The BVI Women’s National Football team suffered a huge defeat in their first game of the CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers against Cuba over the weekend.
Playing on Saturday February 19 at the Estadio General Francisco Morazan stadium in Honduras, the national team went down 14 goals to nil in their opening game.
Despite the heavy loss, goal keeper Kimberly Smith had a standout performance, making several saves to frustrate the Cubans.
However, the most impressive performance on the day belonged to Cuba’s Yeranis Lee who tallied six goals in the 14-nil victory which puts her team at the top of the table with a perfect record of two wins from two games.
In a subsequent media release from the BVI Football Association, Head Coach Wayne Phillip after the game said he was impressed with the manner in how the team stuck to their tasks despite the challenge.
He said, “Cuba is a very fast team, but there’s a lot of positives…It’s a learning experience, most of the girls are young, so all we can do is move from here and work hard on getting better.”
“I see a lot of things that we can work on and keep building on. There were some encouraging passages of play, especially in the first half before maybe tiredness took over and it was a hot day on a big pitch, but I’m not making any excuses and we are going to learn from this” Coach Phillip added.
The BVI’s next game of the tournament will be tomorrow Tuesday February 22, against host Honduras at 5:30pm BVI time.