Talented women in National Team

Photo: Peter Besemer

If you look at the physical facts of the Dutch Youth team under 21 and you make a comparison with the physical facts of the woman of the National Team, than you can conclude:

The women of the National Youth Team under 21 are a bit less athletic than the woman of the National Team.

The young girls of the Dutch team are smaller than the women of the national team:
There is a difference in average body length of 7 cm. ( 1.715 - 1. 78)
(We did not count the height of the tallest woman of the national Team in this average. She is 1.98 m.)

The young women have more body weight. (67.1 kg - 66kg)

The reach height of the young woman is on the average 8 cm difference (2.22m – 2.30m) and the jump height is almost the same difference: (2.71m - 2.80m)

The women talents will not change in height, weight and in reach with jump...(I expect.)
However I don’t use their names in the article I will give some remarks about my expectations for their future.
I use for this, my definition of roles: Tiger; Bear; Wolf and Panther. Roles are based on physical and mental skills.

There are 3 women who are very talented. I expect that they can play in 1 or 2 years as a player of the National Team.

a. The tallest girl (1.80m) is a good attacker (Panther). She is a very good runner with a large action radius. She can also play as a Wolf. Very important for her is to learn to read her opponents. She plays too much on intuition. Her fighting spirit is outstanding.

b. The best talent is only 1.74m. But she can play as Tiger, Panther and Wolf. She is really very promising. Her character is a bit introvert. She needs to communicate more to her teammates.

c. The girl who is 1.73 is still doing top korfball light hearted. Sometimes you can call this attitude playful. She is really skilful: can run and jump, can attack, and can defend.
when she wants to reach the top then she should develop a mentality of a fighter. She promised to be a Panther and Wolf. But if she can change her attitude then every coach can use her as well as a Tiger.