Football Women's World Cup 2011 / Equatorial Guinea

This article is about the Equatorial Guinean national soccer team at the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany. In March 2011, Equatorial Guinea achieved its best position to date with 61st place in the FIFA world rankings, but was still the weakest World Cup participant. Equatorial Guinea took part in a World Cup for the first time. The greatest success to date is winning the 2008 African Football Championship for women . Equatorial Guinea had only played 26 internationals before the World Cup, the first in 2002. With the exception of Nigeria , Equatorial Guinea had never played against any of the other World Cup participants and - with the exception of a preparation match against Luxembourg - never outside of Africa. Equatorial Guinea is the smallest country (approx. 28,000 km²) that has ever participated in a women's world championship and also has the lowest population (651,000) of all previous participants. It replaces Taiwan (1991 participant) as the smallest and New Zealand as the most populous participating country.

qualification

Equatorial Guinea qualified for the finals by beating hosts South Africa in the semi-finals of the 2010 African Cup of Nations. The final was lost against the also qualified record champions Nigeria . The most successful goalscorer for Equatorial Guinea was Simpore Salimata with 3 goals, two of which she scored in the semi-finals against South Africa. After qualifying, Ghana and South Africa charged that Equatorial Guinea had used men in the tournament.

The way to the World Cup

qualification

 Namibia - Equatorial Guinea 1: 5, then withdrawal of Namibia 

African Championship

The championship took place in South Africa in October and November 2010 with eight teams split into two groups . In the group stage, each team played once against the other three teams in the group.

Group stage

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Equatorial Guinea	6: 3	7th
2	Cameroon	6: 4	7th
3	Ghana	4: 6	3
4th	Algeria	2: 5	0

November 2, 2010 in Benoni
Equatorial Guinea	-	Cameroon	2: 2 (2: 1)
November 5, 2010 in Benoni
Equatorial Guinea	-	Algeria	1: 0 (1: 0)
November 8, 2010 in Benoni
Ghana	-	Equatorial Guinea	1: 3 (1: 1)

Semifinals

November 11, 2010 in Benoni

Equatorial Guinea

-

South Africa

3: 1 (0: 0, 0: 0) n.v.

Squad for the World Cup

Most of the players play in Equatorial Guinea, with one player each in Germany, Nigeria, Spain and South Korea. The players have an average height of 166 cm, with Sinforosa being the smallest at 161 cm and the second goalkeeper Yao the tallest at 174 cm. 16-year-old Christelle is the youngest player at the World Cup. Jade Boho was banned by FIFA for two months, Emiliana was nominated again .

No.	Player	Date of birth	society	International matches	International goals	World Cup 2011
						Games	Gates
goal
1	Miriam	02/25/1982	Sao Francisco	12	00	3	0	0	0	0
13	Yao	07/02/1979	Princesses Yennenga	09	00	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Maria Rosa	05/05/1992	Inter Continental	06th	00	0	0	0	0	0
Defense
2	Bruna	05/12/1984	Real Dona	12	00	3	0	1	0	0
3	Dulcia	01/18/1982	CEUNESP	07th	00	3	0	1	0	0
4th	Carolina	02/18/1983	Estrellas del Sur	12	03	3	0	0	0	0
21st	Laetitia	04/07/1987	E Waiso Ipola	06th	00	3	0	0	0	0
midfield
5	Ana Cristina	12/12/1985	Palmeiras	08th	01	3	0	1	0	0
6th	Vania	11/9/1980	Hyundai Steel	06th	00	3	0	0	0	0
9	Dorine	11/28/1988	E Waiso Ipola	16	09	3	0	0	0	0
10	Añonma	04/19/1989	FF USV Jena	32	18th	3	2	1	0	0
11	Natalia	09/05/1986	Inter Continental	17th	01	0	0	0	0	0
12	Sinforosa	04/26/1994	E Waiso Ipola	17th	06th	2	0	1	0	0
14th	Jumaria	05/08/1979	Inter Continental	16	01	3	0	0	0	0
15th	Chinasa	12/08/1987	Rivers Angels	19th	09	2	0	0	0	0
16	Lucrecia	October 24, 1988	E Waiso Ipola	06th	01	0	0	0	0	0
20th	Christelle	01/16/1995	E Waiso Ipola	09	02	1	0	0	0	0
attack
7th	Diala	December 8, 1989	0without a contract	20th	04th	3	0	1	0	0
8th	Emiliana	December 4th, 1991	E Waiso Ipola	00	00	0	0	0	0	0
17th	Adriana	04/16/1983	Ouro Branco Esporte Clube	07th	07th	3	0	0	0	0
19th	Fatoumata	03/27/1994	Inter Continental	04th	01	0	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Marcelo Frigerio	01/30/1971
Remarks: ↑ a b Data according to the squad list of the FIFA archive link ( memento from June 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) after the game against Brazil. However, according to FIFA statistics [1] , Equatorial Guinea has only played 29 full internationals. For Añonma 32 games are given. ↑ Subsequent nomination for the suspended Jade Boho

preparation

In April 2011, Equatorial Guinea played two qualifying games for the London Olympics against Cameroon and qualified for the next round against Nigeria.

