U-17 World Cup: PSSI Appoints Bima Sakti as U-17 Indonesian National Team Coach

– Chairman of the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI), Erick Thohir appointed Bima Sakti as the coach of the Indonesian National Team (U-17 National Team) in the 2023 U-17 World Cup.

Erick reasoned that the appointment of Bima as a trainer was to provide opportunities for young coaches.

“We think we’ll give him a chance coach Bima, yes we need coach-coach young. In management coach Shin Tae-Yong exists coach Nova and coach-coach new. Indra Sjafri’s management at the SEA Games was a lot coach young. This I think is positive, so we’ll give it to coach Bima Sakti,” Erick explained during a press conference at the Danareksa Tower, Central Jakarta, Saturday (24/6/2023) afternoon.

Erick said that Bima would likely be assisted by a co-coach to prepare the Indonesian national team for the U-17 World Cup.

“Later we will definitely discuss it at the Exco, maybe there will be a companion, because this is a world championship. We will discuss whoever the companion will be,” he added.

In addition, Erick said, the selection process for the Indonesian national team players was carried out seriously, both from the U-16 and U-17 national teams. This selection process was also carried out in 9 regions of Indonesia.

“We also have to prepare the U-16 and U-17 national teams seriously, so we will make plans to select the U-16 and U-17 in 9 regions so that after we can map out we will combine them later in July (2023). ” he said.

Erick said that after mapping the national team players, PSSI would conduct training camps at home and abroad in August-October 2023.

“We hope there can be a number of good preparatory matches with countries from Europe, Asia, Africa, of course, so they won’t be surprised when they prepare for the U-17 world championship later,” Erick added.

It is known that Indonesia has been officially appointed by FIFA to host the U-17 World Cup. The world football body announced this through its social media, Friday (23/4/2023). Previously the U-17 World Cup was scheduled to be held in Peru. However, FIFA revoked Peru’s status as host because it was deemed unprepared.

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