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Re: 2023 Women's League A Gold Cup Qualifier Thread
« Reply #30 on: November 03, 2023, 11:33:49 AM »
I don’t get it. Satisfied for earning 1 out of 6pts vs Puerto Rico? Sounds like Haiti’s last coach who was happy for a 1-0 loss to England.
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Re: 2023 Women's League A Gold Cup Qualifier Thread
« Reply #31 on: November 04, 2023, 04:21:13 PM »

Just like you Toussaint I thought the same thing,it seems that everybody is happy with 1 point out of 6.

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Re: 2023 Women's League A Gold Cup Qualifier Thread
« Reply #32 on: November 28, 2023, 03:53:41 PM »
Trinidad and Tobago provisional squad named for women's Gold Cup qualifier.
By Roneil Walcott (T&T Newsday).


Trinidad and Tobago women's football team coach Richard Hood has named a 29-member provisional squad for the Concacaf women's Gold Cup qualifier versus Mexico at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo on December 5.

Trinidad and Tobago currently sit at the foot of the three-team League A group with a solitary point, with Mexico (six points) and Puerto Rico (four points) in first and second spots respectively.

The top team in each of the three League A groups will qualify for the group stage of the February-March 2024 Concacaf women’s Gold Cup tournament – the first-ever staging of the competition.

The three runners-up in the League A groups will play the three winners of the respective League B groups for a spot in the Gold Cup group stage.

With the solitary group game left against Mexico, T&T's chances of qualifying for the Gold Cup are thin, as they must defeat the group leaders and also hope for the Mexicans to defeat Puerto Rico by a big margin in their penultimate match on Friday. T&T's goal differential is -7, while Puerto Rico's goal difference is zero.

Hood pointed to "incremental improvements" after T&T's last match away to Puerto Rico on October 31.

The Trinidad and Tobago women got their first point in the qualifiers with a gutsy performance in a goalless stalemate. Rookie Trinidad and Tobago goalkeeper Simone Eligon was rewarded for her fine display in the two matches against Puerto Rico last month, as she was named to the Concacaf Nations League A Best XI for the October window.

Eligon, 23, is one of four goalkeepers named in Hood's provisional squad.

The squad is led by veteran and team captain Karyn Forbes and includes attackers such as Asha James and Maria-Frances Serrant. Hood has also included the schoolgirl trio of J'Eleisha Alexander, Orielle Martin and her namesake Talia Martin.

Both Alexander and Talia Martin are members of the Scarborough Secondary team which advanced to this year's Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Big 5 final and claimed the Tobago girls' intercol title. Scarborough will play Five Rivers in the Big 5 final on Thursday in Black Rock, Tobago.

Club Sando star forward Alexcia Ali, the scorer of T&T's only goal in the qualifiers thus far, has been ruled out of the upcoming match, as she has been suspended.

Hood and T&T will be hoping for better fortunes versus Mexico in the second group meeting between the teams, as the Mexicans stormed to a resounding 6-0 win in Pachuca in September.

T&T's clash with Mexico will be preceded by a League B, group C match-up between St Vincent and Grenadines and Barbados from 4 pm.

T&T's game will kick off at 7 pm.

T&T's provisional Squad:

Goalkeepers:

Malika Dedier, Simone Eligon, K'lil Keshwar, Akyla Walcott.

Defenders:

Jonelle Cato, Tamara Johnson, Shauna Lee Govia, Chrissy Mitchell, Crystal Molineaux, Abbigail Moos, Lorall Romain, Victoria Swift, Christa Waterman, Britney Williams.

Midfielders:

Arie Bhagan, Sarah De Gannes, Karyn Forbes, Naomie Guerra, Zoe Maxwell, Renee Mike, Chelcy Ralph, Cherina Steele.

Forwards:

J'Eleisha Alexander, Asha James, Tsaianne Leander, Orielle Martin, Talia Martin, Tori Paul, Maria-Frances Serrant.

