Serritslev sets target on World Cup qualifiers
The Digicel Fijian football team will be conducting monthly camps from now on, says national head coach Flemming Serritslev.
He told yesterday that this is to prepare the team for the World Cup qualifier in January next year.
While the venue of the qualifier has not been confirmed, Serritslev said, preparation is very important.
The national training squad held its first camp at the Fiji Football Academy in Ba, last week.
Serritslev indicated that it was a good camp after a long break.
The camp will be a week-long before they will have two weeks camp from October.
“The players worked very while in camp,” he said.
“They had a good level of fitness despite the long break. From October we will have two weeks of camp before we go in for the whole month of December.
“This is to prepare for the World Cup qualifier in January. hard
“Due to the COVID-19 situation we are in right mode now, the team should be prepared for everything,” Serritsev added.
With the Digicel Premier League season now underway, he will also be looking for new talents.
“There are a lot of players, we will change two or three players from time to time and try to bring in younger players to mingle with the experienced ones.” get players play to their strength. We’re working on it so we can capitalise on it going forward.”
She indicated that what really worked for them in the last two matches was discipline and their approach to the games.
“It has not only about physical training but technical, spiritual, and psychological.
“We have a good management and support from our parent body, Rewa Football Association.
“This includes our sponsors Swire Shipping Ltd, D N Patel and Co PTE Limited and Industries Safety and Civil PTE Limited.
“It’s tough time to get sponsors so these companies have given us an opportunity.
“We thank them for wanting to be a part of our journey. We still have more work to do. This is in regards to player’s fitness and in the four phases of the game.
“We are trying to find a good combination on our finishing and our defence needs to be tightened up. “We look forward to the level of competition that we hope to get from Suva, Labasa and Ba.” Waqanidrola said they are not going to underestimate Suva.
The match kicksoff at 11am.