Ahad 22 Sep 2024 09:23 WIB

PSSI Trains the Women's National Team in Japan and the Netherlands

The women's team will have a friendly match against the Dutch women's national team.

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Head Coach of Indonesia Women U-17 Team Satoru Mochizuki (right) gives instructions during a test match against Arema Women at Stadion I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Denpasar, Bali, Wednesday (1/5/2024).
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Head Coach of Indonesia Women U-17 Team Satoru Mochizuki (right) gives instructions during a test match against Arema Women at Stadion I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Denpasar, Bali, Wednesday (1/5/2024).

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- PSSI stated that the Indonesian women's national football team is scheduled to undergo a training concentration (TC) in Japan and will face the Dutch national team in the international match official FIFA.

“The women's team will leave for Japan on September 24 and will be there until October 21, 2024. After that, they travel to the Netherlands to face the Dutch national team on FIFA match day on October 25,” said PSSI Executive Committee member Vivin Cahyani Sungkono at Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium (SUGBK), Jakarta, Saturday (21/9/2024).

Vivin, the only female member of Exco PSSI 2023-2027, said that the women's national team schedule is very tight towards the end of the year. At the moment, she continued, the women's team is undergoing TC in Jakarta, which is attended by 25 players. They will fly to Japan on Tuesday (September 24), where three Indonesian diaspora players will join, bringing the number of women's national team personnel to 28.

In Japan, the skills of the Indonesian women's national team will be honed in the Japanese way, under the direct supervision of coach Satoru Mochizuki. In 2011, Satoru co-led the 2011 FIFA World Cup champion Japan women's national team as an assistant coach.