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[Central News Agency] To prepare for the women's World Cup play-offs, the Taiwan women's football team went to the United States to transfer training for 2 weeks. The head coach Yan Shikai said today that he will go to Thailand in January next year for 2 friendly matches to review the training results, and does not rule out actual competition. , to simulate a PK war.

The Women's World Cup "10-to-3" intercontinental play-off will be held in New Zealand on February 18 next year. The Taiwan women's football team will be assigned to Group C. They must beat Paraguay first, and then beat the winner between Papua New Guinea and Panama In order to advance to the World Cup again after 1991.

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Head coach Yan Shikai led 24 players to the United States for transfer training on December 4, and returned to Taiwan on the 17th. He accepted an interview with Central News Agency and said that this time the whole team is training at a local comprehensive training academy in Florida, mainly considering that the local climate may be different from next year's 2 Similar to New Zealand, another reason to want to feel the intensity of American football style.

However, due to the hasty plan to go to the United States for training, it happened to be during the truce of the university football team. Yan Shikai revealed that he later arranged a friendly match between the Taiwan women's football team and the U19 girls' and U16 boys' teams of the training academy.

Different from the previous retraining that focused on tactical drills and friendly matches, Yan Shikai specially increased the proportion of physical training this time, focusing on cardiopulmonary training. He said that observing the East Asian Cup in July this year, the players' physical fitness is enough to cope with the first 60 minutes. Intensive matches, but after that began to concede goals, in addition to the technical level, it may also be related to physical fitness not keeping up with the opponent.

"In February next year, there will be no chance for the play-offs if we lose the first game. The intensity will definitely not be low." Yan Shikai said that he hopes to use this time for special physical training. The goal is to allow players to have a full 90 minutes of physical fitness. Winning or losing, there may be a playoff or a PK battle. "Maybe you have to prepare not only for 90 minutes, but for 120 minutes."

Through the training process, Yan Shikai understands the physical limits of the players in the team. In addition to being more aware of the players' starting positions and substitute positions, he can also grasp the timing of personnel changes.

The Taiwanese women's football team has only had a three-day break after returning to Taiwan. Training resumed on the 21st. They will go to Thailand in January next year to compete with the Thai team, which is also preparing for the play-offs. Two friendly matches are expected.

The Taiwan women's football team lost to the Philippines in the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup at the beginning of this year and missed the opportunity to qualify for the World Cup ahead of schedule. will be included as part of the training.

Talking about whether the friendly match with Thailand in January next year will specially arrange a PK battle for rehearsal, Yan Shikai said that he really intends to propose the idea of ​​simulating a PK battle to the Thai team, but he will have to confirm with the Thai team at that time.

After going to Thailand for training, the Taiwan women's football team is expected to return to Taiwan on January 19 next year for the Chinese New Year, start training on January 24, and head to New Zealand on February 8 to prepare for the play-offs.

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