In anticipation of Tuesday’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) final round 2nd leg qualifier against Namibia, Black Queens coach Nora Häuptle says her team is still composed, at ease, and focused.
In the first leg at the Accra Sports Stadium, the Black Queens defeated the Namibians 3-1 thanks to a fierce display of play. The coach discussed their current play as well as the home-win advantage heading into the second leg of the competition.
Before the return leg, GFA Communications had a conversation with Swiss tactician Nora Häuptle about a variety of topics. The coach said during the meeting,
We won the first game in Ghana at home with a big crowd and 3-1 results, and it’s good to come with this result. Here we are very focused, humble, and very determined. We work a lot on our values and determination is one so we had a good start now.
We trained today in the stadium here with an amazing pitch. We are a team who likes to play and the ball is rolling fast here, and so for us everything is ready and we are ready. This is our attitude and also to develop ourselves to our routines that helps us to stay calm and the final training was absolutely amazing.
In football, never, we have all in the bag. We have enough experience players now and they know what it is about staying humble in camp.
We also had a good video analysis session with some details also to adjust from the last game and we practice those elements on the pitch today.
On unbeaten run and approach to the game
Still unbeaten as we have won all ten games and this makes us proud. We have developed our performance and our style of play and also the kind of values we live in our team. We have a very good cohesion and very clear basis on which we act on. After the game I never think about anything else. I take this as the next game, we prepare like always so we are quite calm, relax towards the game.
With a victory over Namibia, the Black Queens will guarantee their spot to participate in the upcoming WAFCON tournament.