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Re: 2023 Women's League A Gold Cup Qualifier Thread
« Reply #33 on: December 01, 2023, 03:04:23 PM »
Captain Karyn Forbes: We need you - Women Warriors call for support against Mexico
By Ian Prescott (T&T Express)


Head coach Richard Hood expects to put out probably his strongest team yet in the Tuesday night’s CONCACAF League A match, a qualifier for the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup, and captain Karyn Forbes is appealing for mass Trinidad and Tobago support when facing regional giants Mexico.

T&T host the Mexicans in their final match of the group phase on Tuesday night from 7 p.m. at the Hasely Crawford Stadium. Preceding the feature match will be a CONCACAF League B encounter between St Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados from 4 p.m.

“I am urging you to come out to the Hasely Crawford Stadium on the fifth of December. We will be taking on Mexico in our Gold Cup qualifying game,” captain Karyn Forbes said, “We need your support.”

“I urge you to come out to the game to see us the women national team play against Mexico,” stated Serrant. “Come and have a time and come and show your passion for the sport and for us.”

T&T began the series with a humbling 6-0 defeat at high altitude away to Mexico, but showed improvement over their next two matches, a 2-1 home defeat to Puerto Rico, before holding the Puerto Ricans goalless in Bayamon four days later.

“I’m feeling good about the prospect of playing Mexico again,” stated Hood.

He added: “It’s probably our strongest team that we’ve had throughout the tournament, despite the fact that we are going to be without one or two players,” Hood stated.

With wins over T&T and Puerto Rico, Mexico (six points) lead the series, followed by Puerto Rico (four points) and T&T (one point). With just a single point from three matches, T&T’s chances of qualifying for the Gold Cup are dependent on Mexico defeating Puerto Rico substantially tonight, and losing to T&T on Tuesday.

“Whether we qualify or not right, everything is dependent on what Mexico does against Puerto Rico. - if they beat Puerto Rico by six, seven goals (and) if we manage to defeat Mexico,“ Hood explained. “But if that doesn’t happen, still, we want to finish the tournament positively.”

Hood will be without suspended Club Sando winger Alexcia Ali and England-born right back Christa Waterman due to card issues, while France-based Kedie Johnson is still injured. Still, he has about 12 players coming in from overseas, some like winger Tori Paul, who is rejoining the programme.

“We want to go out and give a good performance and demonstrate the improvement that we have (made) within the programme at the moment. Hopefully that will prepare the rest of the programme going forward.”

“We want to see where we are today, as opposed to where we were when the campaign started. We expect to see a lot of improvements in performances in terms of organisation, ecetera.”

Hood currently has 29 players in a residential camp, but also lamented the earlier absence of some players due to work-related and other personal issues.

“I have to say that I have been a bit frustrated with the preparation so far from the point of view that we have had a number of absentees over the past weeks,” he disclosed. “I have not been able to do the work I would have liked to do,” Hood added.

Finally, the coach felt that it was important to see continued improvement within his team in order for others to be encouraged to join the programme.

“Going forward, hopefully we can continue training, continue building the local group, continue finding new players outside so that we can rebuild the team,” Hood said. “This has been the idea, you know, to get the woman programme back to where it was, and perhaps taking it even further.”

T&T’s provisional squad:

Goalkeepers: Malika Dedier, Simone Eligon, K’lil Keshwar, Akyla Walcott.

Defenders: Jonelle Warrick-Cato, Tamara Johnson, Shauna Lee Govia, Chrissy Mitchell, Crystal Molineaux, Abbigail Moos, Lorall Romain, Victoria Swift, Christa Waterman, Britney Williams.

Midfielders: Arie Bhagan, Sarah De Gannes, Karyn Forbes, Naomie Guerra, Zoe Maxwell, Renee Mike, Chelcy Ralph, Cherina Steele.

Forwards: J’Eleisha Alexander, Asha James, Tsaianne Leander, Orielle Martin, Talia Martin, Tori Paul, Maria-Frances Serrant.
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Re: 2023 Women's League A Gold Cup Qualifier Thread
« Reply #34 on: December 05, 2023, 12:40:03 AM »
Hood: One way or the other, we will beat Mexico.
By Walter Alibey (T&T Guardian).


"One way or the other, we are going to try and win this game against Mexico," national women's football coach Richard Hood assured, yesterday.

The two teams clash tonight at 7 pm at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo, Port-of-Spain in the final match in Group 'A' of the Concacaf Women's Gold Cup Qualifiers.

