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For more information on this match, please visit the following fixture link. The first few players have arrived in Toronto this weekend in anticipation of Wednesday’s Canada-Jamaica match in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ Qualifers. The earliest group – Julian de Guzman, Ali Gerba, Tomasz Radzinski and Paul Stalteri – all trained briefly this Sunday at BMO Field with coach Dale Mitchell and the team staff. Canada’s men’s national team faces Jamaica on Wednesday 20 August in its first of six CONCACAF Stage III matches. Group opponents Honduras and Mexico, meanwhile, face each other in Mexico City. The Canada-Jamaica match will be broadcast live on Sportsnet Pacific and Sportsnet West (19.30 ET / 17.30 MT / 16.30 PT) for viewers with all Sportsnet channels. Tickets to the match are available via ticketmaster.ca (416.872.5000).
In anticipation of Canada’s big Wednesday match in Toronto, adidas Canada has invited several members of Canada’s national team to its downtown store off Yonge Street this Monday 18 August. The players will be visiting the store from 14.30 to 15.30 (10 Dundas Street East at the corner of Dundas/Yonge). This Wednesday 20 August, of course, is the start of CONCACAF Stage III of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ Qualifiers. Canada will host Jamaica at BMO Field in its first of six Stage III matches. Tickets are available via ticketmaster.ca (416.872.5000). The match will also be broadcast live on Sportsnet Pacific and Sportsnet West (19.30 ET / 17.30 MT / 16.30 PT).
For more information on this match, please visit the following fixture link. Canada’s Olympic dream has come to an end after a 1:2 loss to the United States at the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament. Canada held the world’s number-one ranked Americans to an even score for much of the 15 August quarter-final, but the United States finally went up for good with the winner in extra time. Canada’s women’s football team was participating in its first Women’s Olympic Football Tournament. Canada was successful in reaching the quarter-final stage, but could not topple the reigning Olympic champions. Heading into this tournament, the United States is the only team with a top-three finish in all eight senior women’s FIFA tournaments (five FIFA Women’s World Cups and three Women’s Olympic Football Tournaments).
Malgré cette défaite crève-cÂœur face aux Américaines en quarts de finale du Tournoi Olympique de Football Féminin, l’équipe canadienne féminine rentrera la tête haute au pays après une première expérience fort réussie. Avec une participation à la ronde des médailles et une défaite en prolongation aux mains des tenantes du titre olympique et meneurs au classement mondial de la FIFA, les Canadiennes auront encore une fois fait tourner bien des têtes.
For more information on this match, please visit the following fixture link. On the eve of what could be the biggest women’s football match in Association history, Canada is ready for its opponent, the world’s number-one ranked United States. As strong as its opponent has been in the past, Big Red is ready for the win-or-go-home quarter-final in the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament. The 15 August match kicks off at 18.00 at Shanghai Stadium in Shanghai, China (06.00 ET or 03.00). Live coverage will be broadcast on CBC television and CBCSports.ca. This is Canada’s first participation in the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament and its second trip to a women’s senior FIFA quarter-final. Five years ago, Canada won 1:0 over China to advance to the semi-final of the FIFA Women’s World Cup USA 2003. Now, Canada will have to defeat the United States – something it hasn’t done in seven years – to advance to this tournament’s semi-final in Beijing.
À la veille de ce qui pourrait être le plus important match de soccer féminin de l’histoire de l’Association canadienne de soccer, les joueuses de l’équipe nationale canadienne féminine senior s’annoncent prêtes pour à affronter son leur adversaire, les États-Unis, pourtant classés numéro un à l’échelle internationalemondial. Aussi fort que l’est soit son l’adversaire, les « rouge et blanc » sont prêts bien préparées pour pour disputer ce match éliminatoire des quarts de finale du Tournoi Olympique de Football Féminin., match qui sera sans doute très tendu, puisqu’il s’agit d’élimination directe. Ce match du 15 août débutera à 18 h 00 (heure locale) au Stade de Shanghai, à Shanghai, en Chine (06 h 00, Heure de l’Est, 03 h 00, Heure du Pacifique). Le match sera retransmis en direct sur les ondes de la CBC et sur le Web au site CBCSports.ca. Il s’agit de la toute première participation canadienne à une édition du Tournoi Olympique de Football Féminin et de la deuxième à un quart de finale d’un tournoi international senior de la FIFA.
Canada’s men’s national team has called upon 18 players for its next match in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ Qualifiers. The Canucks will have two days of training together before the 20 August match against Jamaica at BMO Field in Toronto. Canada will play six matches against three teams in Stage III of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ Qualifiers. Three of those matches are in Canada: 20 August against Jamaica in Toronto (Ticketmaster.ca / 416.872.5000), 6 September against Honduras in Montréal (admission.com or 514.790.1245) and 15 October against Mexico in Edmonton (Ticketmaster.ca / 780.451.8000). Tickets to the Toronto and Montréal matches have been selling very well while details regarding the Edmonton on-sale date should be announced shortly.
For the third FIFA tournament in a row, Canada’s women’s football team has finished the group stage with a 1-1-1 record – one win, one draw and one loss. Five years ago at the FIFA Women’s World Cup USA 2003, Canada’s win in its final group match was the difference in pushing the team through to the quarter-final stage. A win over favoured China later, Canada was en route to a best-ever fourth-place finish at a senior event. Last year at China 2007, a draw in the last group match was not enough to see Canada through to the quarter-final stage. That time, ninth place was the best that Canada could do.
Pour le troisième tournoi de la FIFA d’affilé, l’équipe nationale canadienne féminine senior a terminé la phase des groupes en affichant un bilan de 1-1-1 (une victoire, un match nul, une défaite). Il y a cinq ans, dans le cadre de la Coupe du Monde Féminine de la FIFA, États-Unis 2003, le Canada a remporté son dernier match de la phase des groupes pour se qualifier à aux quarts de finale. Les « Canucks » ont enchaîné avec une belle victoire face à la Chine, pourtant grande favorite. Suite à ce match, le Canada a terminé quatrième, son meilleur placement au cours d’un tournoi international senior. L’année dernière, dans le cadre de la Coupe du Monde Féminine de la FIFA, Chine 2007, le Canada a fait match nul au cours de son dernier match de groupe, ce qui n’a pas suffi aux Canadiennes pour se qualifier à l’étape suivante. Cette fois-ci, le Canada n’a pu se hisser qu’au neuvième rang du classement.
