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All 64 matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ will be broadcast live in English and French this summer in Canada. The matches will be broadcast by CBC Television, Radio-Canada Télévision, CBC Bold, CBCSports.ca and Radio-Canada.ca. The schedule provides more than 1,000 total combined hours of broadcast via television and webstream from 11 June through 11 July.
The Canadian Soccer Association announced today that it has organized a home-and-away series for its women’s national team against the reigning two-time world champion Germany. The two countries have agreed to meet this 15 September 2010 in Germany with a return match to be played in Canada the following year in 2011. The first match will lend to both program’s preparations for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany 2011 while the second match will be part of the preparations for the 2012 Women’s Olympic Football Tournament.
“It is important that we continue to improve our international experience,” said national coach Carolina Morace. “Germany is a team with a long history as one of the best teams in Europe and in the world.”
L’Association canadienne de soccer a annoncé aujourd’hui qu’elle a organisé une série de matchs de deux manches pour son équipe nationale féminine contre l’Allemagne, dont le pays champion mondial régnant depuis deux ans. Les deux pays ont donc pris rendez-vous pour le 15 septembre 2010 en Allemagne avec un match retour qui sera disputé au Canada l’année suivante en 2011. Le premier match prêtera aux préparations des deux programmes pour la Coupe du Monde Féminine de la FIFA 2011 en Allemagne, tandis que le deuxième match fera partie des préparatifs pour le Tournoi Olympique de Football Féminin 2012.
Canada’s women’s national team has moved back up into the top-10 on the FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking. Canada moved up two spots to 10th place on the newest ranking released this 12 March. Canada, whose title partner is Winners and whose presenting partner is Teck, remains the second-ranked team within CONCACAF behind the world’s number-one ranked nation, USA.
L’équipe nationale féminine du Canada se situe de nouveau parmi les dix meilleurs pays du classement mondial féminin FIFA/Coca-Cola. Le Canada a grimpé de deux rangs et occupe maintenant le 10e rang selon le plus récent classement sorti le 12 mars. L’équipe nationale féminine du Canada, dont le commanditaire en titre est Winners et dont le commanditaire-présentateur est Teck, est toujours la deuxième meilleure équipe parmi les nations de la CONCACAF dépassée seulement par les États-Unis au sommet du classement.
Christine Sinclair and Dwayne De Rosario have been selected as the 2009 CanadaSoccer.com Fans’ Choices in an online vote which ran on the Canadian Soccer Association’s official website, www.CanadaSoccer.com.
In recognition of Canadian soccer fans’ support, two winners have been selected from those individuals who voted online. This year’s winners are Jennifer Christie and Scott Dickerson, both of whom will receive a Canada jersey personally signed by national team heroes Sinclair and De Rosario.
One-time Challenge Trophy winner John Breen will be inducted into the Sport Newfoundland Labrador Hall of Fame this April 2010. Mr. Breen will join softball players Bill Barron and Pat Kelly, curler Patricia Dyer, a hockey player Art Hamlyn at the Induction Gala next month.
The Sport Newfoundland and Labrador Hall of Fame is designed to “recognize, honour and pay tribute to all individuals, groups, associations, families or teams on the basis of playing ability, sportsmanship and character and who have achieved extra-ordinary distinction in any sport, whether that distinction be achieved in amateur and/or professional athletics.”
Canada’s women’s national team will face New Zealand in the 2010 Cyprus Women’s Cup final this Wednesday 3 March. Canada is making its third consecutive appearance in the Cyprus Women’s Cup final, having won the 2008 tournament and finishing runner up in 2009. The Canada-New Zealand final kicks off at 17.00 local (10.00 ET / 07.00 ET) at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Canadian fans can follow the match via
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target=”blank”>www.twitter.com/CanadaSoccerEN. Fans can join the conversation by using the women’s national team hashtag, #canWNT. Please visit www.CanadaSoccer.com for more information on this match.
Have you visited our new Twitter feed at www.Twitter.com/CanadaSoccerEN? Be sure to follow our women’s national team this Wednesday morning when it takes part in the 2010 Cyprus Women’s Cup final. Canada will be taking on New Zealand in the final; the kickoff time is 10.00 ET / 7.00 PT.
You don’t need to have a Twitter account to follow our feed, but if you do have an account, then be sure to follow “CanadaSoccerEN”. You can also follow our women’s player Twitter List before or after the game at www.twitter.com/CanadaSoccerEN/canwnt-players.
