Alexia Kammenou emphasized that the goal of the women’s national polo team is to be distinguished at the Olympic Games in Athens, she believes that without stress the team performs well in all competitions, she asked for continuous hard work and considers the final phase of the World Cup as a good preparation for the Fukuoka World Championships.
Analytically: “We have a huge journey ahead of us, a very difficult year, from now until next summer. With many obligations at many important stations, namely the big events (Super Final World Cup, World and European championships), which I hope will culminate in Paris and the 2024 Olympics.
We proved in today’s game against Spain that, when we are not stressed, we can perform very well. As I told the girls, with hard training we will get better and better. In Long Beach it will be a huge opportunity to prepare with the best teams in the world ahead of the World Championships in Fukuoka and be ready there.
I want us to claim all the opportunities that will be given to us. We have to get into that process. May we always be ready to achieve our big goals. Let’s have a duration and a plan. The most important thing about this team is that they never give up. The two matches we lost, we lost them on penalties.”
Elena Xenakis added: “It was the second game for us this three days that was decided on penalties and, unfortunately, we didn’t get the victory in this either. For us, it is still the beginning, as for all teams, however, our big goal, which was to go to the final stage of the World Cup, has been achieved.
Nevertheless, now the hardest work for the National team begins. We want to come out as strong as possible at all the big events of the summer. The new rules give a faster game than we are used to. This is good for us because we are a young team with a lot of energy and I think we have that.
However, since we are a new team, we will have to ‘bond’ with each other, the assembly should be done correctly and we should be the right ones at the big dates in the summer”.
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