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On Wednesday we wrote about the Trinidad & Tobago women's soccer team, which arrived in the U.S. for World Cup qualifying with just about $500 to its name.

Well before practice begins for the United States women’s national team — the world’s No. 1 team — the typically immaculate field is ready for the training session ahead.

The American soccer community, among them T&T ex-patriots, responded in a huge way to cries for assistance from Trinidad and Tobago’s American coach Randy Waldrum for financial assistance for the national women’s team, after they arrived in Dallas on Tuesday night without food and equipment.

Trinidad and Tobago just made it to the United States for the final round of qualifying for the 2015 Women's World Cup, a goal the island nation has never achieved in its 23 years of fielding a women's soccer team.

Several questions were still to be answered as to who was to blame as Raymond Tim Kee, president of the T&T Football Association (T&TFA) tried to explain the plight of the Soca Princesses as they prepare for Concacaf Women’s World Cup qualification in the USA beginning next week.

This country’s Senior Women’s team will depart for Dallas, United States at 3pm on Tuesday for a training camp ahead of the opening CONCACAF Final Round fixture against the United States on October 15th.

Following is a statement released yesterday by the Minsitry of sport regarding the financial assistance being given to the national women’s football team.

SHAMEFUL

JUST OVER month on from being crowned queens of Caribbean football at the inaugural Women’s Caribbean Championship, the local-based core of the Trinidad and Tobago national team (Soca Princesses) remain grounded at home due to the failure of local football’s governing body to raise $40,000, to process visa applications for team members.