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Clare pointed out the rollout of the courses supports the vision within the current Irish
Football Association women’s football strategy of growing the game and maximising impact.
This year more than 90 new female coaches from over 40 clubs throughout Northern
Ireland have been upskilled by completing female-only NCC courses, she added.
Gail Redmond, the Irish FA Foundation’s development manager for women’s football, is
delighted with the uptake on the courses.
She said: “We have set high targets to grow the game in our country and I am pleased to say
that we are on target not just to have 24 new female coaches per year but to double the amount of
female NCC coaches by 2024.”
Meanwhile, the Northern Ireland FA has announced that all tickets for the Northern
Ireland senior women’s team’s match against North Macedonia in Belfast later this month have
been sold.
The ‘sold out’ sign has gone up less than two weeks after tickets went on sale for the FIFA
Women’s World Cup 2023 qualifier at Crusaders’ Seaview stadium on Monday 29th November
(7pm start).
The game at Seaview is set to be staged four days after Kenny Shiels’ side take on North
Macedonia in Skopje.
(irishfa.com)
UEFA Women’s Champions League
Arsenal and Chelsea have put themselves on the brink of
qualifying for the quarter finals with victories in their respective
group matches this week.
On Wednesday night, Arsenal played their return match
against HB Koge at Meadow Park, looking for a repeat of their 5-1
victory against the Danish side seven days earlier.
The Gunners got off to a great start and took the lead
through Caitlin Foord with sixteen minutes on the clock. Beth
Mead then got the ball in the net on the stroke of half time, but her
effort was ruled out for a marginal offside decision. Koge continued to sit back and frustrated Arsenal
on a number of occasions and it wasn’t until the final seven minutes when they were finally able to
make the pressure tell.
First, Lotte Wubben-Moy rose highest to head in from a Mead corner and as the game headed
towards injury time, Vivianne Miedema, on as a second half substitute, slotted home the third from
Steph Catley’s through ball.
Barcelona meanwhile confirmed
themselves as the first team to qualify for the GROUP A P W D L F A Pts GD
last eight, the holders easing to a comfortable CHELSEA 4 3 1 0 13 4 10 14
5-0 victory at Hoffenheim. JUVENTUS 4 2 1 1 8 4 7 5
Chelsea meanwhile consolidated VFL WOLFSBURG 4 1 2 1 10 7 5 10
their position at the top of Group A by beating SERVETTE FCCF 4 0 0 4 0 16 0 1
Servette FCCF 1-0 at Kingsmeadow. This GROUP B P W D L F A Pts
time it was harder for Chelsea to break down PARIS SAINT GERMAIN 4 4 0 0 13 0 12
the visiting defence, who were determined to REAL MADRID 4 2 0 2 6 6 6
avoid a repeat of the seven-goal hammering WFC KHARKIV 4 1 1 2 2 6 4
nine days earlier. The only goal came midway BREIDABLIK 4 0 1 3 0 9 1
GROUP C P W D L F A Pts
through the second half, when Sam Kerr FC BARCELONA 4 4 0 0 15 1 12
latched onto Fran Kirby’s pass and held off ARSENAL 4 3 0 1 13 5 9 4
her marker before firing home. The match
HOFFENHEIM 4 1 0 3 5 13 3 -2
was also notable for Maren Mjelde’s first start HB KOGE 4 0 0 4 1 15 0 4
since her serious injury in the Continental GROUP D P W D L F A Pts -3
Cup Final in March. OLYMPIQUE LYONNAIS 4 3 0 1 10 2 9 -4
Victory for Juventus at VfL BAYERN MUNICH 4 2 1 1 6 2 7 -9
Wolfsburg means that Chelsea must wait in SL BENFICA 4 1 1 2 2 7 4 -10
order to confirm their place in the last eight. BK HACKEN 4 1 0 3 2 9 3 -10
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