JAKARTA - The U-17 Indonesian national team will appear in the 2025 U-17 Asian Cup Qualification in October 2024.
Currently, Garuda Muda is undergoing a training camp (TC) in Bali with head coach Nova Arianto.
In the early weeks of TC, Nova Arianto galvanized his team with physical training. The coach wants the players' physical abilities to be evenly distributed before playing in qualifying.
The Indonesian U-17 physical training menu is fairly heavy, four times a day. However, Garuda Muda employees really enjoyed it.
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One of these things was revealed by Zahaby Gholy. Physical training arenas held in several places make players not bored. In fact, they are very enthusiastic about eating the training material.
"Alhamdulillah, I am very happy and enjoy it. Morning and evening training coupled with practice on the field and night at the gym," said Gholy.
"The exercises on the beach sand are my first experience. So, it was quite difficult. Earlier on the beach, practicing lifting the weight of my own friends which was balanced," he said again.
The 2024 AFF U-16 Cup Best Player further revealed that he is very confident that Indonesia U-17 can qualify for the 2025 U-17 Asian Cup finals.
This confidence arose after seeing Garuda Muda's thorough preparations. In addition to holding a TC in Indonesia, Indonesia U-17 is also scheduled for a training camp to Spain before appearing in qualifying.
Not only that, the atmosphere in the Indonesia U-17 training camp also made the players excited.
They compete healthy competing to show their best performance during TC in order to be selected to join the team.
"The competition is quite heavy with new players. However, we will compete healthy. I am optimistic that we can join the team," he said.
"I hope, with this heavy exercise, we can be better prepared to face the U-17 Asian Cup Qualification. Hopefully we can get the best results for everything," said Gholy.
Meanwhile, the 2025 U-17 Asian Cup Qualification will be held in Kuwait on 19-27 October 2024. Indonesia U-17 is in Group G with Australia, Kuwait, and the North Mariana Islands.
In the 2025 U-17 Asian Cup Qualification round, there will be 10 group winners and the five best runners-up will advance to the final round with the host Saudi Arabia which will be held on April 3-20, 2025.
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