The Mexicans hammered T&T 6-0 in the first meeting between the teams on September 26 and now lead the group with nine points from three wins in as many matches.

Puerto Rico holds on to second on the standings with four points with a win (2-1) and a tie (0-0) against the Women Warriors. The local team is at the bottom of the chart on a point from three matches. However, T&T has a slim chance of overtaking the Puerto Ricans on goal difference if they can beat the Mexicans by five clear goals.

Hood believes they can but highlighted several issues his team has been plagued by during their preparations, including not having access to train at the Stadium, despite it being their home game tonight.

"Well, I really don't know how that becomes an advantage for us. It's an advantage from the point of view that we're not playing 8,000 feet high altitude, but the national stadium is our home base but we don't train there," said Hood, yesterday.

"We have not trained there, so the pitch is not an advantage for us, it might be some sort of advantage if we have support from our fans or whatever, but it's not really an advantage playing at the Hasely Crawford Stadium. We have not had the advantage of training at the stadium. The stadium has been rented out for school football and other things, other activities, but the national team does not have access to it.

"We have not touched that pitch since the Puerto Rico games," Hood explained. Those matches were played in late October (October 27 and October 31).

Besides that, Hood's preparation was also paralysed by the late arrival of most of his foreign-based stars who make up some 90 percent of the starting team tonight.

The top two teams will qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, a position that appeared relatively attainable at the start, but Hood's inability to secure his key players abroad in time during training sessions worked against him.

"I am never really satisfied with our preparation, it's a bit of a difficult situation given that quite a number of players who will be starting the game do not reside in T&T, therefore we only had a short opportunity to work with them. This camp was a five-day camp, that was the best we could have done under the circumstances," said the national coach.

"It's always sort of difficult to get yourself organised the way you would like, which is five days or seven sessions. To add to that, a couple of players only came in yesterday, so basically they would have only done yesterday's session and the half session that we have today (yesterday), so you know we have to work around those challenges."

Hood also explained: "We have done the work, so I think it's really up to the players to go and interpret the work we would have done and see how best they can execute it on the pitch."

From the outlook, today's requested five-goal win for the Women's Warriors will provide a major challenge, however, Hood promised they will take a positive approach against the Mexicans, as they try to counter their attacking power while mounting serious attacks of their own to get the required result.

T&T Team:

Goalkeepers:

Simone Eligon, Malaika Dedier, K'Lil Keshwar

Defenders:

Shauna Lee Giovia, Britney Williams, Crystal Mollineaux, Tamara Johnson, Jonelle Cato, Victoria Swift, Abbigail Moos, Chrissy Mitchell

Midfielders:

Chelcy Ralph, Naomie Guerra, Renee Mike, Zoe Maxwell, Karyn Forbes, Sarah De Gannes

Forwards:

Orielle Martin, Asha James, J'Eleisha Alexander, Tori Paul, Tsaianne Leander, Maria-Frances Serrant

GROUP A

Pos*Team*M*P*W*D*L*Gf*Ga*GD*Pts
1*Mexico*3*3*0*0*11*1*10*9
2*Puerto Rico*4*1*1*2*3*6*-3*4
3*T&T*3*0*1*2*1*8*-7*1

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Tough task for Women Warriors in final Gold Cup qualifier vs Mexico.
By Roneil Walcott (T&T Newsday).


As his Trinidad and Tobago women’s football team face an improbable task against Mexico in their final Concacaf women’s Gold Cup qualifier at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo, on Tuesday, head coach Richard Hood is calling for more support for the locally based players in the programme.

T&T must defeat Mexico by four goals if they are to advance to the preliminary round of the inaugural 2024 Women’s Gold Cup. T&T currently sit at the foot of the three-team League A group with one point. Mexico lead the group with a 100 percent record from their three matches and have rattled in 11 goals in the process. Puerto Rico are in second spot in the group on four points and have a goal difference of -3. The cellar-placed T&T team have a -7 goal difference following two defeats and a draw.

Hood’s team now face the unenviable task of defeating a Mexico team that handed them a 6-0 defeat in their opening group match on September 26 in Pachuca.

