On Sunday, the National Female U-17 Selection played their return match of the World Cup Qualifier against Guatemala.
Well, the girls played bravely against the technically superior team, but in the end they lost with a final score of 7 to nil.
The fans looked on in disappointment, as one by one the Guatemala loaded the goals up on Belize, ending it 1 goal less than the game in Guatemala.
We spoke to the National Team coach about what caused such a performance:
Mr. Kent Gabourel - Head Coach
"Well our weakness, watching both games - we only had 15 days to train together as a team so there was a lot of weakness, conditions and techniques, the field - especially when it comes to the goalkeepers we invited the players to come for the tryout, nobody came out as goalkeeper so we tried to work with what we had. I should say that I am satisfied with what they have done because I know that we could have done better but if we had the amount of time. We made a lot of attack where we could have scored three or four goals. We had clear opportunity but I would say experience wise caught them up and they started to get tired. After they got tired they started to loose their position and the girls from Guatemala had more conditions, more ball work, techniques and passing and we have to be chasing and they got over us with that. The tournament was too short and the Federation decided to sign up but I think we should be preparing longer and have playing practice matches. We didn't have any opportunity to play any practice match and that really took a lot from us and I think we should have more practice match internationally, right over to Chetumal to get the girls them used to it."
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