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Hanoi: The Indian U-19 Women’s Team landed safely in Hanoi today (October 31, 2016) morning for the forthcoming AFC U-19 Women’s Championship which kicks-off from November 2, 2016.<\/p>\nHanoi: The Indian U-19 Women’s Team landed safely in Hanoi today (October 31, 2016) morning for the forthcoming AFC U-19 Women’s Championship which kicks-off from November 2, 2016.<\/p>\n
India have been clubbed with hosts Vietnam and a strong Iran in Group D and only the Group winners will qualify for the final stage which is to be held next year.<\/p>\n
The girls who left Delhi on Diwali night got a pleasant surprise when they bumped into National Coach Stephen Constantine at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. Constantine who was on his way to DPR Korea to conduct a FIFA Coaching Course met the girls asking them to “fight.”<\/p>\n
“Fight,” he stressed. “Don’t let them dominate you. Show them who you are. Fight on the field. Good luck,” he told the contingent. The girls even posed for a picture with the National Coach.<\/p>\n
Head Coach Sajid Dar maintained meeting the National Coach was a “morale booster” for the squad.<\/p>\n
“It was such a nice gesture from the National Coach to walk up to us and meet the girls. It was the much needed encouragement for the girls and even the support staff – a morale booster. Stephen gave his best wishes and it means a lot,” Sajid told www.the-aiff.com.<\/p>\n
The girls, nevertheless, were greeted by a drizzle at Hanoi. The weather forecast predicts rain for the next five days but Sajid isn’t much perturbed.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, it’s raining. But hopefully it won’t affect us much. The temperatures are more or less similar to what we had in Gandhinagar where we trained for a month,” he quipped.<\/p>\n
The Indian contingent is based at the Vietnam Football Federation’s National Training Centre which boasts of accommodation facilities, the pantry, training grounds and even the Match ground.<\/p>\n
The Indian girls had a light training session late afternoon. “It was an overnight travel for us. We need to settle down fast. We will have another session tomorrow,” Sajid informed.<\/p>\n
India first play Iran on November 2 followed by a match against hosts Vietnam on November 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hanoi: The Indian U-19 Women’s Team landed safely in Hanoi today (October 31, 2016) morning for the forthcoming AFC U-19 Women’s Championship which kicks-off from November 2, 2016.<\/p>\n
India have been clubbed with hosts Vietnam and a strong Iran in Group D and only the Group winners will qualify for the final stage which is to be held next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[18671,18672,12975,466],"class_list":["post-29705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football-football","tag-afc-u-19-womens-championship","tag-fifa-coaching-course","tag-football-news","tag-indian-sports-news"],"yoast_head":"\n