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Monday, March 3, 2025

Jones wants some­thing dif­fer­ent

Women footballers to leave Monday for friendlies against D/Republic

by

Walter Alibey
1199 days ago
20211119
National senior interim women's coach Kenwyne Jones give instructions to members of the senior team during a training session at the Ato Boldon Satdium in Couva, last month. The local team is expected to leave on Monday for Dominican Republic for two friendly matches.

National senior interim women's coach Kenwyne Jones give instructions to members of the senior team during a training session at the Ato Boldon Satdium in Couva, last month. The local team is expected to leave on Monday for Dominican Republic for two friendly matches.

Courtesy TTFA

Na­tion­al in­ter­im women's coach Ken­wyne Jones will lead the se­nior team in­to ac­tion in two in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly match­es against the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on No­vem­ber 26 and 30, in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

Coach Jones, whose con­tract is ex­pect­ed to ex­pire on the day of the sec­ond match, told Guardian Me­dia Sports yes­ter­day that he wants to see some­thing dif­fer­ent from what he saw against the Pana­man­ian na­tion­al team last month.

Jones steered the women's team to two im­pres­sive­ly drawn re­sults 0-0 and 1-1 against the Pana­ma­ni­ans at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va, al­though the team had not played a com­pet­i­tive match in al­most two years.

His team will be with­out a few key play­ers but Jones who said the team had the ca­pa­bil­i­ty to qual­i­fy for the 2023 FI­FA World Cup, said: "We're go­ing to the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic to play them in two games. We are card­ed to leave on Mon­day and we play them in two match­es, one on the 26 and one on the 30.

"At this point in time, I don't think the team will ever be at full strength, we're still scout­ing some play­ers. There are still some play­ers that we want to come in­to the squad. As we know, based on their sit­u­a­tion with the col­leges and of course, there are some play­ers we're seek­ing to go through the process to get pass­ports for them, but we have a scout­ing net­work that has been work­ing quite fe­ro­cious­ly.

"Since I've been there so far we have man­aged to find quite a few play­ers, so with that, we're try­ing to get them in the squad."

The for­mer na­tion­al strik­er who has had a stint in­ter­na­tion­al­ly with Stoke City in Eng­land did not say who will be brought in­to the squad but said he hoped they will be brought in very soon. He came in as an in­ter­im coach fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of Amer­i­can Con­stan­tine Kon­stin who ini­tial­ly re­placed Welsh­man James who al­so re­signed on Oc­to­ber 6 to take up an of­fer in the UK.

Jones has said he want­ed the full-time coach­ing job for the women's team, as he be­lieved the play­ers were loaded with tal­ent that on­ly need­ed nur­tur­ing.

Quizzed about the coach­ing job, Jones said he was still func­tion­ing in an in­ter­im po­si­tion.

Guardian Me­dia Sports was told the for­mer strik­er will be favoured for the po­si­tion, es­pe­cial­ly af­ter the de­cent show­ing against the Pana­ma­ni­ans.

Asked if he want­ed to see more than he saw against the Pana­ma­ni­ans, Jones said: "I wouldn't say I want to see more but I want to see some­thing dif­fer­ent. For each block of in­ter­na­tion­al camp that we have or train­ing camp, we're try­ing to im­ple­ment dif­fer­ent as­pects of our com­plete game, struc­ture, phi­los­o­phy.

"This test against the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic would al­low us the op­por­tu­ni­ty to add some dif­fer­ent philoso­phies with the play­ers we have com­ing in­to the squad. And as we go along, we will con­tin­ue to add as we con­tin­ue to pre­pare for the qual­i­fiers in Feb­ru­ary."

The T&T women's team will be­gin their qual­i­fiers in Feb­ru­ary, play­ing out of Group F along­side Guyana, Nicaragua, Do­mini­ca and Turks and Caicos Is­lands.


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