2023 Women's World Cup: Senegalese dream of historic qualification
The Senegal football team during the women's CAN 2022.
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Text by: Ndiasse Sambe Follow
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The Senegal women's football team will play, along with Cameroon, the play-off tournament for the 2023 World Cup from Saturday, February 18.
Galvanized by the results of men's football, the Lionesses dream of a first participation in the World Cup.
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Senegalese football has been living the finest hours in its history for a year and the victory, the first, of the Lions at CAN 2022. A success that triggered euphoria, but above all a great dynamic on which the national football teams of the country are surfing. country.
The local team has just won the CHAN, the U20s have just landed in Egypt with the ambition of winning the CAN for the first time.
Like the big ones.
Today, it is the players of the women's selection who strongly believe in a first qualification for the World Cup.
The Senegalese have never been so close to a historic participation and will try to win it with the play-off tournament in New Zealand.
It will first be necessary to beat Haiti on Saturday 18, then Chile, on Wednesday 23.
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We have two matches that I consider finals
," said Lionesses coach Mame Moussa Cissé.
We will have to put all the means on our side to be able to beat Haiti first and then Chile.
Our ambition is to qualify a Senegalese women's team for a World Cup for the first time.
It will be important for women's football in our country
."
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A leading Marseille trio
The Lionesses of Senegal have been on New Zealand soil for two weeks, the time to recover from jet lag (1 p.m.), even if expatriate players like captain Safiétou Sagna (FC Metz) or Awa Diakhaté nicknamed "Neymar" (Olympique de Marseille) have only arrived in recent days.
Along with Awa Diakhaté, Olympians Mama Diop and Mbayang Sow are expected to act as team guides.
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They have made tremendous progress tactically.
There is more maturity, more ease and understanding of the game systems. They will be assets for Senegal, because they constitute the backbone of the team, says Mame Moussa Cissé on the FIFA website
.
Each of them play on a line: Mbayang Sow is in defense, Awa Diakhaté is in the middle
and Mama is in attack.
With their experience, experience and talent, they must carry the team.
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In the event of qualification for the World Cup, the Senegalese will play in group D alongside England, China and Denmark.
Ten teams for three places
The Women's World Cup play-off tournament takes place from February 17-24.
Ten teams are competing for the last three places for the final phase: Portugal, Cameroon, Thailand, Chile, Haiti, Senegal, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, and Panama.
For the posters, Cameroon will face Thailand for a place in the final of Group A where Portugal awaits.
Chile will wait, for its part, for the winner of Senegal - Haiti in Group B. In Group C, the winners of Taiwan - Paraguay and Papua New Guinea - Panama will compete for a place.
The African teams already qualified are Nigeria, Morocco, Zambia and South Africa
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