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NEW DELHI: The swift announcement of the new dates for the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup India 2020 has helped the India U-17 Women\u2019s Team re-focus their efforts to prepare for the tournament, feels head coach Thomas Dennerby.<\/p>\nNEW DELHI: The swift announcement of the new dates for the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup India 2020 has helped the India U-17 Women\u2019s Team re-focus their efforts to prepare for the tournament, feels head coach Thomas Dennerby.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first step was to get a definitive answer about the new dates for the World Cup. You can prepare all you want, but when we got a definitive date from FIFA, that really rejuvenated everyone,\u201d Dennerby said in a Live Session on the Indian Football Team Facebook page.<\/p>\n
The competition was originally slated to be held in India in November, this year. However, due to the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, it has been postponed for a start on February 17, 2021.<\/p>\n
The India U-17 Women\u2019s Team coaching staff has been holding regular webinars with the players in an effort to monitor their indoor training activities. The 60-year-old Swede believes that the announcement of the new dates has meant that the glimmer was back in the eyes of the players during each online training session.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our webinars and meetings, we could really see that the girls found that glimmer back in their eyes. Yes, a deadline and a target can do wonders,\u201d he smiled.<\/p>\n
Dennerby, who has come to India with the experience of coaching the Sweden and Nigeria women\u2019s teams in the senior FIFA World Cups, believes that the postponement has well-compensated for the pitch-time lost during the Coronavirus Lockdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, we have lost some time during the Lockdown, but that is something that everyone has to go through. Besides that, the postponement of the tournament has compensated for this period, I feel,\u201d said Dennerby, who had guided Sweden to a third-place finish in the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup 2011.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have further used this time to work on the girls\u2019 fitness. We have given them all training routines, and have been monitoring their progress steadily. I believe that they will be much fitter when they join the team for the camp, once the Lockdown is over,\u201d the coach informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The swift announcement of the new dates for the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup India 2020 has helped the India U-17 Women\u2019s Team re-focus their efforts to prepare for the tournament, feels head coach Thomas Dennerby.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first step was to get a definitive answer about the new dates for the World Cup. You can prepare all you want, but when we got a definitive date from FIFA, that really rejuvenated everyone,\u201d Dennerby said in a Live Session on the Indian Football Team Facebook page.<\/p>\n
The competition was originally slated to be held in India in November, this year. However, due to the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, it has been postponed for a start on February 17, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football-football"],"yoast_head":"\n