“At the best of times, it is a difficult task to beat Mexico, much less to beat them by about four clear goals,” Hood told the media on Monday. “For me, it is not necessarily a realistic possibility, but it is a possibility. “We are going to approach the game positively and we are going to try and get a victory. We are asking the girls to be as brave as possible and execute what we have done in training and hopefully, we will get the result we are looking for.”

Hood described the first Mexico outing as a “baptism of fire.” He has since pointed to “incremental improvements” from the Women Warriors. With T&T scoring just one goal in their first three matches – via the suspended Alexcia Ali – managing a four-goal win against the 36th-ranked Mexico team will take something extraordinary or miraculous. T&T are ranked 75th by Fifa. “We have to follow the game plan. When we have the possibility of attacking, we have to commit. When we are defending as well, the transition moments are going to be critical offensively and defensively.”

Hood expects to see a different women’s team against Mexico this time around, as he says this is the strongest unit he has had for the campaign. “I expect the organisation to be better than our first game against Mexico. I would like to see improvements in the fitness levels as well. “We will not be playing at 8,000 feet altitude this time. That was a factor in the first game. I would like to see more composure and our ability to move the ball offensively and the ability to move and operate collectively as an offensive and defensive unit.”

Hood is looking towards the future with his T&T team, and says the schoolgirl pair of J’Eleisha Alexander and Orielle Martin are likely to see minutes depending on the game situation. Alexander, 16, and Martin, 15, were voted among the Secondary Schools Football League’s (SSFL) top five girls players for the 2022 season. Alexander won the MVP award. As he looks beyond this ongoing campaign, Hood says more exposure needs to be given to the local players.

“For this programme to progress, we have to maintain a local base. We have to train continuously to improve the players we have locally.

“We have to make use of the Fifa windows. We could start small by playing Guyana or Grenada and we go from there. Again, we are seeing tremendous improvements in the local players in a very short time. It is critical for us to continue that development as we go forward.”

The top team in each of the three League A groups will qualify for the group stage of the February-March 2024 Concacaf Women’s Gold Cup tournament. The three runners-up in the League A groups will play the three winners of the respective League B groups for a spot in the Gold Cup group stage.

Kick-off is at 7 pm.

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Re: 2023 Women's League A Gold Cup Qualifier Thread
« Reply #36 on: December 06, 2023, 05:05:44 AM »
Women Warriors go under 1-0 to Mexico; fail to qualify for 2024 W Gold Cup.
By Ian Prescott (T&T Express).


MEXICO women were never likely to concede the handful of goals which Trinidad and Tobago’s senior women footballers needed to advance to the playoff round of the 2024 W Gold Cup.

And last night, Mexico completed their CONCACAF Nations League A series with a 1-0 win over a defensively solid T&T, breaking the stalemate courtesy on a superb Cristina Ferral goal at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.

The Women Warriors only threatened the Mexican’s goal twice, striker Maria Serrant shooting powerfully, but wide in the 71st minute after using her speed to outpace her marker. And in stoppage time Serrant also made a decent effort at goal, only to see her shot drop on top of the net.

Mexico completed the four-match series as group winners and with a maximum 12 points from a pair of wins over T&T (6-1 & 1-0) and Puerto Rico (2-1 & 3-0). Puerto Rico finished second on four points, their 2-1 win over T&T in Port of Spain providing decisive, with T&T third with a single point, earned last month in a draw away to Puerto Rico.

Earlier last night, St Vincent and the Grenadine defeated Barbados 4-2 in a League B qualifier at the HCS. Meanwhile, T&T did relatively well keeping the Mexicans quiet in the first half, until Ferral smashed the eventual match winner.

With defensive leader Victoria Swift on the sidelines injured, after putting in an earlier desperate tackle, Mexico capitalised, when a corner kick was played to the end of the penalty area, Ferral was there to fire home at the far post, giving Simone Eligon, the England-born T&T goalkeeper no chance to stop the ball.

Eligon had to be at her best at least twice, denying Kiana Palacios from extending the visitors’ lead in the second half. And when Jacqueline Ovalle chested down a corner kick at the edge of the penalty and shot to the far post, Eligon got an important hand to parry and turn it wide.

