Not many individuals, let alone collegiate student-athletes, get the opportunity to represent one's country. For Radford women's soccer senior Jasmine Sampson, that opportunity became a reality.
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Yorke: One loss is not the end of the road
Former national football captain Dwight Yorke voiced his support towards the national women’s team prior to their December 2 final World Cup qualifier against Ecuador. A victory, he said, would have propelled the women’s game but with the result now history, Yorke has another message for Maylee Attin-Johnson and her teammates.
Take a bow, Women Soca Warriors
Winning is a joyful experience in almost the same way that losing provides essential lessons for the future.
Building Women Warriors’ success
The adage of goals win matches holds true regardless of dominance of ball possession. T&T clearly had the higher percentage of ball possession. However, they failed to convert any of the many chances they had to score.
Hype does not win a match
EVEN before the starting whistle for Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier was blown, the Women Soca Warriors had already lost the crucial game to Ecuador, former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has said.
The ‘event’ supporters
“We don’t support sport. We support events.”
Brian Lewis’ comment in the context of the overwhelming turnout and the peculiar behaviour of many fans for Tuesday’s do-or-die women’s World Cup qualifier was prompted by my lamentation over the preoccupation with fete, fete, fete before, during and immediately after the 1-0 loss to Ecuador that ended the dream of the national team.
T&T skipper makes appeal on behalf of Women Warriors after loss to Ecuador
The Women Warriors need jobs.
Team captain Maylee Attin-Johnson specifically mentioned her colleague Ahkeela Mollon when she highlighted a problem facing many of the players on the national team, which failed to qualify for the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup when it lost 1-0 to Ecuador Tuesday night at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain.
This One’s For you, Jamaal Shabazz
Missing from the euphoria surrounding the Women Warriors was any notion of how this team of women footballers, fierce, united and impassioned, had found their way to the edge of World Cup possibility.
Women Warriors reignite the passion
The events of Tuesday evening was definitely a signal of renaissance for T&T football caused by the impact of this country’s national women’s footballers in their decisive Fifa Women’s World Cup qualifying match at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port-of-Spain.