Former Singapore women’s football team midfielder Angeline Chua has been appointed as head coach of the Digicel National Women’s football team.
She was introduced today by the Fiji FA president at the Fiji FA Headquarters in Vatuwaqa.
Patel said Chua will be in charge of all national women’s teams.
“She will be guiding all age groups, national women’s teams, and also the national team to the South Pacific Games,” said Patel
The 34-year-old started coaching when she was a polytechnic student, coaching Arion Football Academy’s U-4 to U-8 age groups.
Chua subsequently became the assistant coach of the Singapore women’s football team’s U-14 and U-16 teams. She would later become the national Under-14 women’s head coach.
In 2021, Chua took up a two-year contract to become Seychelles Football Federation’s director of women’s football and head coach of Seychelles women’s senior national team
She revitalised women’s football in Seychelles, putting together a team that was able to be competitive in the matches played since she took over.
Under her leadership, Seychelles had its first competitive win last year since 2015, by defeating the Maldives in February 2022. She finished her tenure with a record of two wins in eight official games.
She was instrumental in putting the team on the FIFA ranking for the first time in 2022.
Seychelles entered the rankings despite a 6-2 loss to Singapore in a friendly match and is now ranked 165th in the world on the latest FIFA rankings released in December.
