Northern Ireland looking to concrete legacy

• Northern Ireland hosts Women’s U-19 EURO (8–20 Aug 2017)
• Four berths during 2018 U-20 Women’s World Cup available
• Tournament can leave durability bequest on NI women’s game

As a dirt settles on one vital general contest in a women’s game, another is set to get underway. Just dual days after hosts Netherlands savoured UEFA Women’s EURO success, a UEFA Women’s Under-19 Championship kicks off in Northern Ireland, where 4 berths during a 2018 FIFA U-20 Women’s Cup are adult for grabs.

While a likes of Spain, Germany, France and England are among a 8 finalists opposed for continental glory, a U-19 EURO presents new belligerent for hosts Northern Ireland; nonetheless to underline during a vital women’s general contest and really most minnows compared to a seasoned contest regulars who have collected in a Emerald Isle.

But with poignant investment carrying left into a U-19 team, a Irish Football Association (IFA) are penetrating not usually to showcase a growth of women’s football within Northern Ireland, though assistance build a foundations for a stronger women’s comparison organisation in a future.

“The U-19 EURO is a biggest organisation of people we’ve ever mobilised to work on a women’s football eventuality [in Northern Ireland],” pronounced contest executive Sara Booth, vocalization to FIFA.com. “We wanted to horde this contest to grow a women’s diversion and see some-more girls and immature boys personification football after examination chosen European talent during this level. We wish this contest to leave a legacy.”

The Groups

• Group A: Northern Ireland, Germany, Scotland, Spain
• Group B: Italy, Netherlands, France, England

Take a wander by Belfast and we can’t skip a billboards, flags and buses clad with a foe signage, while a central contest strain and mascot have also prisoner a imagination of football fans in a country. Though poignant investment has left into a selling of a tournament, resources have also been heavily extended to a U-19 organisation itself. 

Only a month until a UEFA Women’s Under 19 Championships! Here’s a central strain by @Trionamusic ⚽️ #WePlayStrong #GameChangers pic.twitter.com/bGflMtpcNT

— Official Irish FA (@OfficialIrishFA) July 8, 2017

“The investment we’ve put it into a players over a final dual years – sports science, psychology – we’ve never invested as most in a organisation of players before,” pronounced Booth, a former Northern Ireland captain. “The wish for us is that we will have a gifted organisation who will go on to make comparison general appearances and it kicks off from there.”

Senior aspirations
The pathway for Northern Ireland U-19 talents anticipating to connoisseur to comparison turn is maybe some-more open with conduct manager Alfie Wylie heading both teams. With subordinate starting for a 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup only subsequent month, those who stir during a U-19 EURO might find themselves personification a partial on a highway to France 2019.

“That’s a inducement we’ve given to a players,” Wylie told FIFA.com. “There’s not many teams during this contest where a manager also leads a comparison team, so each time a players impress, a comparison organisation manager is saying first-hand what they can do.

“This is a start of a pathway for them,” Wylie continued. “All of this doesn’t stop when a contest is over, this is partial of a journey. We’re penetrating to uncover that we are developing, and with a girls that are entrance through, we wish to be a force in a future.”

From San Diego to Belfast! Meet a latest Women’s Under 19 actor Leyla McFarland! #GAWA #BestofNI pic.twitter.com/ygx7ayPqW8

— Official Irish FA (@OfficialIrishFA) July 23, 2017

World Cup dreams
Placed 60th in a FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking, Northern Ireland are nonetheless to seem during a women’s FIFA contest and a comparison side find themselves ranked as a bottom seed in a daunting organisation consisting of Norway, a Netherlands, Republic of Ireland and Slovakia on a highway to France 2019. The U-19 EURO, however, presents a genuine event for a nation to strech their initial tellurian finals in a form of a U-20 Women’s World Cup, where 4 berths for France 2018 are available.

“To consider we could validate for France subsequent year, it would be incredible,” pronounced Booth. “Alfie is vehement by that intensity though we all know that it’s a tough plea – there’s no easy teams in this draw.”

Northern Ireland have lustful and really clear memories of France, where a men’s comparison organisation reached a knockout stages of UEFA EURO 2016 during their lass continental championships notwithstanding being one of a smallest teams during a tournament. As a U-19 organisation demeanour to try and secure a place during France 2018 and open a warn of their own, they will no doubt use a exploits of Michael O’Neill’s comparison side final year as combined motivation.

“The U-19s take impulse from how good a boys did final summer and that’s really most a wish of a organisation that that’ll pass on and enthuse a girls to do good things.”

Hear a final summary from Captain Steven Davis other comparison players for a Women U19s before @WU19EURO2017! #GAWA #DareToDream pic.twitter.com/SS2j3wg31E

— Northern Ireland (@NorthernIreland) August 6, 2017

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