What the qualification of the Colombian women’s team left behind
Colombia coach Carlos Paniagua said on Wednesday that he was satisfied with his team’s performance, because they played the match “very calmly,” which led to their victory over South Korea and qualification for the quarterfinals of the U-20 Women’s World Cup.
The Colombian coach, who was born in Medellín 61 years ago and took over the management of the U-17 and U-20 youth teams in 2021, said about the 1-0 victory that the rival made things difficult for his team but stressed that that is why “this is a World Cup.”
“They are very important rivals, look, South Korea is coming off a win over Germany, they were a tough opponent but our secret today was that we worked the game very calmly, with and without the ball,” he said in the mixed zone of the Pascual Guerrero stadium in Cali at the end of the match.
And faced with the footballing challenge proposed by the South Koreans, Paniagua stressed that the group grew more today than it did in the matches of the first phase.
“We had more possession, we were more important with the ball, we were calm and we didn’t stretch too much because we didn’t want to give space to our rival, a fast rival that plays well between the lines and I think Colombia is a fair winner.”
With information from EFE Agency.