Africa-Press – Cape verde. The senior women’s national handball team travels this Sunday to Senegal, where they will represent Cape Verde at the African Cup of Nations (CAN) 2022.
The entourage showed itself, this Saturday, convinced of a good performance in the race that starts on the 9th, in Dakar.
According to the coach, Fernando Fernandes, quoted by Inforpress, the selected athletes are focused on a good performance and prepared to go as far as possible, based on a lot of work.
In Senegal, the Portuguese coach said that Cabo Verde has scheduled three training sessions by the competition’s own organization and that the technical team has worked out a plan to maintain the athletes’ physical shape, adding that the technical-tactical content will have to be reserved for the short time available. .
keep the level
“We are going to try to maintain the level we had here, which we were refining and improving details, above all, both in terms of viewing games and in terms of organizing the strategy that we are going to use in the RD Congo (debut game) which is this is the focus”, he explained.
Regarding Cape Verde’s opposing teams in Group A, namely DR Congo, Angola and Algeria, Fernando Fernandes admitted that “information is scarce”, since the technical team only watched a few videos with DR Congo and Angola and two Algeria’s Mediterranean games, stating that “although it is not ideal, it is already something”.
Even so, Fernando Fernandes said that Cape Verde’s objective is, above all, to do the best possible, shorten the distance against big teams, such as Angola considered an African reference, assured that the Creole collective wants to reach the highest level.
List of invitees:
Goalkeepers: Isandra Semedo (ABC, Santiago Sul), Eneida Lopes (ABC, Santiago Sul and Animata Sandem (Picos, Santiago Norte).
Marta Coelho (Assomada, Portugal), Kiara Tavares (ABC, Santiago, South), Maria Correia (ABC, Santiago South), Suzana Barros (ABC, Santiago South), Miriam Almeida (Assomada, Portugal), Iliana Semedo (ABC, Santiago Sul), Marilene Reis (Amarante, São Vicente), Letícia Delgado (Atlético, Mindelo), Odete Tavares (PT Handball, Portugal), Jorgeana Carvalho (ABC, Santiago Sul), Kelly Rodrigues (Atlético, Mindelo), Josina Fortes (Amarante, São Vicente), Tânia Afonseca (Gil Eanes, Portugal), Oriana Lopes (ABC, Santiago Sul) and Elodi Delgado (Amarante, São Vicente).
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