Scotland Women 'inspired' By Men Reaching World Cup

International friendly: Scotland v Ukraine

Venue: Estadio Municipal de Chapin, Jerez Date: Friday, 28 November Kick-off: 11:00 GMT

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Scotland qualifying for their first men's World Cup successful 28 years has "inspired" nan women to do nan aforesaid for nan 2027 finals, says caput coach Melissa Andreatta.

Steve Clarke's men will beryllium astatine adjacent summer's tourney successful nan United States, Canada and Mexico aft they dramatically defeated Denmark past week astatine Hampden.

The women kick-off their qualifying run successful March for nan arena successful Brazil 12 months later and are presently successful Spain for 2 final friendlies - against Ukraine connected Friday and China adjacent Tuesday - earlier attraction turns to their qualifying group pinch Belgium, Israel and Luxembourg.

The women's nationalist squad are looking to extremity their ain awesome tourney drought aft missing nan past 3 since their quality astatine nan 2019 World Cup.

Andreatta was astatine nan nationalist stadium to acquisition "one of nan champion shot experiences of my life" past week and nan Australian admits her broadside are "running disconnected nan precocious of that experience".

"They don't really request immoderate other motivation, they're very motivated, but they're inspired for sure, seeing their antheral counterparts doing what they've done," she told BBC Scotland.

"When that first extremity went in, conscionable for illustration everyone else, I was conscionable grabbing onto everyone, screaming because it was for illustration Scott McTominay was floating successful nan aerial erstwhile he struck that first goal.

"What a measurement to commencement and past to spell connected and triumph 4-2 pinch nan goals that we scored and nan mode successful which it each played out, it was fantastic.

"We're 1 nation, we're Scotland, 2 teams. What a measurement it would beryllium to spell and do this - nan first clip that some teams are successful their respective World Cups if we get nan business done.

"The players person talked astir it a lot, wanting to beryllium connected nan world stage, returning to awesome tournaments. The men person done that now and nan women want to do that too. It's true, nary Scotland, nary party."

Andreatta picked up her first triumph arsenic caput coach successful past month's friendly triumph complete Morocco pursuing an entertaining 4-3 defeat by Euro quarter-finalists Switzerland.

She admitted she was "super pleased" pinch nan capacity against nan in-form Swiss and is keen to support progressing.

"With these 2 internationals, it's again being exposed to 2 different teams," she explained.

"We've seen similarities betwixt Ukraine and Luxembourg and Belgium and China. I deliberation utilizing this acquisition to hole for those windows adjacent twelvemonth will beryllium bully for us, but besides conscionable having clip together.

"This is still only my 3rd model and conscionable having this clip together successful 1 location is ace important for some players and staff."