Brunei ready for ‘high intensity match’ against Maldives, says head coach

James Kon

The nationwide soccer staff is seeking to pull off some surprises within the Tri-Nations worldwide friendlies once they kick off in opposition to Maldives this afternoon at 4pm in Balapan Monitor and Discipline of the Hassanal Bolkiah Nationwide Sports activities Advanced.

The Tri-Nations marketing campaign will see Brunei face Maldives and Laos from September 21-27.

Through the pre-match press convention, newly-appointed Head Coach of the Brunei Darussalam nationwide staff Mario Rivera Campesino stated, “We should attempt to win the match. We’ll attempt to enhance and put up an excellent battle. The gamers are beginning to be extra aggressive and are able to play a excessive depth match.”

He stated whereas the Brunei staff has had health points due to the dearth of matches throughout COVID-19 outbreak prior to now two years, the staff is steadily transferring towards attaining the best health stage and can give their greatest in opposition to Maldives.

Brunei’s captain Hendra Azam added, “There aren’t any extra excuses for dropping on this recreation. Regardless of us being ranked a lot decrease than Maldives (Maldives is ranked 156 in FIFA rating whereas Brunei is ranked 190), I need to win this recreation. Though our preparation just isn’t 100 per cent, we hope to present an excellent match.”

Maldives’ head coach Francesco Morieoro stated, “We’ve got not been coaching for the final two days as a result of lengthy journey to Brunei Darussalam. We’ve got watched some footage of Brunei’s staff and we really feel that Brunei Darussalam is an efficient staff and we have to actually put together ourselves for a troublesome match.”

He added, “We’re at the moment making modifications within the staff. We’ve got introduced a number of younger gamers to the squad and will likely be fielding them to see how properly they’ll carry out. It won’t be a straightforward recreation. “

Maldives captain Akram Abdul Ghanee stated the staff was power to go away out one common participant as a consequence of damage and there are a number of younger gamers within the squad.