The 22-mem­ber women's se­nior na­tion­al team cur­rent­ly in train­ing for the sec­ond in­ter­con­ti­nen­tal Fi­fa Women's World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion play­off home leg fix­ture will be trimmed to 20 play­ers to­day. The fi­nal squad to face Ecuador on Tues­day will then be made pub­lic ei­ther tonight or to­mor­row morn­ing. Head coach Randy Wal­drum con­firmed this yes­ter­day. The play­ers were giv­en a day off yes­ter­day, ahead of to­day's "shut down" when play­ers will not be per­mit­ted vis­i­tors or al­lowed out of camp. The last play­er to touch down was start­ing goal­keep­er Kimi­ka Forbes, who ar­rived in T&T from the US on Thurs­day night. Her sis­ter, Karyn, as well as Rhea Bel­grave and Bri­an­na Ryce all ar­rived a night be­fore from the re­spec­tive US col­leges.

They are on a Thanks­giv­ing break and will like­ly re­turn to school on Wednes­day. First team reg­u­lar, Liana Hinds was un­for­tu­nate­ly un­able to make the trip be­cause of fi­nal ex­ams at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, while back-up goal­keep­er Ten­isha Palmer is re­cov­er­ing with a leg in­jury. A few play­ers have made their way in the squad, most no­tably in the form of un­capped mid­field pair, sis­ters Nia and Ami­ra Wal­cott, who were al­so wel­comed to train with the na­tion­al Un­der-17 team four years ago, but failed to make the fi­nal team for the Fi­fa Women's Un­der- 17 World Cup, host­ed here that year. Re­spond­ing to queries on their in­clu­sion, Wal­drum sug­gest­ed that they were in­vit­ed fol­low­ing ad­vice of his sup­port staff. "As coach, I'll al­ways be look­ing at tal­ent that can help our na­tion­al teams," he said, adding, "I have a great net­work of coach­es around the world and in the USA as do our oth­er staff coach­es." "It's through rec­om­men­da­tions, video, etcetera, that we find these play­ers. That's how these play­ers came to be in­vit­ed in­to camp," Wal­drum ex­plained.

The play­ers cur­rent­ly train­ing at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um are Baron, Ryce, Bel­grave, the Forbes sis­ters (Kimi­ka and Karyn), the Wal­cott sis­ters (Nia and Ami­ra), Ken­nya Cord­ner, Maylee At­tin John­son, Ayan­na Rus­sell, Patrice Su­perville, Ah­keela Mol­lon, Mari­ah Shade, Ja­nine Fran­cois, Arin King, Khadisha Debe­sette, Kha­didra Debe­sette, Tasha St Louis, Anique Walk­er, Der­nelle Mas­call, Jas­mine Samp­son and Lau­ryn Hutchin­son. Mean­while, on the op­po­site end, the Ecuador team is ex­pect­ed to ar­rive at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port to­day at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4.30 pm. The South Amer­i­cans will then make their way down to the Court­yard by Mar­riott Ho­tel, In­vaders Bay, where they will camp for the du­ra­tion of their stay. They will train at field out­side of the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, to­mor­row, from 10 am, and again on Mon­day from 6 pm.