The current European champions proved to be too strong of a challenge: The women’s under-19 national team succumbed to esteemed opponents in Radenci
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Slovenian women’s national team under 19 has started competing in the qualifiers for the European Youth Championship today. The tournament in group A1, which is also part of league A, will take place here from today until April 9. The matches will be played in Radenci and Bakovci. The under 19 national team found themselves in an extremely challenging group, as demonstrated in the opening match against Spain. The current European champions were indeed superior to our team, winning by 5:0.
The under 19 national team lost to the Spanish mainly due to physical fitness
Despite our girls’ good resistance, it was clear that the quality was considerably on the side of the Spaniards, who also made good use of their quality. They scored three times already in the first half. First, Lucia Corrales, a member of Barcelona, put the Spaniards in the lead, and then 19-year-old Jone Amezaga, scored twice, despite her young age, she is already getting a chance in the senior team of Athletic Bilbao. The Spaniards scored twice more in the second half. First, Ainhoa Alguacil, who plays for Valencia, scored the third goal of the match, and the fifth Spanish goal was celebrated by Jone Amezaga, thus setting the final score at 5:0.
“We cannot be satisfied with the result. We didn’t want so many goals in our net, but we knew they were much better. We knew that Spain is the favorite of the tournament alongside Denmark. It is a privilege for us to play in such a demanding group: our girls have earned it with their past work. We are in a tough group: we would like to stay, ahead of us are tough matches against Denmark and Greece. We lacked physical and technical levels. Physical fitness influenced certain situations. In the future, we will need to work more and better on this,” said Tina Kelenberger, the national team coach, after the match.
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