Women’s football team heading to New Zealand for 2023 World Cup
VOV.VN - The Vietnamese national women’s football team and head coach Mai Duc Chung departed from Hanoi to New Zealand on July 5 to start their 2023 FIFA World Cup campaign.
The aircraft is scheduled to leave Vietnam at 12:35 p.m. and arrive in New Zealand at 9:00 a.m. on July 6. After landing, the team will then head to Auckland City and stay at the Rydges Hotel, which is only a 10-minute drive to New Zealand’s National Stadium Eden Park.
The team will then have two weeks of training before competing at the biggest sporting event on the planet. They will also have two friendly matches in order to test their lineup, with fixtures scheduled against New Zealand on July 10 and Spain on July 14.
At the FIFA Women’s World Cup, Vietnam have been named in Group E and will face the United States on July 22, Portugal on July 27, and the Netherlands on August 1.