This Wednesday, the Portuguese women’s football team beat Cameroon 2-1 in the Intercontinental Play-off to qualify for the World Cup in this category for the first time.
The game kicks off at 7:30 pm local time (6:30 am in Lisbon) at the Waikato Stadium in New Zealand, where the team coached by Francisco Neto beat the New Zealand team 5-0 on Friday in a preparatory match. .
For Portugal (22nd in the world rankings), the clash with Cameroon (58th) will be the most important in its history of women’s football, in a path that is growing after having already participated in two European Championships in 2017. and 2022.
In the 2023 World Cup qualification, Portugal were second in their group behind Germany, and in the European playoffs they beat Belgium (now ranked 20th) 2-1 and Iceland (16th) 4-1. 1 after extra time.
A scenario that, however, did not prevent him from playing in this intercontinental play-off, in which he will find Cameroon, who eliminated Thailand on Saturday (2-0), in the last hurdle before the World Cup.
Francisco Neto has a Portuguese team that has seven wins in a row between official and private games, at 100%, while in Cameroon coach Gabriel Zabo will not be able to field goalkeeper Ange Bava sent off against the Thais.
The meeting between Portugal and Cameroon corresponds to the final of group A of the intercontinental playoffs.
The winner advances to the final phase and is placed in Group E with the Netherlands (July 23 game), last World Championship silver medalists, Vietnam (July 27) and defending champions USA (August 01).
The 2023 Women’s World Cup final will be held in Australia and New Zealand from 20 July to 20 August.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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