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Canadian women work on mixing up their attack as Vancouver camp continues

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Martin MacMahon
– 05/15/2012

Coach John Herdman, left, passes on instruction to Melissa Tancredi, middle, and Christina Julien in Foxboro, Mass. ahead of a friendly against Brazil, last March. PHOTO: CANADA SOCCER

Two months to go until London 2012.

It’s the big tournament the Canadian Women’s National Team has been waiting for since the disappointment of last year’s World Cup, in which Big Red crashed out in the group stage with three straight losses to Germany, France and Nigeria.

The team is in the midst of a residency camp being held throughout Metro Vancouver, as head coach John Herdman prepares his charges for the biggest tournament under his tenure since taking over from Carolina Morace in September, 2011.

“It’s huge,” captain Christine Sinclair told The 11 after a training session at North Vancouver’s Kinsmen Stadium Monday evening. “It’s our camp preparing for the Olympics. It’s a unique opportunity for us to be in Vancouver together for two or three months. We’ve got a lot to work on and that’s giving us that chance.”
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Sweden overwhelms Canadian women in Malmo

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Steven Sandor
– 03/31/2012

Caroline Seger

After beating Brazil last week in a friendly in Massachussets, the Canadian national women’s team fell 3-1 away to Sweden Saturday in another pre-Olympic tuneup.

With little coverage in Canada because of the focus on the U-23 men’s quest to qualify for the Olympics, Swedish sources gave a more telling breakdown of the match.

Canada was never allowed to settle into the game thanks to a wonder goal from Swedish veteran Caroline Seger just seven minutes into the match. After a Canadian giveaway in midfield, Seger spotted keeper Erin McLeod well off her line, and chipped the ball in from 35 yards out. Last season, Seger was a teammate of Canadian striker Christine Sinclair with the Western New York flash of the WPS.
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Sinclair scores twice as Canadian women beat Brazil

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Steven Sandor
– 03/24/2012

Christine Sinclair

Karina LeBlanc became the first goalkeeper in Canadian national-team history to reach 100 caps, and Christine Sinclair scored career goals 132 and 133 as the Canadian women’s team beat Brazil 2-1 Saturday in Foxboro, Mass.

The two women’s national teams — both preparing for the London Olympics — played ahead of an MLS match which saw the New England Revolution defeat the Portland Timbers.

And, the way in which Canada won will have women’s team managers around the world taking notes on how they might be able to beat Brazil at the Games. Throughout the match, Canada was able to take advantage of a sluggish, disorganized back line that played a high line and couldn’t get the offside trap right.
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Italians cry foul over Robyn Gayle’s match-winning goal for Canada

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Steven Sandor
– 03/01/2012

Robyn Gayle

Robyn Gayle’s last-gasp goal gave Canada a 2-1 win over Italy Thursday in Cyprus Cup action.

The Canadian national women’s team now has six points from two matches, and looks good to top its round-robin group. With just one-group-stage match left to go, against the Netherlands, Big Red has a 100 per cent record and a goal difference of plus-six.

Gayle was able to scramble home the winner in injury time after Chelsea Buckland won a battle for the ball in the penalty area.
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Parker, Schmidt lead Canadian women to opening win at Cyprus Cup

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Steven Sandor
– 02/28/2012

Kelly Parker

Kelly Parker scored and had a role in setting up two others as the Canadian national women’s team opened the Cyprus Cup Tuesday with a comprehensive 5-1 win over a Scotland side that’s missing its best player.

Sophie Schmidt scored twice, including the winning goal, while Christine Sinclair and Melissa Tancredi also got goals for the Canadians, who are preparing for the 2012 Olympics in London.

Parker — who played for the Atlanta Beat of WPS last season — scored from over 20 yards out, just six minutes into the game.

Jane Ross, who plays for Glasgow City, beat Canadian keeper Stephanie Labbe to tie the game.
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Women’s soccer goes from high point to low: WPS suspends operations

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Steven Sandor
– 01/30/2012

Less than 12 hours after women’s soccer hit euphoric heights in North America thanks to the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament in Vancouver, it was brought crashing down to Earth Monday.

