Women’s football team heading to New Zealand for World Cup 2023

On July 5, the Vietnamese national women’s football team and head coach Mai Duc Chung departed from Hanoi for New Zealand to start their 2023 FIFA World Cup campaign.

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They are scheduled to arrive in New Zealand at 9:00 am on July 6. (Photo: VFF)

They are scheduled to arrive in New Zealand at 9:00 am on July 6. After landing, the team will then head to Auckland City for two weeks of training before competing at the sporting event. They will also have two friendly matches in order to test their lineup, with fixtures scheduled against New Zealand on July 10 and Spain on July 14.

At the FIFA Women’s World Cup, Vietnam has been named in Group E and will face the US on July 22, Portugal on July 27, and the Netherlands on August 1.

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Vietnamese national women’s football team. (Photo: VFF)

To prepare for the finals, the team took training camps in Japan and Germany.

Over the past time, the “golden girls" have been crowned SEA Games champions eight times, and won a ticket to the 2024 Olympic First Qualifier.

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(Source: Vietnamplus)