date	place	opponent	Result
April 2, 2011	Yaoundé ( Cameroon )	Cameroon	0-0
April 17, 2011	Malabo	Cameroon	2: 0 (1: 0)
June 18, 2011	Hostert ( Luxembourg )	Luxembourg	8: 0 (4: 0)

Group games

In the first game of Group D, World Cup newcomers Equatorial Guinea met ex world champions Norway in their first competitive game outside Africa and their first competitive game against a non-African team . The favored Norwegians started furiously, Haavi hit the post in the second minute . Other opportunities soon followed, but they did not lead to a goal either. After a quarter of an hour, the newcomer to the World Cup made the game more open and had many good chances, which, however, also lacked precision. In particular , Añonma , who plays for Jena in the Bundesliga, repeatedly presented the Norwegians with problems, only when it came to the conclusion it was a problem. The Northern Europeans were also overweight at the beginning of the second half and only after 20 minutes did the Africans get better into the game. When they started to have calf cramps , it seemed as if Norway were in better condition, but an open blow exchange continued with chances on both sides. Haavi, the youngest player on the field, used one of these chances to score a 1-0 winner for Norway in the 84th minute. After that, the Africans tried to equalize, but the more experienced Norwegians brought the narrow lead over time.

In their second game, the Africans met Asian champions Australia for the first time . From the start, Australia put the World Cup newcomer under pressure and in the 8th minute Leena Khamis was able to dust off when goalkeeper Miriam could not hold the ball. In the ensuing period Australia pushed for the 2-0, and the Africans were lucky that the Hungarian referee Gyöngyi Gaál failed to see Bruna picking up a ball that had ricocheted off the post in the 16th minute . The 1-1 equalizer came as a complete surprise when Genoveva Añonma was able to take the ball from Australian defender Servet Uzunlar and play the Australian goalkeeper. In the second half, the Africans quickly fell 3-1 behind with goals from Emily van Egmond (48th) and Lisa De Vanna (51st). After that Australia administered the game and the game of the World Cup newcomer became "Nigerian"; the Africans, who had only committed three fouls against Norway, received three yellow cards . It was not until the 70th minute that Equatorial Guinea had another chance to score when Añonma penetrated the Australian penalty area and finished the goal. The Australian goalkeeper was able to deflect the ball to the corner - but the referee did not give it. Shortly before the end it got exciting again when Añonma again took the ball from Uzunlar and scored the 2: 3 goal. Australia then achieved this result over time. With Norway losing to Brazil, Equatorial Guinea now had no chance of making it to the quarter-finals, even if they had won their last group game against runners-up Brazil .

At the first meeting with Brazil, the Africans were able to avoid a deficit until the 49th minute, as Bruna made the Guido against world footballer Marta and followed her every step - even when Marta tried to talk to her coach - which made her visibly annoyed. Then Érika scored the 1-0 with a fine individual performance, the 2-0 followed in the 54th minute by Cristiane after preparatory work by Marta. When Marta was fouled in the penalty area in the final minute, Cristiane converted the penalty. With this defeat, the newcomer was eliminated from bottom of the group without winning points.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	7-0	9
2	Australia	5: 4	6th
3	Norway	2: 5	3
4th	Equatorial Guinea	2: 7	0

Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 3 p.m. in Augsburg
Norway	-	Equatorial Guinea	1: 0 (0: 0)
Sunday, July 3, 2011, 2 p.m. in Bochum
Australia	-	Equatorial Guinea	3: 2 (1: 1)
Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 6:00 p.m. in Frankfurt
Equatorial Guinea	-	Brazil	0: 3 (0: 0)

Awards

Genoveva Añonma was chosen as the only African player in the All-Star Team.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Match Report Equatorial Guinea - Nigeria (with squad) (PDF; 310 kB)
2. ↑ Match Report Equatorial Guinea - South Africa (PDF; 309 kB)
3. ↑ http://www.sportschau.de/sp/fifawm2011/mannschaften/aequatorialguinea_/aequatorialguinea.jsp
4. ↑ PDF at www.fifa.com
5. ↑ spiegel.de: Fifa bans the national player of Equatorial Guinea
6. ↑ The team from Equatorial Guinea was later disqualified because they had used the player Jade Boho , who had previously played for Spain, in the qualifying games. [2]
7. ↑ FIFA.com: Marta suffers from "paranoia"
8. ↑ FIFA.com: Double Honor for Sawa, July 18, 2011, accessed May 20, 2017