The group of Blue
Francisco Neto (Portugal coach): "It's a pleasure to play against these teams, and I think this tournament is a great opportunity for the whole group to set goals and continue to make progress to narrow our gap with the best"
Philippe Bergeroo (France coach): "The goal is to prepare for the World Cup because it is the best women's football tournament in the world, Portugal is stronger and stronger, they have won twice Switzerland and we have a lot of respect for them "Norio Sasaki (Japan coach):" We have tough opponents, Japan has never won the Algarve Cup and we want to change that this year. "

Nils Nielsen (Denmark coach): "We will do our best in this edition of the Algarve Cup, unfortunately we can not prepare for the World Cup because we will not be there, but it will be important to keep the team in action. "

Group A

Group A (photo FPF)
Silvia Neid (Germany coach): "Playing against top-level opponents is good, the most important is to assess where we are and be ready for the World Cup, we have a few injured players, so we brought a few new players we want to see. "

Vadão (Brazil coach): "The wait for this competition is very important, this is the first time that Brazil participates and this tournament will be important to prepare for the World Cup."

Hao Wei (China coach): "I'm happy to be here again this year, we want to keep improving and I think this Algarve Cup can help us develop our qualities."

Pia Sundhage (Sweden coach): "I'd like to see offensive football with a lot of technical teams, and hopefully we'll be better off in the end."

Group B

Group B (FPF photo)
Jill Ellis (USA coach): "We're very happy to be coming back here, we've been training for six weeks and it's important to play this competition Hope Solo brings an experience, even though our three goalies have quality We are in a construction process and we want to maximize our strengths. "

Freyr Alexandersson (Iceland coach): "We are looking forward to starting the competition, we will do our best and we want to prepare the new generation of our team."

Even Pellerud (Norway coach): "It's great to be here, because we still need to improve a lot because we're not in shape, but we want to progress with these world-class teams."

Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (Switzerland coach): "We are in a group with very strong teams, we have some new players and we want to see them in the face of some very valuable opponents, we are happy to be here. we were in qualifying for the World Cup and now we want to go step by step, it's a long way, but we have room for improvement. "

Source: fpf.fr