Mexico head coach Pedro Lopez took the opportunity to bench a few of his starters, but was not reckless enough to leave out his star player Stephanie Mayor, who was largely kept quiet and looked frustrated when turning a shot off in the 75th minute.

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Re: 2023 Women's League A Gold Cup Qualifier Thread
« Reply #37 on: December 06, 2023, 08:15:49 AM »
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Hood: One way or the other, we will beat Mexico.

This kaka hole coach talking up he ass, T&T only had 2 shots whole game vs Mexico and they needed to win.



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Re: 2023 Women's League A Gold Cup Qualifier Thread
« Reply #38 on: December 07, 2023, 09:53:52 AM »
FIFA should make some football matches with a HANDICAP imposed on teams when there is no chance of the other team winning,for example Mex vs TT,i sugest,make the Mexico goal bigger. ;D

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Re: 2023 Women's League A Gold Cup Qualifier Thread
« Reply #39 on: December 07, 2023, 01:11:05 PM »
Coach Hood happy despite loss, exit
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National women's football coach Richard Hood is generally happy with the effort of his team, despite a 1-0 loss to giants Mexico at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo, Port-of-Spain on Tuesday night that ended their chances of sealing a place at the Concacaf Women's Gold Cup.

T&T's "Women Warriors" were hammered 6-0 in the first meeting between the teams in September, however, the goal-fest that was expected on Tuesday night never happened.

The Women Warriors, in need of a clear four-goal win, were expected to be ultra offensive in the encounter, but instead were forced to defend stoutly against a raging Mexican attack. The result meant that the Mexicans topped Group A with 12 points, while the Puerto Rican took the second-place qualifying berth with four points.

The Women Warriors remained on just one point in the campaign, having lost to the Mexicans twice 6-0 and 1-0, and lost and drew with Puerto Rico 2-1 and 0-0, respectively. At the post-match press conference on Tuesday, Hood expressed mixed feelings.

"It was a big improvement and it was something we have been asking from the ladies, that they go out and demonstrate the progress they have made during the campaign. I think that every game we have improved and they demonstrated that tremendously last night," Hood said.

"For me, I was a bit disappointed in how we played from the point that we struggled to keep hold of the ball, we didn't really have much possession and we didn't really stretch ourselves offensively. But I was very happy with the defensive effort, the shape and the organisation and to me, that's the big takeaway. The Mexicans had difficulty in breaking us down and I was really happy about that."

Hood and his charges got a surprise visit from Minister of Sports and Community Development Shamfa Cudjoe-Lewis, who promised to lend her assistance to the women's programme. This programme lacked overall support up to the point where players were not committed to the preparation of Tuesday's match.

"Before I made my post-match comments to the girls, the Minister of Sports came to greet them and I told her that what we need moving forward is investment in the women's programme and she promised a certain amount of equipment to assist the programme. So we look forward to that," said Hood.

"We have to continue, we have to keep training, we have to keep building the local pool, we have to keep building the local programme. I said to them, it must never be a position where we turn to what we met when we came into this programme in July. For me, we want to take a bit of a break for Christmas and we're going to have meetings with the technical director the director of women's football and the general secretary of the T&T Football Association to plan the way forward.

"I would want to get the players back on to the pitch as early as January and really what we need to do now is to play as many international games as possible every FIFA window. We can start small, against our Caribbean neighbours. We saw St Vincent and Barbados played last night. These are the teams we need to start building the programme against, and learn how to win games, rather than we go up against tougher opposition like Mexico, of which we are nowhere close to that kind of quality to face that kind of opposition.

"It's about rebuilding the programme and continuing to rebuild the programme."

He sees promise for the team's future, saying: "Last evening, we saw two 16-year-olds take to the pitch and I thought they did really well. That's the way we're looking to go, expose as many players as possible, get them playing international football and that's going to take us back on the right track of where we want to be."

Hood was referring to youngsters J'Eleisha Alexander and Orielle Martin, who were inserted late in the match.
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Re: 2023 Women's League A Gold Cup Qualifier Thread
« Reply #40 on: December 07, 2023, 03:47:39 PM »
Trinidad and Tobago women's Gold Cup dream ends, Hood appeals for continuity.
By Roneil Walcott (T&T Newsday).


