T&T’s se­nior women’s team be­gan prepa­ra­tion in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic yes­ter­day with a gym ses­sion, fol­lowed by an on­field work­out at the Fe­lix Sanchez Olympic Sta­di­um, ahead of their up­com­ing in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly match with the hosts on Fri­day.

Head coach Ken­wyne Jones and the home-based play­ers were joined by the ma­jor­i­ty of the over­seas-based play­ers up­on ar­rival on Mon­day for the two-game friend­ly se­ries. The match­es are sched­uled for the Panamer­i­cano Sta­di­um in San Cristo­bal on Fri­day and next Tues­day (No­vem­ber 30)at 6 pm. The last play­er sched­uled to ar­rive is Chris­sy Mitchell.

“To­day we are hav­ing our first on-the-field ses­sion. We got some of the play­ers in at vary­ing times and did a lot of re­cov­ery stuff with them. We had some ac­ti­va­tion ses­sions where we were able to as­sess the play­ers and their phys­i­cal state fol­low­ing their re­spec­tive trav­els,” Jones told TTFA Me­dia on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

“Our re­mit for this camp is cen­tred a lot on pos­ses­sion of the ball, how we move the ball, how we are able to hurt the op­po­si­tion and tight­en­ing all as­pects of our game, de­fen­sive­ly, of­fen­sive­ly… de­fend­ing set pieces, at­tack­ing set-pieces.”

The for­mer Stoke City play­er not­ed that the cur­rent camp came at an ide­al time for him and the staff to as­sess the new play­ers com­ing in­to the squad, this be­ing af­ter the re­cent match­es against Pana­ma which end­ed in two suc­ces­sive draws at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va, last month 0-0 and 1-1.

“We are re­al­ly look­ing for­ward to work­ing with the new faces that have come in. Our es­ti­ma­tion is a lot of them are go­ing to make up the core of the squad, come the next camp as well, while we will al­so be look­ing to add a few more faces to give us the best chance to qual­i­fy and ad­vance in the com­pe­ti­tion,” Jones added.

T&T squad:

Ten­isha Palmer, Naomie Guer­ra, Den­necia Prince, Kimi­ka Forbes, Ken­nya Cord­ner, Col­lette Mor­gan, Karyn Forbes, Tsianne Le­an­der, Rhea Bel­grave, Jaasiel Forde, Maylee At­tin-John­son, Chel­cy Ralph, Aky­la Wal­cott, Rae­nah Camp­bell, Liana Hinds, Kedie John­son, Asha James, Kay­deen Jack, Chel­si Jadoo, Vic­to­ria Swift, Lau­ryn Hutchin­son and Chris­sy Mitchell.