JAKARTA - PSSI General Chairperson (Ketum), Erick Thohir, will pay more attention to women's soccer in the country. One of the efforts made is planning the women's soccer league in 2026.
The choice of time became Erick Thohir's reference because he admitted that he needed time to get the talent of the players.
The trick is to develop grassroots first by building the U-17 Indonesian Women's National Team and women's soccer competition for the 10 to 12 year age group which is still focused on Java Island.
"That (women's league) will be 2026. Grassroot and the national team are just running, the league is running. Who is playing?" Erick Thohir said in a statement quoted on Monday, May 13, 2024.
Erick Thohir then gave a comparison in the formation of the women's and men's national team as an example.
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He said that Shin Tae-yong built the Indonesian national team from the lowest foundation. Meanwhile, the coach of the Indonesian Women's National Team, namely Satoru Mochizuki, is far below him.
"If netizens say coach Shin Tae-yong (builds the men's national team) from the lowest foundation. Mochi's coach is from minus below," he said.
According to Erick Thohir, building the Indonesian Women's National Team and the women's league will obviously take a while. Even so, he did not turn a blind eye that there were already several examples of Indonesian women's soccer players who had careers abroad.
"So, it takes time, but we shouldn't even say, well, we have no hope in the girls, we can't. There are already examples, some of our female players play abroad."
"It's just that, so far we have made fun of women's football, it's never been built like today," said Erick.
"Coach Mochi has brought Japan (the national team) to the World Cup and won, also to the Olympics. So, we will build two strata. One, the U-17 group, and the second is seniors above the U-17," he said.
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