Kyle’s last-gasp goal gives Canada a fortunate draw with the French 4 Apr 2013 The Canadian national women’s team is beginning to get a knack for stunning the French with late goals. In 2012, it was Diana Matheson’s late shocker in the Olympic bronze medal match that gave Canada a 1-0 win over the French. Even though the stakes weren’t nearly as high on Thursday, this time it was Kaylyn Kyle’s turn to play …
Canadian women finish Cyprus Cup group stage with perfect record 11 Mar 2013 Canada will go into Wednesday’s Cyprus Cup final against England with the confidence of having a perfect record at the tournament.
For Canadian women, the medals are bronze, but the effort was golden 9 Aug 2012 Herdman has worked miracles with this team in less than a year. Imagine what he could do with three years of prep time before the Women’s World Cup?
Women’s-team coach Herdman says he’s unclear who or what FIFA is investigating 7 Aug 2012 In a conference call with media Tuesday, the Canadian Soccer Association announced that the team will not be making any more comments on the officiating in that semifinal game. The CSA also confirmed that it will not be challenging or protesting the decision.
After OIympic loss to Japan, we will now see if mental preparations paid off for the Canadian women 25 Jul 2012 Over the coming days, we will see how well Canada responds to Wednesday’s 2-1 loss to Japan in the group-stage opener of the Olympic tournament in Coventry. You can’t escape some of the parallels to the 2011 World Cup opener, another 2-1 loss to a world-power team.
Herdman and Canadian women’s team working out the final details ahead of Olympics 11 Jul 2012 “We create some technical blueprints in each game,” Herdman said during a conference call with media on Wednesday.
Herdman: 2-1 loss to U.S. shows massive improvement 30 Jun 2012 “We’re one goal away from the potential gold medalist, and I think that’s a reality,” he explained. ?“In January, we were four goals away. We’ll try to bridge that gap in the next few weeks.”
Sinclair scores to give Canadian women draw with the Whitecaps 25 May 2012 An estimated crowd of around 500 gathered Thursday in the Vancouver suburbs to see hometown hero Christine Sinclair scored a late chip-shot goal to give the Canadian women’s team a 1-1 draw with the Vancouver Whitecaps women’s side.
Sweden overwhelms Canadian women in Malmo 31 Mar 2012 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.
Herdman says tactics, management to blame for U.S. rout of Canadian women’s team 30 Jan 2012 “We’ve got to look at ourselves first — the management team,” said Canadian coach John Herdman. “What we could have done better — whether it was the selections, the order of the substitutions — some of the tactics where we could have played things quicker or made a bigger impact with certain things. But I can’t fault the players’ effort.”