– Play Puerto Rico today

Guyana’s senior national women’s team, the Lady Jags are one win away from entering the Confederation of North, Central American Caribbean Associations of Football (CONCACAF) Olympic qualifiers. The ladies, who go into their game this evening against Puerto Rico at Boldon Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago in the final round Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Women’s Olympic Qualifier, are upbeat about their chances.
Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, along with Puerto Rico had qualified for the ‘four-team playoff’ by coming out on top of their respective groups and the ladies are more than pumped pushing forward to the finals on November 20 should they beat the Latin American side .
In the final round, the four teams will play a single-elimination tournament. The two finalists and the winner of the third-place match will qualify for the 2016 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship as CFU representatives.
Just recently, head coach Mark Rodrigues said the side is “definitely the underdogs heading into the championships as a result of the other countries who encamped their players several weeks ago, but it’s a position that we have found ourselves in before and somehow we always managed to find some deep resolve to get the job done.
This time will be no different. Admittedly we will have to dig very deep as the teams we will face are the best in the Caribbean and are now in the top 10 best within the 41 countries that make up CONCACAF”
Meanwhile, the Guyanese ladies will have to take the field without English based striker Otesha Charles, who sustained an injury and did not recover in time to suit up for the Lady Jags in Trinidad.
However, the team will now have the service of former NCAA standout goalkeeper Chante Sandiford. The 25 year-old who had a stellar career in the US collegiate system with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is making her senior international debut, after having ‘call-ups’ by the USA for several youth tournaments.
With stints in several professional leagues around Europe, Sandiford now plays with UMF Selfoss in Iceland and Rodrigues believes that her inclusion will certainly boost the team’s chances of reaching the CONCACAF round of the qualifiers.