T&T’s Under-20 women’s footballers went under to host Costa Rica 2-1 in their final warm-up match at the Costa Rican Goal Project Centre in San Jose, yesterday.
The defeat for the young Soca Princesses come a day after both teams had battled to a 0-0 draw at the same venue as they fine tuned preparations for the Concacaf Final Round World Cup qualifying phase which kicks off in Guatemala City on Tuesday.
The national Under-20 women’s team is due to leave San Jose today for Guatemala for the eight-team competition which runs from January 19 to 30.
In Guatemala, T&T which qualified for the Concacaf Final Round qualifiers as Caribbean Football Union Under-20 winners and coached by Jamaal Shabazz will meet USA, Mexico and Jamaica in Group A while defending champions Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba and hosts Guatemala are in Group B.
The top two teams from each round-robin group will qualify for the semifinals after which the top three teams from will secure places at the Fifa Under-20 Women's World Cup in Germany later this year.