Head coach Remo Stars Ladies Wemimo Matthew has backed her newly promoted side to spring upset in their debut campaign of the 2023/24 NWFL as they gear up to host Rivers Angels later today at their home ground.
Remo Stars Ladies is a newly formulated club who gained promotion last season through the championship play-offs and they will be looking to stake a claim for themselves this season.
“This is the first they will be participating in the NWFL and I believe the girls are going to do well concerning thier performance, they are ready to give thier best,” Coach Wemimo stated.
“Just like the way they did in Edo at the just concluded Betsy Obaseki’s Cup,. Everyone saw it, out of thirteen teams, we are able to come out fourth”.
“We took fourth which signifies a good start for us and people were surprised about the way we played in Benin and with the hope I have for the girls and thier determination, they are ready to do even more better during the league which I know that they are capable of doing”, she added.
On managing the players – “It’s all about coaching and it’s my job, I have been doing it and I believe I can still do it. We have been able to manage them to this extent from the beginning starting from the quality training they are in need of technically, mentally and tactically”.
“One thing that is so special about the team is discipline which is the foremost of what I cherish because when you are disciplined as a player, you will be able to adapt to whatever the training, system regime is as demanded by the coaches”.
“It’s a new team where these players are picked from different clubs and from academies, premier league sides bringing them together and for them to begin to play together as a team, it requires patience to build a team of understanding”.
“We will try and fast-track somethings so that they can be able to give thier best just like the way they did in Benin. I was so impressed with the games they played for the first time playing against the big teams and they were ready to do it, they won some and lost some which is a good”.
On their group – “We are in the toughest group and everyone’s is looking at how Remo Stars will survive in the team and group. If you look at that group, it’s only Remo Stars Ladies and Ekiti Queens that have never been in the Premiership”.
“Sunshine went to relegation but they have been there ever since and they are used to it but I can assure that we will do our best, we are going to do our best, the game of football is either you lose or win, draw, it’s a league both home and away”.
“I can assure you, the girls are ready, super ready to tell the world that they can do it. Game after games, the team work will improve but as at now, we are not scared of anybody, I am not scared because I have been in the league not now”.
“The girls response to training, thier determination and readiness to the league, I can see it in them that they are not afraid of anybody, they just want to go to the field and play the game against thier opponent”.
“It’s 11 v 11 and they are ready to play and they are ready to give thier best”, she concluded.
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