Wilkinson, Tancredi and Nault to end their playing careers 13 Jan 2017 Three members of the Canadian women's national team will hang up their cleats after February 4's friendly against Mexico at BC Place.
Canada has itself to blame for FIFA’s Sinclair and Herdman omissions 2 Dec 2016 Why was Canada’s women’s national team coach so angry? Because Christine Sinclair, who moved into the No. 2 spot on the all-time women’s international scoring list in 2016, wasn’t on the shortlist for The Best FIFA Women’s Player Award. (Herdman was also skipped over in the coach-of-the-year selections).
Canada’s U20WWC comes to a not-so-merciful end 20 Nov 2016 Before the first half of Sunday’s group-stage match between Canada and Japan at the U-20 Women’s World Cup was over, the FIFA international feed commentator had already resorted to coming up with consolatory terms for the team in red.
NASL semifinal preview: FCE coach Miller learned a lot about big-game planning from John Herdman 1 Nov 2016 "We call it the ‘what ifs.’ And I learned that really from John Herdman, who was very thorough and very precise in how he did things.”
Young players shine as Canada claims bronze in Rio 19 Aug 2016 The fact that such impressive performances were turned in by youngsters — from fullback Ashley Lawrence to midfielder Jessie Fleming to Beckie to Rose — bodes well for a program that, just four years before, was starved for young talent.
The French dejection: Canada establishes itself as a gold-medal threat 12 Aug 2016 Maybe now, it’s time to believe in the work coach John Herdman and the women have put into this push for the podium. A gritty 1-0 quarter-final win over France wasn’t always pretty, there were some scares, but we know this — Canada can be called not just a medal threat, but a gold-medal threat.
To hell with the draw: Canadian women deserve praise for group-stage perfection 9 Aug 2016 Now, in the world of Canadian soccer fatalism, there will be those who treat this win like a loss; they’ll point to the tough draw. They’ll say Canada would have done better with a second- or third-place finish in the group. But that’s an anti-football mentality. It’s against everything we should hold dear about sport — you shouldn’t try to win by gaming the system, you should try to get to the top by beating all comers.
Buchanan’s second yellow highlights why suspension rules need to be changed 6 Aug 2016 It’s an illustration of just how ridiculous the rules on yellow-card accumulation are. Two yellows over the space of several games in a tournament — really, it’s not worthy of a suspension.
Mistakes cost Canadian women in final pre-Olympic friendly 23 Jul 2016 But, even though Canada didn’t look overmatched by the world’s No. 3-ranked women’s soccer nation, a series of key mistakes allowed the French to claim a 1-0 win.
The keeper question 28 Jun 2016 When Erin McLeod went down with a career-threatening injury, Canada’s most-assured position — goalkeeper — became the biggest question mark heading into the 2016 Olympics. Who will emerge as Canada’s No. 1 choice heading into the Rio Games?
