The coaches claim that the game will not be limited to friendlies
No football matches are limited to friendlies. A friendly match against China's Yunnan youth football team has become a similar opportunity for Nepali football. Nepal is competing with China's provincial youth team on Saturday at the Dasharath Stadium.
If coach Rajesh Shahi is to be believed, this match has become an opportunity for Nepal. Former midfielder Shahi believes that some players from the match against the Chinese team will also travel to the Nepali national team. He assigned the name of Suwin Lungeli Magar to it. According to the plan made by the Nepalese team, if Suwin plays against the Yunnan team, nobody can stop him from reaching the national team.
'In short, our preparation has been good, Nepal has a young team, we are confident of playing well,' Coach Shahi said about the preparations with the Yunnan youth team, 'We don't know much about the opponent, it seems like a better team has come than in the past. However, we will play according to our own rules. This kind of game makes it easy for young players to reach the national team.
Nepal will be led by Seemant Thapa. He said that even though it was only for 12-15 days, Nepal's preparation was good. This is a friendly football game to be played on the occasion of Chinese New Year. It started last year. Last year, the Nepali team won 5-1.
Liu Zhongling, the coach of the Yunnan youth football team, said that he hoped to present an exciting game. The difference between last year and this team is that this team is better than last year. This team has come here to play with players selected from the Yunnan Sports Department," he said, adding, "This is a big platform for our players and a challenge for them. We have found that all the preparations have been good since coming here.
Coach Zhong Ling's statement was also agreed by his captain Chang Yibao. He believed that the Yunnan youth team would play a good game as they came well prepared. Nepal's coach Shahi said that Nepali team is ready to play against the Chinese team even though there is less time for preparation than two weeks.
Shahi said that he made the Nepali team by giving priority to the players who played in U-18, U-19 and U-23. We called 45 people and started selecting the team, later we added some young players. "We have selected the team after playing 2-2 matches with Tribhuvan Army Club and APF Club," coach Shahi said, "we will play to win." We will play aggressively with a 3-4-3 strategy. When playing against a team that is better than us, we are often playing defensively. However, since they are young players, it is important to teach them aggressive play.
The Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu, the National Sports Council and the All Nepal Football Association are the organizers of this game.
