The Portuguese women’s soccer team will compete this Wednesday for access to the World Cup against Cameroon. A victory places Portugal for the first time in the biggest national team competition of the modality, in a match that will be played in New Zealand.
The Portuguese community in the country of Oceania has organized itself and is ready to support the Portuguese players. “We have a Portuguese community, a group of Portuguese, on Facebook where we talk, we communicate,” he says. TSF Cynthia Carvalho.
Lately, the conversations in the group have been about football: “Who is going to see it and who is not. There are a lot of people who go to the Hamilton stadium, which is an hour and a half from Auckland.”
“Maybe the Portuguese population isn’t that big and we can’t fill a stadium, but surely the population will be there,” Cynthia guarantees, although she herself can’t do it, since in Portugal the game starts at 06:30, but there the time zone is a little different: “The game will be at 19:00. I still have a day of work until the game.”
He won’t go to the stadium, but he will think about the game all the time. Different feeling than the New Zealanders, since football is not their thing.
“The sports here are rugby and cricket. Soccer is getting bigger and bigger, but even so I think it is more through foreigners, as was the men’s soccer world cup, there are many foreigners who want to watch the games in bars, there are bars that show the games and maybe it became bigger for foreigners. But football, in New Zealand, is not so well known”, explains the Portuguese resident in New Zealand.
And in terms of numbers, how long will the game last? “I would like them to win. A 2-0, perhaps, would be good. I think that the expectation, since we have never had a women’s soccer world cup, would be that we would qualify in today’s game. flag. I’m going to my flag dance practice. I am not present in the stadium, but I will be present with the nation and I will see it on television.”
Source: TSF
