Pioneering Herrera cherishing a Libertadores dream

Alejandra Herrera is not fearful of blazing a trail. In a few brief days, she will register another useful landmark in her life by apropos a initial actor from El Salvador to seem in a Women’s Copa Libertadores.

“I’m vehement about it and it pushes me to keep going,” pronounced a captain of River Plate, a 2017 Argentinian champions, in an disdainful talk with FIFA.com. “I know it can be a emporium window for a rest of a girls in El Salvador since there is talent in my nation and a lot of it too. Being a purpose indication for them and opening doors and pulling them to go and do a same unequivocally motivates me.”

Fact file
Name: Alejandra Herrera Reyes
Age: 24
Achievements: the initial womanlike actor from El Salvador to win a pretension in South America
International career: U-17s, U-20s, U-23s, full inhabitant team
Position: right midfield (River Plate) or playmaker (El Salvador)

Alejandra on a Copa Libertadores:
A singular experience
“Playing in this Libertadores is a biggest feat of my career so far, along with winning a joining title. I’m really excited. It’s my initial Libertadores and River’s initial too. It’s a personal and veteran feat to be a partial of this process.”

River’s chances
“I consider we can win a foe even yet we’ve got first-teamers who are as immature as 15 and 16. They’re impossibly talented, though, and as a group we’re in good figure too. We’re a fittest side in Argentina.”

 

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Alejandra on her time in Argentina
On her attainment in Feb 2015
“I was creation preparations to go to a USA and there was a FIFA grassroots march in El Salvador. That was where we met Diego Guacci (a former River Plate manager and a FIFA instructor), who pronounced we could come. I’d never even envisaged it yet we came and had a trial. The joining in El Salvador wasn’t going to exam me. It would have been too gentle for me and we wasn’t going to grow.”

The best things about Argentinian women’s football
“The preparation, what I’ve schooled about a game, and feeling good about my physique and being improved prepared. There’s a lot of earthy hit here. we wasn’t used to holding knocks all a time yet it pushed me to go and find a strength we indispensable to make it.”

Alejandra on football in her country
The talent
“We play a cuter, some-more deceit diversion than in a rest of Central American, like a kind of football we play on a street. The ability levels are high yet we need to make that change in terms of preparation, so we can demonstrate ourselves improved on a earthy turn and be as rival as a rest.”

The Copa UNCAF, a subordinate foe for a FIFA Women’s World Cup™ qualifiers in a CONCACAF Zone
“The tournament’s entrance adult in Dec and we’ve got a players to make it. It’s all going to come down to a preparations, though. We can win a initial diversion yet a second one’s going to be really tough for us on a earthy level. I’d like to pass my knowledge on to a girls, to tell them how they do things in Argentina, how to watch what they eat, how to respond in certain situations.”

Examples to follow
“They’ve left large in Colombia yet I’d start by holding a demeanour during Costa Rica, who’ve got a veteran league. You’ve also got to make immature players know that they have to try and see themselves personification outward El Salvador. They can get too gentle and yet withdrawal is not easy, it’s not unfit either. You have to dream that it can be done.”

Alejandra on…
Her winning mindset
“My relatives always taught me to mount out, to overcome situations. When we was 19 we motionless to go and investigate and play in Mexico. we didn’t know anyone. That was when we got clever in my mind and my heart.”

The future
“I separate it adult into stages. we wish to be happy during River, initial and foremost, since I’ve got some-more to give. we wish to have a good Libertadores, on an particular and a group level. Then, in terms of a customary of football, I’d like to go to Spain. we can see myself giving it a go there. And if we can make a class there, afterwards I’d try Sweden or France.”

When, where and who
To be hold in Paraguay between 7-21 October, a ninth Women’s Copa Libertadores will be contested by 12 South American teams. They will be divided into 3 groups, with a territory winners and a best second-placed side advancing to a semi-finals. The reigning champions are Sportivo Limpeno of Paraguay.

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Article source: http://www.fifa.com/development/news/y=2017/m=10/news=pioneering-herrera-cherishing-a-libertadores-dream-2910125.html