Tashkent, July 12 -- The Indian U20 women's team have arrived here to play two friendly matches against Uzbekistan U20.
The first of them will be played July 13, at the Do'stlik Stadium at 20:30 IST.
The Young Tigresses, who had been training at the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence in Bengaluru, landed in the Uzbek capital on Friday morning and had a gym session in the evening. This evening, they had their official training session before the first game.
India are using these friendly games to prepare for the AFC U20 Women's Asian Cup Qualifiers next month, where they will face Indonesia, Turkmenistan and hosts Myanmar.
Head coach Joakim Alexandersson said, "We wanted to face a strong opponent to get an idea of what awaits...