Ottawa, Ontario – L’Association canadienne de soccer (ACS) a le regret aujourd’hui d’annoncer l’annulation du match international amical féminin entre l’équipe canadienne féminine de Coupe du monde et celle de la France, jeudi le 28 avril 2005 à Laval, au Québec.
En raison de l’annulation d’un autre match contre une équipe de la CONCACAF le 24 avril, la Fédération française de football (FFF) a été forcée d’annuler son voyage en Amérique du Nord.
L’équipe canadienne féminine de Coupe du monde disputera prochainement trois matchs internationaux amicaux soit contre les Pays-Bas, le 19 avril, puis contre l’Allemagne, championne du monde en titre, les 21 et 24 avril. L’ACS est en discussion pour ajouter un quatrième match à cette tournée, le 27 avril 2005.
Ottawa, Ontario – Former Canadian Women’s World Cup team player, Silvana Burtini was recently named by FIFA’s Committee for Women’s Football to a list of famous female players who will act as women’s football ambassadors for FIFA.
Burtini, who scored 38 goals in 78 appearances for Canada, retired following the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2003.
FIFA Ambassadors for Women’s Football
AKERS Michelle, USA
AKIDE Mercy NGR
BURTINI Silvana, CAN
FOUDY Julie, USA
FUTABA Kioka, JPN
HAMM Mia, USA
LIU Ailing, CHN
MORACE, Carolina ITA
MURRAY Julie, AUS
NEID Silvia, GER
SISSI, BRA
STOERE Heidi, NOR
SUNDHAGE Pia, SWE
WEN Sun, CHN
WIEGMANN Bettina, GER
NEW YORK – CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football) announced that tickets for the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup are available from today, at each of the seven stadiums in the six USA cities that will host the event from 6-24 July.
Ticket prices for single dates start as low as $20 in some venues for first round doubleheaders. Discounts are available for group tickets and for packages of tickets to all the match days in the same city. All tickets are subject to availability.
For more information, please visit CONCACAF.com
Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Men’s World Cup Team head coach Frank Yallop today named his 16-player roster for the upcoming international friendly against Portugal on March 26. The game will be played in Barcelos, a town approximately 50 km north of Porto at 8:30 p.m. local time.
“This is a game that many of us have been eagerly looking forward to for some time,” said Yallop. “You always want to try to play the best countries in the World and to play last year’s finalists from the European Championships in their own country is a great challenge for us.”
Yallop has selected 13 of the 16 players who played in Canada’s 1-0 win over Northern Ireland in Belfast on February 9. Joining the team for the first time since World Cup Qualifying are midfielder Julian de Guzman, defender/midfielder Paul Stalteri and forward Tomasz Radzinski.
Ottawa, Ontario – As the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) nears its 100th anniversary, it is embarking on some of the most exciting projects in its history. Some of the current activities and projects include:
As part of our future planning, we have taken the initiative to try and capture some of the energy and enthusiasm that surrounds Canadian soccer through a search to find a new, updated CSA logo. While all would agree that it is important to connect to the past and maintain equity in the current design, it is time to look forward as well.
Ottawa, Ontario – Canada’s Men’s National Team will play the USA, Costa Rica and Cuba in Group B at the 2005 CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football) Gold Cup™ which will take place from July 6-24 across the USA, it was announced today.
Canada will play its first two games against Costa Rica (July 7) and the USA (July 9) at Seattle’s Qwest Field before moving to the Gillette Stadium in Foxboro near Boston to face Cuba on July 12.
“I am delighted to be located in Seattle and to give some of our fans a chance to come and support us,” said head coach Frank Yallop. “We are very familiar with Costa Rica having played them twice in qualifying and of course the US game will be a great test for us. We also have some unfinished business with Cuba as they beat us last time out. It’s an exciting draw and it should prove a real test for our young team.”
Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) today announced its Women’s World Cup Team will play France on Thursday, April 28th in Laval, Quebec at the Laval Multi-Sport Complex in Quebec at 7:00 PM.
Canada, ranked 11th, and France, who is currently ranked ninth in the world, have met twice before. Canada was defeated 0:1 in their first encounter on April 11, 1995 in Poissy, France. In their second match, played on April 6, 2002 in Angoulème, France, Canada won 2:0, with goals from Kara Lang and Andrea Neil.
Tickets are available through the Québec Soccer Federation, located at the Laval Multi-Sport Complex, 955 Avenue Bois-de-Boulogne, in Laval, or by phone at (450) 975-3355. Individual tickets are priced at $15.00 each. Groups of 10 or more can purchase tickets at a discount rate of $10.00 per person.
Ottawa, Ontario – L’Association canadienne de soccer (ACS) a annoncé aujourd’hui que son équipe féminine de Coupe du monde affrontera la France, jeudi le 28 avril à 19h au Complexe Multi-Sports de Laval (Québec).
Le Canada, classé 11e au monde et la France, qui occupe présentement le neuvième rang mondial, ont croisé le fer à deux occasions auparavant. Le Canada a été vaincu 1 à 0 lors de leur première rencontre, le 11 avril 1995 à Poissy, en France. À leur deuxième match, le 6 avril 2002, Kara Lang et Andrea Neil ont mené les Canadiennes à un gain de 2 à 0 à Angoulème (France).
Les billets sont en vente auprès de la Fédération de soccer du Québec, située au Complexe Multi-Sports au 955 avenue Bois-de-Boulogne, à Laval ou par téléphone au (450)975-3355. Les billets se vendent au prix de 15$ l’unité. Les groupes de 10 personnes ou plus profiteront d’un tarif spécial à 10$ par personne.
Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Soccer Association would like to introduce “IT’S A GREAT GAME”, a documentary film by Robbie Hart on the Canadian Women’s World Cup Team. The film will be shown at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver on Monday, February 21 at 7:00 p.m. and at La Maison Théâtre in Montréal on Friday, February 25 at 7:00 p.m.
Synopsis – “IT’S A GREAT GAME” a documentary film by Robbie Hart
CANADA’S NATIONAL WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM IS ON A MISSIONÂ… To win the most important women’s soccer tournament on the planet – the Women’s World Cup. But history is against them. In 75 years of international soccer, no Canadian team men or women, has ever won a single World Cup match. Filmed across Canada and the United States over a six month period, IT’S A GREAT GAME follows the team on and off the field as they gear up for the big tournament.