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Trinidad and Tobago’s France 2019 World Cup qualifying hopes ended on Sunday as Mexico kept its hopes alive of reaching the semifinals of the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship by recording a 4-1 Group A victory at Sahlen’s Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Senior Women will start their final round CONCACAF Women’s Championship campaign against Panama with a Group A match at Sahlen’s Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park at 5 p.m. on Thursday.

T&T’s women foot­ballers face an up­hill task to come away with max­i­mum points when they take on Mex­i­co in game two of the CON­CA­CAF Women’s Cham­pi­onships on Sun­day from 5.30 pm.

T&T's se­nior women's foot­ball team will be joined by three play­ers in the likes of-of cen­tral de­fend­er Rhea Bel­grave, strik­er Kay­la Tay­lor and de­fen­sive mid­field­er Ayana Rus­sell in a day or so, as the team fine tunes its prepa­ra­tions for its open­ing match of the CON­CA­CAF Women's Cham­pi­onships against Pana­ma to­mor­row at the Sahlen's Sta­di­um in Car­ry in Unit­ed States.

Thurs­day's 3-0 vic­to­ry by Pana­ma over T&T's women foot­ballers at the CON­CA­CAF Women's Cham­pi­onships did not come as a sur­prise to many which in­clud­ed for­mer na­tion­al play­er and coach An­gus Eve, con­sid­er­ing the tur­moil the sport has been in, and the is­sues the women faced.

In spite of on­go­ing con­cerns with the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, the coun­try's Women's foot­ball team will com­mence its de­par­ture to­day for the Con­ca­caf Women's Cham­pi­onship in the Unit­ed States which is a qual­i­fi­er for the FI­FA Women's World Cup in France next year.

T&T's se­nior women's team will face an up­hill task to qual­i­fy for the next Women's World Cup af­ter go­ing down 3-0 to Pana­ma in its Pool B open­er of the CON­CA­CAF Women's Cham­pi­on­ship at the Sahlen's Sta­di­um in Cary, North Car­oli­na, USA, last night.

It is ex­pect­ed that a num­ber of con­cerns which were raised by some mem­bers of the board of di­rec­tors of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) will be ad­dressed to­day at a meet­ing called by its pres­i­dent David John-Williams at the Home of Foot­ball, Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va at 4 pm to fa­cil­i­ates To­ba­go's rep­re­sen­ta­tive.