India U-16 national football team head coach Bibiano Fernandes feels that his side can atleast reach the quarterfinals of the 2020 AFC U-16 Championship after qualifying for it. The Indian Colts topped Group B in the qualification phase. Bibiano feels that his side is prepared for the continental showpiece which will be held in Bahrain next year.Video courtesy: All India Football Federation (AIFF)
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00:00 I'm really happy with the performance the boys have put up and I'm really happy for
00:06 the boys because we have been working so hard from February.
00:10 Looking at this round and looking at the performance of the boys in this qualifiers, I feel we
00:18 have a chance to reach quarter-finals definitely and the level of the boys and the character
00:25 and what they showed in this qualifiers is amazing and I feel definitely these boys after
00:34 one year preparation, definitely these boys will come up to that level and definitely
00:42 these boys can reach quarter-finals.
00:45 All of us knew that it would be really difficult, we had to just defend well 100% whenever there
00:51 were danger attacks coming and we knew if we had to just hold Uzbekistan we could get
00:58 a goal and when we played matches we had so many goals so I knew one or two opportunities
01:06 we can score.
01:07 I knew Uzbekistan after that goal they would put pressure and we had to just keep up defending
01:14 calm and cool and one mistake they are also a good team and they are capable of scoring
01:21 goals so I knew one mistake could cost us so we had to just focus on defending, how
01:27 we can anticipate the long balls and start playing our normal game.
01:31 We always tell them what will be the scenario for the match, the crowd, the noise, how Uzbekistan
01:39 is going to approach this match and all that but credit goes to the boys, they keep their
01:45 heads cool and perform to the level what we are supposed to do, they did it simple and
01:54 credit goes to the boys.
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