Five friendlies for Marie Hourihan’s Plymouth Argyle Women

Plymouth Argyle Women set up five Pre Season Friendlies
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Plymouth Argyle have arranged five pre-season friendlies under new head coach Marie Hourihan, featuring a meeting at Home Park with Wolverhampton Wanderers.

First up for the FA Women’s National League Southern Premier Division side on Sunday 13 July (2pm) is a visit from South West League runners-up Torquay United, before hosting Welsh champions Cardiff City a week later at Manadon Sports Hub (2.30pm).

Wolves, who finished second in the FAWNL Northern Premier, come to Home Park on Sunday 27 July for a 2pm kick-off, Argyle then travel to West Bromwich Albion the following weekend for a behind closed doors fixture.

The Pilgrims end their friendly matches on 10 August, as Southampton U-21s travel to Manadon Sports Hub for a 2.30pm start.

Hourihan recently secured the move to Devon after two years at Stoke City, whom she had brought to Home Park in the FA WNL Cup semi-finals.

The former Republic of Ireland international explained to Argyle TV: “Coming to the stadium, the enormity of Home Park hits you straight away. What a facility. Doing our due diligence on the team as well, there’s a nucleus of players to say that there’s something here.

“The biggest thing was the alignment from the owner, to the board and staff on the ground, of a clear vision for the Women’s team. There’s a real hunger and desire for the team to be at the centre point of the football club.

“It’s an opportunity that I feel is a football club that has got the potential to go wherever it wants to go and the desire to go wherever it wants to go, which is important for me.”

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