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Monday, June 30, 2025

Defour names women’s Olympic training squad

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Ryan Bachoo
2105 days ago
20190924
Members of Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic training squad pose for a photo at the Home of Football in Couva over the weekend.

Members of Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic training squad pose for a photo at the Home of Football in Couva over the weekend.

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With less than a week to go to the CON­CA­CAF Zone pre­lim­i­nary round Women’s Olympic Tour­na­ment for Tokyo 2020 kick­ing off, T&T women’s head coach Stephan De­four has named a pro­vi­sion­al squad of 29 for a lo­cal train­ing camp.

While vet­er­an play­er Karyn Forbes has al­ready been con­firmed as cap­tain, De­four is ex­pect­ed to an­nounce his fi­nal squad this week­end. The com­pe­ti­tion takes the form of a four-na­tion group phase which will be played at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um from Sep­tem­ber 30 to Oc­to­ber 8.

T&T will take on Aru­ba in the sec­ond match of a dou­ble­head­er in Cou­va from 5 pm on Sep­tem­ber 30. Pri­or to that match, St Kitts and Nevis and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic will meet from 2.30 pm.

Forbes, who is a vet­er­an of the 2015 World Cup qual­i­fy­ing team, has warned her team­mates against com­pla­cen­cy. She said, “No doubt I think we have the po­ten­tial, but at the end of the day we don’t want to un­der­es­ti­mate any team,” Forbes told the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Me­dia.

She said she hoped the new-look team will put in some sol­id per­for­mances dur­ing the week-long com­pe­ti­tion.

“It’s a new squad. At any point in life you have to have tran­si­tion. With some of the new play­ers com­ing in, we’ll be able to utilise them and have some fresh blood and help them (as ex­pe­ri­enced play­ers) to grow.”

While ac­knowl­edg­ing that Olympic qual­i­fi­ca­tion was up for grabs, Forbes al­so felt this was “an op­por­tu­ni­ty to make a state­ment and bring back the fun and bring back peo­ple out to watch women’s foot­ball.”

The To­bag­on­ian al­so spoke about De­four’s im­pact as coach.

“Every coach is dif­fer­ent but Stephan is very se­ri­ous and we need some­one who is se­ri­ous and I’m elat­ed to work un­der him,” she said of De­four, who pre­vi­ous­ly worked with Haiti’s women’s pro­gramme.

The lo­cal ladies had a chance to tour the Home of Foot­ball in Cou­va this past week­end and Forbes said she was hap­py the fa­cil­i­ty was con­ve­nient­ly next to the ground where they’ll be play­ing.

“It’s re­al­ly good, as hav­ing this fa­cil­i­ty will help us a lot. I have been trav­el­ling back and forth be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go. It’s re­al­ly im­por­tant that we have ac­com­mo­da­tion. Every­thing is near in terms of fields and the ho­tel,” she said.

Af­ter tack­ling Aru­ba on Mon­day, T&T will face An­tigua and Bar­bu­da two days lat­er in their sec­ond match. They then play St Kitts and Nevis and wrap up against the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Oc­to­ber 8.

T&T’s pro­vi­sion­al squad:

Agape Alexan­der, Faith Alexan­der, Alex­cia Ali, Shanelle Ar­joon, Syd­ney Bois­selle, Afyi­ah Corn­wall, Khadisha Debe­sette, Malai­ka Dedi­er, Amaya El­lis, Karyn Forbes, Kimi­ka Forbes, Ja­nine Fran­cois, Nathi­fa Hack­shaw, Liana Hinds, Asha James, Re­nasha Jones, Jasan­dra Joseph, Maya Ma­touk, Cay­la Mc Far­lane, Janelle McGee, Tene­sha Palmer, Aaliyah Pas­call, Tori Paul, Aaliyah Prince, Makay­la Prince, Meyah Romeo, Maria-Frances Ser­rant, Lau­relle Theodore, Nia Wal­cott

Match sched­ule with kick-off times:

(Sep­tem­ber 30)

St Kitts & Nevis v Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, 2.30 pm

Aru­ba v T&T, 5pm

(Oc­to­ber 2)

Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic vs Aru­ba, 2.30 pm

T&T v An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, 5 pm

(Oc­to­ber 4)

An­tigua & Bar­bu­da v Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, 2.30 pm

Aru­ba v St Kitts & Nevis, 5 pm

(Oc­to­ber 6)

An­tigua & Bar­bu­da v Aru­ba, 2.30 pm

T&T v St Kitts & Nevis, 5 pm

(Oc­to­ber 8)

St Kitts & Nevis v An­tigua & Bar­bu­da, 2.30 pm

T&T v Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, 5 pm


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