00:00Well coach of the under-20 women's team Dhunelle Maskell felt it was always going to be a tough
00:04ask to beat Canada as the team did not field the best 11.
00:08Well if you notice we lost our number one keeper from the first game.
00:13So she had a little niggling injury, I think it was her thigh, then we lost our second
00:20keeper, you see there again, and I think it was a blow to the head.
00:25She says the objective was to enforce more ball possession but felt they did not achieve
00:29that.
00:30We wanted to be a team that possessed and be more mature in our decision making when
00:34we have the ball and we could see where we faltered a lot in that instance and again
00:39we paid for the mistakes.
00:41With the scoreline behind them, Maskell indicated they will be aiming to rebuild to hopefully
00:45stamp their name once again as a powerhouse in the region.
00:49This is a perfect measuring tool as I see it, when you play the Giants only then you
00:54know how good you really are, gone are the days when we just compete against the Caribbean
01:00teams, we set a goal to go after the Giants and mark our name in CONCACAF again.
01:05She encouraged the younger players in the team to lift their heads up as they turned
01:10their attention to other competitions featuring tough opposition.
01:13The positive in it, when you look at the players, they were the ones, the majority of the U17
01:18players were the ones we literally had to scrape off the pitch, they gave it their all.
01:23So for that we're always grateful and it's always a nice thing to see as a coach.
01:28Trinidad's coach Cindy Tai was respectful of the talent of the national team.
01:32Well for us it's a time for us to get together and obviously the pre-qualifying we need to
01:37get the results to make sure we get into the next round so that was our main objective
01:41and for us we use it as a time to evaluate players and performances so we could move
01:46on and Trinidad all throughout the tournament they're so spirited and they have some really
01:52great players so we were telling our kids that we have to make sure that we have our
01:56best foot forward and keep our good habits and that's what they did tonight, tried to
02:00stay disciplined so we can prepare for the next round.
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