Canada, winner of the Concacaf women’s championship, entered the Women’s World Cup with high hopes but exited quickly with three losses. The performance, Canada’s worst at thetournament, is a huge setback for its Italian coach, Carolina Morace, who had an ambitious vision for the Canadian women’s game and had trained her players forfour months in […]
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Toronto rallies past Vancouver to win Concacaf slot
[NUTRILITE CANADA CHAMPIONSHIP] For the third straight year, Toronto FC will represent Canada in the Concacaf Champions League preliminary round. TFC beatVancouver, 2-1, Saturday, to win the Nutrilite Canadian Championship, 3-2, on aggregate. By resting some of his regulars for midweek league match with Toronto FC at BMO Field, Vancouverhead coach Tom Soehn believed he’d […]
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Canada pulls disappearing act
[WOMEN’S WORLD CUP SPOTLIGHT] It will be hard for any team at the Women’s World Cup to disappoint quite like Canada. CarolinaMorace‘s women entered the 2011 finals full of optimism after winning the 2010 Concacaf championship and heading to Germany with a 10-1-2 record in 2011. But Canada’s hopes went up in smokewith an embarrassing […]
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2011 Women's World Cup this week …
[SCOREBOARD] Two-time defending champion Germany and France are through to the quarterfinals of the Women’s World Cup. France humiliated Concacaf championCanada, 4-0, while Germany edged African champion Nigeria, 1-0, in their Group A games on Thursday. For the complete schedule … Group A June 26 in Berlin Germany 2 Canada 1. Goals: Garefrekes 10, Okoyino […]
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Canada is loaded with experience
[WOMEN’S WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Concacaf champion Canada will take one of the most experienced teams to the Women’s World Cup. Christine Sinclair, who ranks fifth all-time in the world with 116 goals, is one of four Canadians with 100 or more caps, and goalkeeper KarinaLeBlanc is headed to the finals for the fourth time. Sinclair […]
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Tejada breaks Canadians' hearts
[CANADA-PANAMA] Luis Tejada‘s goal in stoppage time following a wild goalmouth scramble earned Panama a 1-1 tie with Canada and gave theCanaleros the Group C title at the Gold Cup. The result would eliminate Canada when Guadeloupe failed to beat the USA in the second game of the Tuesday doubleheader at Livestrong Sporting Park. Dwayne De […]
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Jozy is drifting, the Deuce is peaking
[USA-CANADA] Here’s what we learned from the USA’s 2-0 win over Canada Tuesday night in Detroit in their Group C opener … There’s a reason the forwards drift wide. Fans and journalists sometimes question why Jozy Altidore and Juan Agudelo occupy the flank, but by working smartly on the wing they can open up space […]
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Four years later, Canada gets another crack at USA
[USA-CANADA PREVIEW] As the tale is told north of the border, the narrowest escape for the USA at the 2007 Gold Cup came not in the final with Mexico, butrather in a semifinal squeaker against Canada. At Soldier Field in Chicago, the same venue at which they would edge past Mexico three days later, the […]
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Canada salvages draw against Ecuador
[GOLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Canada, which will open against the USA at the Gold Cup on Tuesday in Detroit, got a stoppage-time goal from Tosaint Ricketts, his first international goal, to earn a 2-2 tie with Ecuador at BMO Field on Wednesday night. Ecuador was caught off guard when Ricketts scored off a quickJulian de Guzman […]
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Bedoya called into U.S. camp
[GOLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Swedish-based midfielder Alejandro Bedoya has been called into the U.S. national team camp inpreparations for the upcoming friendly against Spain and the Gold Cup. The move follows the ankle injury Benny Feilhaber suffered in the New EnglandRevolution’s 1-0 loss to Los Angeles. Bedoya, who played college soccer at Fairleigh Dickinson and Boston […]