Football News: Canada will face Jamaica in Olympic qualifying, they want to make up for their failure at the 2023 Women’s World Cup. They intend to return to the Olympics to defend the gold medal they won in last edition, said coach Bev Priestman.
The Tokyo Olympic gold medalists will face Jamaica on September 22 in Kingston and September 26 in Toronto in the Olympic qualifying series.
“We’re motivated because we obviously want to right the wrongs, but also motivated because you know how valuable the Olympics are to this team,” Priestman said via video call with reporters, Friday (08/09) .
The recovery process after a failure at the 2023 Women’s World Cup includes individual meetings with each player and team meetings.
“I went to Fiji for five days and what I learned during that time was that it doesn’t matter where you are. I could be sitting in my office and it still sucks,” Priestman added.
“We had to turn the page, we couldn’t go to a training camp to denounce the shame of the World Cup, and that’s what we did.”
Canada is undefeated in nine matches against Jamaica, although the Reggae Girlz reached the round of 16 of the Women’s World Cup after being eliminated in the first round after a 0-0 draw against Nigeria, a 2-1 victory against Ireland and a 4-0 draw against Ireland. -0 defeat against Australia.
Priestman announced his new squad on Friday (08/09) including 21 of the 23 players from the World Cup squad. Sophie Schmidt is an absent player, having decided to retire.
Article keywords: Women’s World Cup, Canada, Olympics
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