Local soccer team to get Brazilian influence
Three of Brazil’s top female soccer stars will be in Surf City next
week, giving their expertise to one lucky local girls soccer team.
The North Huntington Beach Futbol Club Under-14 team, consisting of
players from throughout Orange County, will hold a practice on Tuesday,
Dec. 7, at Mile Square Park that will feature the instruction of Brazil’s
top two strikers, Roseli and Pretinha, as well as that country’s top
female coach, Helena Pacheco.
Pacheco is the head coach of C.R. Vasco de Gama, Brazil’s reigning
women’s national champion.
Pacheco is scheduled to lead all the players through a one-hour training
session based around a typical practice day for her professional club,
Vasco de Gama.
Roseli has represented Brazil in every major international competition
since the 1991 Women’s World Cup. She is regarded as the world’s most
skillful striker, but is just returning from a knee injury suffered early
in the 1999 season.
Pretinha, who first played for the Brazilian National Team at the age of
16, has appeared in three World Cups, was the leading scorer for Brazil
at the 1996 Olympic Games, and currently is the leading scorer on the
World All-Star Team.
The pair is representing Brazil, which finished in third-place at the
1999 Women’s World Cup, on the World All-Star team, which currently is
playing the US National Team in a series of indoor soccer exhibitions
throughout the nation.
The “Victory Tour” is a 12-city exhibition tour featuring matches between
the US National Team and a World All-Star squad comprised of players from
Brazil, Canada, Australia, Norway, China, Mexico, Sweden, and Nigeria.
The World All-Star Team holds a 4-2 edge in games won, with six games
remaining to be played in December.
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