The Cayman Islands senior women’s national football team is preparing for their CONCACAF Women’s World Cup Qualifiers, scheduled to kick off in November.
Cayman will compete in group C against Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Bermuda and Grenada, with the winner of that group advancing to the CONCACAF W Championship where they will join seven other teams in a bid for a spot in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Cayman Islands women’s national head coach Alexander Gonzalez told the Cayman Compass on 1 Sept., during a training session, that the upcoming matches are expected to be challenging for his squad.
“It is very difficult for us, but we need to evaluate the opponents; starting with Jamaica, they are a strong team in this group,” said Gonzalez. “The other strong team is the Dominican Republic… we [will] try to compete against that team but the possibility against them is difficult, but we will try to compete.”
The national women recently had the best performance in recent memory, when they dominated a friendly tournament in Turks and Caicos, defeating Bahamas twice and US Virgin Islands in clean sheet matches.
Cayman Islands Football Association general secretary Marcos Tinoco told the Compass those matches were organised to prepare for the World Cup Qualifiers.
“So the tournament in Turks and Caicos was a part of the plan, in preparation for the Qualifiers that we will be playing in November,” said Tinoco.
The senior men finished their World Cup Qualifiers this past June,...
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