by Bogotá, 3 pages (EFE).- Attacker Linda Caicedo, 17 years old and elected last Saturday as the best player of the Copa América, leads the list that Colombia will take to the Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica, which hace parte del Grupo B with Alemania, New Zealand and México.
In addition to Caicedo, in the World Cup there will also be other players who were part of the team that was runner-up in the Copa América Femenina, such as the midfielder Gisela Robledo, who plays in the Spanish Tenerife, América de la Volontaria de Gabriela, Rodriguez.
Equally, the convocatoria hacen parte promesas como la portera Natalia Giraldo, la centrocampista Ilana Izquierdo y la forwarda Ingrid Guerra, que pese su juventud ya cuenta con una ample experiencia como profesionales.
“Estamos muy felices de poder llegar al Mundial, por toda la preparation que se ha tenido y con el group, con el cuerpo técnico, tenemos expectación muy grandes que se viene”, expresó este miércoles Izquierdo, que juega en el University Southern , the United States.
The player, who appeared before the press in Bogotá, assured that Group B will not be easy, because it will go “step by step, party by party” and now only think of the powerful Alemania, which will be the rival of the debut until 10 de agosto en el estadio Alejandro Morera Soto de la ciudad de Alajuela.
“Hemos visto videos de Alemania, es un buen equipo, un gran rival. Likewise (lo son) México y Nueva Zelanda, vamos partido a partido, planificando las cosas como deben ser y dejándolo todo en la chacha en cada momento”, he said young.
The team that will have Colombia in Costa Rica, according to the player, is characterized by the joy it shows in the terrain, something that is complemented by the “technical wealth” of those who make up the group of 21 football players who will go to Iran.
“(Nuestro equipo sobresale por) la velocidad que tenemos en las players de arriba y en las bandas, también el juego que podemos plantar con el balón al piso, en los pies, o también el juego largo buscando la velocidad al frente que tenemos” , destacó.
The only downside that Colombia will have in the World Cup will be that of the lateral Sintia Cabezas, who is not in optimal conditions for the competition due to a knee injury suffered in a tournament in Paraguay.
“Lo de Sintia Cabezas unfortunately she was in Paraguay for an international tournament; she had a knee injury and she was recovering in Cali; she arrived in Bogotá in this last microciclo, which we started last week, and she is stable, but now she is not en condiciones de jugar el Mundial”, explained the selector of Colombia, Carlos Paniagua.
This will be the second World Cup in the category that Colombia contested after having contested in 2010 in Germany, one that was a semi-finalist with a team led by midfielder Daniela Montoya and midfielder Yoreli Rincón.
These are the players summoned by Paniagua for the Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica:
Goalkeepers: Natalia Giraldo (América de Cali), Valentina González (La Equidad) and Valery Restrepo (Formas Íntimas).
Defense: Ángela Barón (EUA-D`Feeters Kicks), Kelly Caicedo (Deportivo Cali), Mary José Álvarez (Formas Íntimas), Stefanía Perlaza (Deportivo Cali) and Yunaira López (Formas Íntimas).
Sentrocampistas: Ana María Guzmán (Deportivo Pereira), Gabriela Rodríguez (América de Cali), Gisela Robledo (ESP-Tenerife), Ilana Izquierdo (EUA-University of Southern Mississipi), Juana Ortegón (Deportivo Cali), Karla Torres (Independiente Santa Fe ). ), María Camila Reyes (Independiente Santa Fe), Mariana Muñoz (Atlético Nacional) and Liced Serna (ESP-Valencia CF).
Participants: Ingrid Guerra (Deportivo Cali), Linda Caicedo (Deportivo Cali), Wendy Bonilla (América de Cali) and Yirleidis Quejada (Formas Íntimas).
(c) Agencia EFE
