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Pleasantville Secondary, the reigning 2025 Girls National Intercol champions, swept aside a weakened St Joseph’s Convent (Port of Spain) team 10-0 at the St Anthony’s College ground yesterday, to advance to the Girls Big Five final.
They will meet Signal Hill Secondary in the final on a date to be determined, in a competition that was due to finish over a month ago.
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Nikita Gosine, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) pick for 2025 Women’s Player of the Year, scored five times for “P-ville” while her sister, Natalia Gosine, got a double and flanker Zara Chase scored three times.
Gosine, in theory, should be in Curaçao right now, where the Trinidad and Tobago team are in the first qualifying phase of their Fifa Women’s U-17 World Cup campaign.
Not for the first time, her absence from international duty is a controversial affair—and, almost certainly, a stressful matter for national head coach Ayana Russell.
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But Pleasantville made the most of her presence yesterday, against the Convent gals who were without six starters.
Star forward Sydney Pollard, goalkeeper Alexia Dolland and defender Mateja Leben are all with the national team in Curaçao while school coach Tasha St Louis, a former international stand-out herself, did not have the services of defenders Khayla Gouveia, attacker Emma Nieves and Xara-Marie Campbell either.
Pleasantville defeated St Joseph’s Convent 2-1 in the 2025 SSFL Super Cup, but were 5-0 winners when they met in the National Intercol semifinal last month.
Dolland is with the National Under-17 Team at present and missed her team’s 10-0 Big Five semifinal loss to Pleasantville yesterday.
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Without the likes of Pollard and Dolland, it was little surprise that they were even less competitive yesterday.
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