Trinidad and Tobago's campaign in the 2024 Concacaf women's Gold Cup qualifiers came to an end on Tuesday night, as the host team fell 1-0 to group winners Mexico at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo. T&T finished at the bottom of the three-team League A group with a solitary point after losing three of their four matches.

Mexico ended the group with a perfect 12 points and booked their spot in the Gold Cup. Puerto Rico finished second on four points and will advance to the Gold Cup preliminary round.

T&T gave a much-improved effort from the 6-0 loss they suffered away to Mexico in Pachuca in September, but a gem of a long-range effort by defender Cristina Ferral settled the match in the 40th minute and broke the stubborn resistance of the hosts.

Needing an unlikely four-goal win to book a spot in the Gold Cup prelims, T&T showed their intent from the opening whistle as coach Richard Hood sought to get on the front foot with a 4-4-2 formation which saw the pair of Asha James and Tsaianne Leander starting in attack. Hood asked his team to be braver in possession, and they did string passes together in the early stages. However, the Mexicans quickly assumed control of the game as they looked for the opening item.

The centre-back pairing of Shaunalee Govia and Victoria Swift were solid for T&T as the hosts were pushed back into a low block. Zoe Maxwell was composed in possession in the middle of the park and goalkeeper Simone Eligon was again impressive between the uprights with several fine saves.

Overall, Hood was pleased with his team's improved defensive showing.

"I was satisfied with the efforts from the team and satisfied with the organisation. I am not so much satisfied with the offensive part, as I thought we struggled to keep the ball," Hood said in the post-match briefing.

"I am happy with the performance and the effort from the younger girls. I thought the real purpose for me in this game was to keep demonstrating the improvements (we have made), and I think we did that."

With the T&T defence holding firm in the first half, Mexico were reduced to shots from long range. However, they could not quite find their radar early as efforts by Jimena Lopez and attacker Jacqueline Ovalle went over Eligon's goal. Ovalle tried to catch the T&T custodian napping with a cheeky free kick in the 31st minute, but her left-footed attempt drifted just wide of the post.

The 23-year-old Eligon, who was named to the Concacaf League A Best XI for the October window, commanded her area as she plucked a number of dangerous crosses out of the air. However, just before halftime, Ferral beat the T&T goalie with a ferocious long-range drive which whistled into the top corner.

"Simone has been magnificent. She has come up big for us in each of the (three) games she has played. She was a little nervous in her first game against Puerto Rico but that is understandable. International football is a completely different kettle of fish."

In the second half, Eligon made at least two jaw-dropping saves. She made a brilliant stop to deny an effort by Kiana Palacios in the 49th minute, while her personal battle with Ovalle continued in the 63rd minute as the T&T goalie stretched low to her left to push a firm drive wide of the post.

"Our understanding of the tactical requirements of the game — offensively and defensively — was good. I thought we did a really good job of nullifying the Mexicans' attack quite a bit."

In attack, T&T mustered just three shots in the game, two of which came from the boot of the tireless Maria-Frances Serrant. In the 90th minute, Serrant got the T&T supporters hopeful as her miscued shot from outside the area went agonisingly shy of goalkeeper Itzel Gonzalez's bar. It was the closest T&T came to troubling the Mexican goalie.

"We were not great offensively, but it is a work in progress. It is something we have to keep continuously working on with the girls. It is important for us to maintain continuity where the local girls are concerned and we have to monitor those who are abroad as well."

Hood said support is on its way to the Women Warriors, and he was reassured of such by Minister of Sport and Community Development Shamfa Cudjoe-Lewis, who visited the team in the locker room after the encounter.

"Minister Cudjoe-Lewis indicated the ministry is very much willing to back the women's programme to the same level of monetary (contributions) from Concacaf. She asked us to make proposals and we are going to do that. It is critical for the women's programme."

Hood said it is imperative for the TT Football Association (TTFA) to ensure the programme does not go dormant like it has in the past, as it is the "beginning of the project." He said preparations cannot solely begin two months before a major regional tournament. He said, "We must never get back to the level where we met the programme when we started in July this year."

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