Brazil will prepare in Sweden for women's World Cup
21/8/2007 16:50
Brazil's national women's football team left yesterday to Sweden, where
they will prepare for the FIFA Women's World Cup China 2007.
According to a
statement released yesterday by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the
team will hold the second part of their preparation for the tournament in the
sports center of the club Umea IK.
The players joined on Aug. 13 to practice
at the CBF training center in Rio de Janeiro. In Sweden, the squad will play two
friendly matches as warm up for the World Cup and, on Aug. 30, they will go to
Japan, where they are scheduled to play another friendly, against the Japanese
team, on Sept. 2 in the city of Chiba.
The Brazilian delegation is expected
to arrive in China on Sept. 4. The World Cup starts on Sept. 10, and their first
adversaries will be the New Zealanders, on Sept 12 in Wuhan. Still in the
preliminaries for Group D, the Brazilians will face China, on Sept. 15 also in
Wuhan, and Denmark, on Sept. 19 in Hangzhou.
On July 26, the Brazilians won
the gold medal in the Pan American Games by beating the US 5-0 in Rio. At the
time, Umea's striker Marta, holder of the 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year
prize, was the first woman to leave her footprint at the Maracana Stadium's Walk
of Fame, which pays homage to football legends like Pele and Franz Beckenbauer.
Xinhua
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