco enhance in assault?

Ilyass Kaadoud: If Morocco managed to keep up a stable protection by not conceding a objective in matches in opposition to European groups, it’s a good signal of the standard of their defensive group and their cohesion as a workforce. Nonetheless, if the gamers have not been in a position to rating objectives, there are definitely facets they might enhance in assault to be more practical. Morocco should be more practical within the offensive phases, totally exploiting counter-attacks and moments when the opponent is much less properly positioned. It’s going to even be mandatory to enhance the ending in entrance of the objective. The gamers should be extra exact of their photographs and calmer when they’re in a state of affairs to attain. The gamers should be capable to mix shortly and discover options to destabilize the opposing defence. They have to additionally differ in attacking play, having completely different approaches in an effort to be unpredictable to opponents.

One other side should even be properly exploited: the sport on the wings to hold out crosses withdrawn and combos on the perimeters which might be very harmful.

“South Africa, Morocco, Nigeria and Zambia are all able to performing properly and creating surprises.”

Sports activities Information Africa : Total, what do you anticipate from the African alternatives on this World Cup?

Ilyass Kaadoud: African groups have typically been formidable opponents at World Cups. They’ve recurrently proven their expertise and potential to compete with one of the best groups. Nonetheless, successes on the Worlds can differ from one version to a different relying on a number of components such because the type of the gamers, the cohesion of the workforce, the techniques of play, the opponents encountered and the dynamics of every competitors. South Africa, Morocco, Nigeria and Zambia are all able to performing properly and creating surprises. Every of those groups has proficient and skilled gamers who could make a distinction on the pitch.

South Africa have already participated in a number of Ladies’s World Cups and generally is a sturdy workforce within the qualifying levels. Morocco are a workforce on the rise, and their stage will depend upon their potential to strategy matches with willpower.

As for Nigeria, they’re historically a powerhouse in African ladies’s soccer and have already reached the knockout levels in earlier editions. Lastly, Zambia might be an unpredictable and bold workforce, able to creating surprises. I believe she would be the pet peeve of the event.

Interview by Mohamed HADJI