Road to Uruguay 2018 starts in Oceania

• Oceania gets U-17 Women’s World Cup gift underway
• Samoa hosting eight-team OFC U-16 Women’s Championship
  
• New Zealand aiming for fifth unbroken U-17 Women’s finals

Less than 10 months after Korea DPR degraded Japan on penalties in Jordan to win their second FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, gift is about to embark for a 2018 book of a tournament. Kicking us off on a highway to Uruguay, a initial South American horde of a U-17 Women’s World Cup, 8 teams from Oceania are set to contest for one berth during a 16-team finals.

Held in Samoa, a OFC U-16 Women’s Championship sees dual groups of four, with a tip dual in any organisation surpassing to a semi-finals, contest for one sheet to Uruguay in Nov of subsequent year. The continental tournament, that takes place from 4 to 18 August, will act as a initial genuine step for many of a immature talents in Oceania competing on a general stage.

FIFA.com looks brazen to a arriving movement in Samoa.

The groups
Group A: New Zealand, Samoa, New Caledonia, Tahiti
Group B: Fiji, Cook Islands, Tonga, America Samoa

And we’re off…. ✈️ See ya shortly Samoa #OFCU16W @NZ_Football @CapFootball @OFCfootball pic.twitter.com/wnj2dlyrWG

— Emma Evans (@emma_evans7) August 2, 2017

The numbers
1 Samoan collateral Apia is a solitary venue of a OFC U-16 Women’s Championship and will play horde to all 15 of a tournament’s matches. This is a initial time Samoa has hosted a foe after New Zealand (2010 2012) and Cook Islands (2016).

2 Two countries will make their OFC U-16 Women’s Championship debuts this year: American Samoa and Tahiti. Both will be fervent to exam themselves on a continental stage. Were they to qualify, it would be American Samoa’s initial coming during a FIFA tournament.

3 Three nations have enclosed players from July’s OFC U-19 Women’s Championship in New Zealand in their U-16 squads: Samoa, New Caledonia and Tonga. Samoa and New Caledonia will advantage from a knowledge of Vineta Faleaana and Marie-Laure Palene respectively, while Tonga exaggerate several players who were in New Zealand, including Nipa Talasinga and Seini Lutu, who played pivotal roles even during a aloft age bracket.

4 New Zealand are a usually group to have represented Oceania during a FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, carrying done 4 appearances during a tournament. The Young Football Ferns have won a U-16 OFC Women’s Championship on all 3 occasions and hosted a initial U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2008. After their U-19 Women’s Championship triumph, a U-16 side will no doubt wish to continue their winning ways.

7 Led by Argentinian conduct manager Guillermo Schiltenwolf, hosts Samoa have 7 members of their patrol personification for clubs outward of Oceania – a many of any group during a foe – all of whom play in USA, with 3 of them featuring for teams from Hawaii (namely Bulls, Hawaii Rush and Hawaii Surf).

What they said
“The ultimate idea is to emanate destiny Football Ferns and we am assured that we have a peculiarity in this patrol that in time they have a ability to go on and paint a Ferns. This contest is another step in their growth and a possibility to uncover their ability.”
New Zealand manager Leon Birnie

“I am so vehement and looking brazen to a contest in Samoa, and there are 6 girls in a U-19 who will join me in Samoa that we am also looking brazen to.”
Tonga midfielder Carmel Uhila

FINAL SQUADS | Eight nations have reliable their immature member #OFCU16W https://t.co/4saPNV8YwM

— OFC Oceania Football (@OFCfootball) July 31, 2017

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/development/news/y=2017/m=8/news=road-to-uruguay-2018-begins-in-oceania-2902728.html