WPS announced that it will suspend operations for the 2012 season, claiming the legal costs of battling renegade owner Dan Borislow and his magicJack franchise were too much for the struggling league to bear. Already, WPS — down to five teams — needed special dispensation

And, no doubt, the suspension of WPS will have a massive impact on our Canadian women’s team as it prepares foe the London Olympics. Instead of being solely focused on improving the national side ahead of the Games, key players like Christine Sinclair, Candace Chapman, Lauren Sesselmann and Kelly Parker will have other pressing concerns — finding work. WPS announced that it plans for its five existing teams to survive when the league is scheduled to resume in 2013. But, it’s hard to find an example of a league that suspended operations and then came back to life. Usually, it’s the first step to… el foldo.
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Herdman says tactics, management to blame for U.S. rout of Canadian women’s team

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Gavin Day
– 01/30/2012

John Herdman

It was over before all the fans were even inside B.C. Place to make it to their seats. The United States scored early and often in the first half en route to a thoroughly dominating 4-0 win over Canada to win the championship at the 2012 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Alex Morgan stole the show as the focal point for the American attack. Morgan scored twice and set up the other two goals as the full house of 25,427 fans that packed into the stadium were hoping for something special but in the end, the world’s top-ranked team and World Cup runner-up was at its absolute best.

It didn’t take long to silence the capacity crowd as Alex Morgan scored in only the fourth minute. Morgan showed off her fantastic pace as Abby Wambach flicked a high ball. Morgan gained a few yards on Shannon Woeller and Candace Chapman as she blew by them, gained control of the ball and went low to the right of Erin McLeod.
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Mission accomplished: Canadian women book tickets to London

By
Gavin Day
– 01/28/2012

Christine Sinclair PHOTO: CANADA SOCCER

As the full-time whistle sounded, Christine Sinclair and goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc ran to the stands to grab a Canadian flag from the crowd and then paraded around B.C. Place with it.

After Friday’s game, there will be a large call now for Sinclair to carry a flag at the front of the Canadian delegation that walks into the Olympic Stadium this summer.

Sinclair scored twice and Melissa Tancredi added a third as the Canadians brought the 22,954 predominantly Canadian fans to their feet with a hectic 3-1 win over Mexico. Veronica Perez scored Mexico’s lone goal.

“We’re just a team that will never give up,” said Sinclair. “It’s something (Canada head coach John Herdman’s) brought to this program—the fight. When we gave up that goal in the second half I think in the past we would have collapsed. We just kept going and kept battling and got that third goal to close out the game.”
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Canada wins Group A with romp over Costa Rica

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Vijay Setlur
– 01/24/2012

Christine Sinclair

Christine Sinclair scored twice and set up another goal to lead Canada to a dominating 5-1 win over Costa Rica Monday and first place in Group A at the CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

The win maintains Canada’s perfect record all-time against Las Ticas at nine wins in as many games. 

More importantly, it puts Canada in position to avoid the United States in the semfinals pending the outcome of the Americans’ game against Mexico Tuesday for first place in Group B.  A U.S. win and it will face Costa Rica in one semifinal, while Canada would face Mexico.

The two semifinal winners will earn a berth in the London Olympics, making the tournament final on Sunday anticlimactic and limited to bragging rights.
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Canada books spot in Olympic qualifying semifinal

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Vijay Setlur
– 01/22/2012

Melissa Tancredi

Christine Sinclair put on another display of offensive mastery scoring and setting up another goal to lead Canada to a 2-0 win over Cuba on Saturday and earn a place in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Playing in her hometown, Sinclair has been a one-woman offensive force scoring five times and setting up two more in the first two games of the tournament that will send two teams to the London Olympics.

Only a second-half substitution prevented her from padding her statistics against the 97th-ranked Cubans, the lowest ranked team in the tournament.

Sinclair’s work helped Canada keep pace with Costa Rica atop Group A with six points.  Costa Rica beat Haiti 2-0 earlier in the first game of the doubleheader to set up a critical showdown Monday for first place in the group.
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