By: EFE Updated 07 Apr 2022, 16: 41 pm EDT
The Mexican women’s team traveled this Thursday to Anguilla to face the local national team on Saturday in the resumption of the Concacaf W Championship Qualifying, the first round in the confederation of the qualifiers for the World Cup Australia-New Zealand 2023.
The Mexicans, led by Real Madrid defender Kenti Robles, will make an eight-hour flight and resume training on Friday, one day before facing Anguilla, his penultimate match in qualifying.
The ‘Tri’ led by coach Mónica Vergara is in first place in group A of the tournament with six points, the same as second place, Puerto Rico , with which the pass to the W Championship will be played next 12 in April at the Nemesio Díez stadium in the Mexican city of Toluca.
In In their first two games, Mexico scored a couple of goals, 9-0 when hosting Suriname and 0-8 in their visit to Antigua and Barbuda.
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Mexico beat Suriname 9-0, at the start of qualifying for the Concacaf Women’s Championship.
The goals were scored by Katty Martínez (2), Diana García (2), Stephany Mayor, Rebeca Bernal, Carolina Jaramillo, Maricarmen Reyes and Licha Cervantes. pic.twitter.com/z0rF2F4YHh
— The Power of Soccer ⚽ (@PoderFutbol) February 18, 2023
Both triumphs put her in the first place in its group, in which it must remain to play the Concacaf W Championship from 4 to 16 July in Monterrey, a city located in northern Mexico.
To fulfill his task of returning to Mexico to a World Cup after not going to France 2019, Vergara will rely on his base of soccer players made up of Robles, Emily Alvarado, goalkeeper of the French Stade de Remis; the captain of Monterrey, Rebeca Bernal; Stephany Mayor, from the UANL Tigres, and María Sánchez, from the American Houston Dash.
The six best teams from this first round of the qualifiers and the best classified in Concacaf, the United States and Canada will play in Monterrey.
The W Championship distributes four tickets to the World Cup of 2023, a place in the Olympic Games of Paris 2024 and another to the Concacaf Gold Cup W 2024.
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