Banyana Banyana Coach Desiree Ellis says no player is guaranteed to start a match at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
This will be the first ever Women’s World Cup with 32 participating teams. Banyana’s main aim for now is to progress to the round of 16. Banyana Banyana captain Refiloe Jane says they have got what it takes to do well.
“Our first and main focus is on Sweden. We can’t look at other teams already and plan for that, we have to take it one game at a time. Yes there are certain things that we are aware of and what they going do. But I think if you look at the South Americans style of play versus our style of play, it’s a lot similar. I think that it will be a lot easier in terms of analysing them.”
“First of all since well it’s my first World Cup all I can say before anything else is there’s a lot of emotions, there is nervousness but after all I believe that I’m capable of anything so it’s about me being myself and also getting all the support I can get from my teammates and also working together as a team so that we can be able to achieve whatever we want to achieve.
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