The hosts Trinidad and Tobago women will look for a winning start to the Concacaf Caribbean Group A Olympic Women’s qualifiers when they take on Aruba on Monday from 5 p.m. at Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. The match will be preceded by a 2.30 p.m. clash between St Kitts and Nevis and Dominican Republic.

The qualifiers run start Monday and will run to Tuesday, October 8 with all matches being played at the Couva venue. After their opener against Aruba, the Soca Princesses meet Antigua and Barbuda (October 2), St Kitts and Nevis (October 6) and the Dominican Republic (October 8) over a nine-day period.

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