Canada’s women’s U-17 team remains perfect at the 2010 CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Championship. Canada won 2:1 win over Panama on Saturday 13 March for its second victory in the group stage, thus ensuring a spot in the semi-final stage of this year’s tournament. Canada remains in second place in Group 2 behind group leader Mexico, who is also perfect with six points following a 3:0 victory over Jamaica earlier in the day.

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Canada and Mexico both have six points, but Mexico leads the group with a +9 goal differential (nine goals scored, no goals conceded). Canada is second with a +4 goal differential (six goals scored, two goals conceded). Canada will have an opportunity to overtake Mexico for the group lead on Monday 15 March. The Canada-Mexico match will kick off at 19.30 local at the Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto in Alajuela, Costa Rica. The match will be broadcast live on CONCACAF.com at 21.30 ET / 18.30 PT.

In the semi-final stage, the two first place teams (one from each group) will face the second-place teams from the opposite group. In that opposite group, both USA (six points, +22 goal differential) and Costa Rica (six points, +9 goal differential) have qualified for the semi-final stage. USA will face Costa Rica to determine first place in Group 1 on Sunday 14 March.

Canada, whose title sponsor is BMO Financial Group, is competing in the second CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Championship from 10-20 March in Alajuela, Costa Rica. The top two teams from the eight-team competition will qualify for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Trinidad and Tobago 2010. All 16 matches in the tournament are broadcast live on CONCACAF.com. Fans can also follow the Canadian matches via www.twitter.com/CanadaSoccerEN.