The Nepali national women's football team, which arrived in Tashkent for the AFC Women's Asia Cup qualifiers, will play against Laos on Sunday
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The Nepali national women's football team arrived in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, on Wednesday. This is exactly four days before the start of the AFC Women's Asia Cup qualifiers.
Patrick de Wilde, the head coach of the Nepali team and his assistants, have emphasized on one thing since the first day, that is to adapt the players to the weather here as much as possible. Besides, there is not much difference between the weather of Kathmandu and Tashkent.
Well, these two cities are nothing but 2000 km apart from each other. The time difference is only 45 minutes. The temperature in Tashkent was around 30 degrees Celsius on Thursday evening. At this time, the temperature in Kathmandu was 28 degrees. Coach Wild told Kantipur, "There is not much difference in the weather, but our players are not used to playing in summer."
Nepal will play its first match against Laos on Sunday. Then it will be Sri Lanka's turn. It will fall on Wednesday. And Saturday's game is against the hosts, Uzbekistan. All matches will be played at Milli Stadium. All the four teams of Group F will play against each other once. There will be two competitions on the day of the match, one at 5 pm and the other at 8 pm. Uzbekistan, Nepal's main rival in the
selection, will play all their matches at 8 o'clock. There is only one late game in Nepal's side. It is against Uzbekistan. It is certain that the weather at this time will be cold. Coach Wilde says, "We're going to play the first two games soon." That is, in hot weather. So our only policy now is to make the players weather-friendly.''
is the doctor of the Nepali team, Elisha Rai. She says, "Tashkent is more humid than Kathmandu. It may cause respiratory problems for the players. He is afraid, it may cause the problem of 'dehydration' in the players. "That's why our players are drinking as much water as possible," she said.
She adds, 'Now the players are practicing in time for the first two games to acclimatise themselves. This will increase the customization ability in the player. That's why we are all now focusing on the gym and team strategy meetings.'
