Canada Preparing for
Costa Rica
Canwest News Service
Canada's women's soccer
team has turned its
focus to Costa Rica in
advance of Sunday's
CONCACAF women's Olympic
qualification tournament
in Juarez, Mexico.
After a 6-0 triumph over
Trinidad and Tobago on
Wednesday night, a
victory Sunday will
assure Canada a spot in
the semifinals on April
9.
"The Olympic Games
campaign started with a
quite comfortable win
against a skillful and
quick, but somewhat
disorganized Trinidad
and Tobago team,"
Canadian coach Even
Pellerud said.
"The win could easily
have been much bigger,
as we created an
extraordinary high
number of goal-scoring
opportunities. That
said, our opponent had
some very fast and
skillful strikers and
they challenged our back
four at times."
Canada dominated the
game from the opening
kickoff and got goals
from Melissa Tancredi,
Jonelle Filigno, Kara
Lang, Randee Hermus,
Jodi-Ann Robinson and
Christine Sinclair.
"The six goals were
evenly spread on the two
halves and between six
different players,"
Pellerud said. "I hope
that gives a number of
athletes the confidence
they need going into
harder battles later in
this tournament."
In other action
Wednesday night, Mexico
romped 8-1 over Jamaica.
Friday night Costa Rica
will play Trinidad
Tobago in one match and
the No. 1-ranked United
States meets Jamaica in
the other contest.
The top two teams in
each group qualify for
the semifinals. Both
semifinal winners earn
berths in the Olympics. |
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