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The Trinidad and Tobago Senior Women’s Team is scheduled to arrive in San Antonio on Monday evening ahead of Thursday’s International Friendly with the United States at the Alamadome.

The T&T team, under head coach Randy Waldrum, left Honolulu, Hawaii at 2pm.

With the game on Sunday being cancelled due to unfit field conditions, Waldrum conducted a session with the players on the beach before the team engaged in some light sight seeing during the evening period.

“We were able to have a session on the beach just to keep the players active with the game being off and then we head over to San Antonio where we will resume the full program in relation to preparing for Thursday’s game,” Waldrum told TTFA Media.

“I think the mood is quite good and everybody is in great anticipation for the game. I think more so than before because of the fact that we didn’t get to take the field on Sunday. We’ll keep focused and go into the game with a lot of anticipation and of course we expect the match to be extremely tough,” he added.

Team manager Sharon O’Brien, who will also travel with the contingent to Natal, Brazil on Friday, said “Everything is in place for our travel. The mood is still quite upbeat and the players were able to get some training in on the beach yesterday which was quite good and enjoyable. Now we’re heading off to San Antonio to continue the preparations.”

Officials said 16,000 tickets were sold for the game in Hawaii and US player Abby Wambach said the U.S. team was disappointed about the cancellation as the scenario continues to be a big talking point

“The reality is we have to be prepared for anything,” said Wambach, “and sometimes it’s making tough decisions and setting up what’s best for the team. Right now, it’s not taking the pitch against Trinidad (and Tobago) on that field.

“We’re sad — it’s our first time here in Hawaii and we wanted to give something to the fans to cheer about. We want them to make them feel part of our world, our culture, so it’s a bummer, but we will come back. We just got to get a better pitch to play on.”

The venue for Thursday’s game also holds an artificial pitch which was installed in September, 2014. The U.S. Women’s team last played there against Australia in 2013 and Australian forward Kyah Simon tore her ACL on a non-contact play.

Following the cancellation of Sunday’s match, U.S. Soccer is already putting a four-team tournament in place next year in Florida with Germany, France and England are being named as the three other FIFA World Ranking Top 5 teams that will join the U.S. in the new tournament ahead of the Rio Olympics. Reports are that Florida will be the location, though venue details as well as team confirmations are still being secured.

“Bringing quality opponents in, that was the priority. To bring good teams to our American public so they can see Germany, France on our soil, and England,” U.S. coach Jill Ellis said Saturday.

Regardless of all that has transpired over the past 48 hours, the T&T Women’s team will keep their goal in sights which is qualifying for the Rio Olympics.

“We have a major tournament to prepare for next year and that has to remain our main priority,” Waldrum said. “We’ve got this game ahead of us on Thursday and then we travel to Brazil to continue the preparations and that’s our main focus at the moment. Our goal is to keep working and building as a team towards to Olympic qualifiers next year.”