{"id":36331,"date":"2018-08-09T18:19:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T18:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=36331"},"modified":"2018-08-09T18:19:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T18:19:39","slug":"we-are-here-to-win-the-saff-u-15-championship-d-souza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=36331","title":{"rendered":"We are here to win the SAFF U-15 Championship: D&#8217;Souza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-36330\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08-dsouza.jpg\" alt=\"08 dsouza\" width=\"525\" height=\"299\" style=\"margin: 1px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08-dsouza.jpg 738w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08-dsouza-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08-dsouza-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08-dsouza-696x396.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/>Ahead of India\u2019s clash against Sri Lanka in the opening match of the SAFF U-15 Women\u2019s Championship, Head Coach Firmin D\u2019Souza did not beat around the bush and stated that the Indian girls will be looking for nothing less than a victory.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Official Pre-Tournament Press Conference, D\u2019Souza said: \u201cWe will be looking to start our campaign on a positive note and will look to gather a win and three points. A win will guarantee of a strong position of getting out in the group and progressing into the semi-finals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Indian U-15 Women\u2019s National Team have been drawn in Group A along with Sri Lanka and hosts Bhutan. \u201cBoth Sri Lanka and Bhutan will provide challenges of their own but we are ready. The girls have been gearing hard for the SAFF Championship and are raring to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will be the second edition of the SAFF U-15 Women\u2019s Championship, the earlier one held in 2017 in Dhaka where the Indian girls finished runners-up to hosts Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the countries participating in the SAFF Cup have shown major improvement over the last 2 years especially Bangladesh as they qualified for the AFC Championship last year, won the SAFF Cup last year and this year in April went onto win the Four nation CGI Youth Football tournament,\u201d D\u2019Souza stated. \u201cThey seem to be a very formidable side and we will have to prepare well to face them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sitting on the dais beside D\u2019Souza, player Avika Singh stated: \u201cWe are here to play well and we will give our best in every match. We are not taking any team lightly. We believe in ourselves and our abilities to perform as a unit,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of India\u2019s clash against Sri Lanka in the opening match of the SAFF U-15 Women\u2019s Championship, Head Coach Firmin D\u2019Souza did not beat around the bush and stated that the Indian girls will be looking for nothing less than a victory. Speaking at the Official Pre-Tournament Press Conference, D\u2019Souza said: \u201cWe will be looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We are here to win the SAFF U-15 Championship: D&#039;Souza - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=36331\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We are here to win the SAFF U-15 Championship: D&#039;Souza - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ahead of India\u2019s clash against Sri Lanka in the opening match of the SAFF U-15 Women\u2019s Championship, Head Coach Firmin D\u2019Souza did not beat around the bush and stated that the Indian girls will be looking for nothing less than a victory. 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