Mexican coach Azair expects a great projection for his players at WWCH

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, September 2 2014 - Mexican Women’s head coach, Jorge Azair expects that the World Championship in Italy will be a great learning experience and also a big stage for projection of his players.

“If they show a good performance, they can be considered for American Universities or European Teams,” Azair remarked during training camp held at the Mexican Olympic Committee facilities.

Mexico will compete as part of Pool C in Italy, against teams like Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Russia, The United States and Thailand. All of those teams have a world championship record and bigger experience as well as height and age average.

However, Azair has plenty of confidence in his squad teamwork and fight spirit as qualities. “They have to be creative at the World stage,” the coach said. “We have been playing and working hard since March, and also participated at the Pan American Cup as well as the World Championship last Qualifying Round, the Grand Prix and we are in a pre-competitive phase.”

To be in great physical shape and improving tactical aspects are part of the immediate goals during this training camp before departing to Slovenia, where they will have another camp prior to the World Championship.

Mexico has and age average of 23 years and a 1.86 meters height average.

“We know some of our rivals, like Kazakhstan, because we played against them at the World Grand Prix, and Thailand is also a very strong team, but phyisically similar to us,” He added.

“I thing these two matches can be the key ones to win for us. We are in a very tough and complicated pool.”