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The Basque Women’s National Team will play against Chile with Juanjo Arregi as coach

From left to right: Arregi, new selector; BeaBermejo and Juan Mari Lopez Lacalle (directors); Ángel Gurrutxaga (president of the Union of Basque Federations); President Javier Landeta; Elena Ferreira, Director of Communication of the Deputation of Álava; and Livia Lopez, mayor of Vitoria. / fvf

Juanma Mallo

Euskal Selekzioa female has a new coach. He is Juanjo Arregi (Urnieta, 1964), with a past at Real Sociedad, Añorga KKE and Urnieta KE, and also a coach in the lower categories of the tricolor (Under-18 and Under-12). He replaces, in this way, Iñigo Juaristi, now in the ranks of Deportivo Alavés in the F League. And the debut of this coach from Gipuzkoa will take place on December 20, Tuesday, in Mendizorroza (7:00 p.m.). «We announce this match against Chile with all the enthusiasm in the world and we hope that Basque society receives it in the same way that we do. We will cheer on our women’s team with all our might,” Javier Landeta, president of the Basque Football Federation, launched on Wednesday.

The women’s tricolor returns to play a Christmas duel and to shoot after the matches played in April 2021 against Venezuela and Argentina in a triangular game organized in Zubieta. And in less than fifteen days it will be measured against a squad that appears in 38th place in the FIFA ranking, one of the largest groups, the fourth in Conmembol behind Brazil, Colombia and Argentina and in the playoffs to play the World Cup next summer. «We have always maintained that in order to organize a Euskal Selekzioa match, three conditions had to be met: having a first-rate field, being able to compete against a great team and having the best possible team. Well, after a long time we have managed to have these three conditions in our favor, “Landeta explained at the start of the meeting.

The party, on the other hand, will serve to continue taking steps in the claim. «I think that to achieve official status we have to play in many fields. Well, it’s up to us and us in this one that we present today. We want an official Euskal Selekzioa and it will be our way of claiming it”, estimated the president of the Basque Football Federation.

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