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Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve named a 35-member training squad today as the Women Soca Warriors prepare for an international friendly against Jamaica later this month.
The Jamaica outing will be the team’s sole warm-up match before next month’s opening Concacaf W Qualifiers, and follows a period of close to two years of inactivity.
(via TTFA Media.)
Trinidad and Tobago are grouped with Barbados, Honduras and El Salvador, with only the winners advancing to next year’s Concacaf W Championship.
Eve’s training squad comprises a combination of familiar faces and rising talent with veterans Kennya “YaYa” Cordner, Rhea Belgrave and the Forbes sisters, Kimika and Karyn, alongside roughly half a dozen schoolgirls from the TTFA High Performance Programme.
Bishop Anstey High School East playmaker Orielle Martin, Pleasantville Secondary attacker Nikita Gosine and the St Joseph’s Convent (Port of Spain) duo of forward Sydney Pollard and utility player Kaitlyn Darwent were all summoned.
Former national youth standouts Afiyah Cornwall, Aaliyah Prince and Kayla Prince got the nod as well along with recent TTFA Players of the Year Victoria Swift and Asha James.
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Eve’s training squad:
Goalkeepers: Kimika Forbes, Keri Myers, Malaika Dedier, Tenesha Palmer;
Defenders: Victoria Swift, Rhea Belgrave, Chrissy Mitchell, Nathifa Hackshaw, Jade Bekai, Shaunalee Govia, Tsai-Anne Fernandez, Tamara Smart, Kaitlyn Darwent, Kanika Rodriguez;
Midfielders: Asha James, Orielle Martin, Chelcy Ralph, Cherina Steele, Naomie Guerra, Renee Mike, Karyn Forbes, Mariah Williams, Shurella Mendez, Shenieka Paul;
Photo: TTFA Media.
Attackers: Alexcia Ali, Kennya Cordner, Aaliyah Prince, Nikita Gosine, Afiyah Cornwall, Kayla Prince, Tyeisha Griffith, J’Eleisha Alexander, Jovanah Moreno, Sydney Pollard, Rasheda Archer.
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