Dreams broken, but tightest calls yet to be made as Pauw shows early World Cup hand | emmaduffy_
IN ALL, THERE were no major surprises as Vera Pauw named her World Cup training squad this afternoon.
The Dutch coach must whittle the numbers down to 23 players and three travelling reserves before she announces her final World Cup squad on 29 June. The majority of their respective absences were owing to injury, and they’ll all be hoping to take their opportunities to stake a claim.Others can count themselves unlucky: Jessie Stapleton, Izzy Atkinson, Niamh Farrelly, Roma McLaughlin, Claire Walsh and Alannah McEvoy have all been involved in recent months, with Shamrock Rovers returnee Savannah McCarthy a regular starter before her ACL injury.
“It’s devastating. I’m very much aware I have broken dreams and it will have an impact on careers also. We’ve not been taking this lightly as I say all the time. Every single player was on the table every single day. It’s elite sport. You have to make choices. “I wish I could bring them all. We can’t. So believe it or not, with all the clubs and everybody on Monday, I had to make more than 75 phone calls.
Lucy Quinn was referenced as “proof” of that policy. The Birmingham City attacker was a late call-up for April’s friendlies against the USA, where she went from the standby list to Player of the Match, with her club form drastically improving thereafter.To use a phrase well-worn by the Ireland manager, now it’s time to dot the i’s and cross the t’s.
“That’s extremely important,” Pauw noted, “because if you miss your home for six weeks and then into a World Cup for what will hopefully be a long time, you cannot cope with that and they are not used to that.
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