Canada’s Christine Sinclair leads squad into her sixth FIFA Women’s World Cup

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Published 09.07.2023

Canada’s Christine Sinclair leads squad into her sixth FIFA Women’s World Cup

Christine Sinclair has scored in 5 FIFA Women’s World Cups throughout her profession. As spectacular as that’s, she will probably be trying to make it six when the 2023 match kicks off on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand.

The 40-year-old Sinclair was one in every of 23 girls named on Sunday by head coach Bev Priestman to Canada’s roster for the occasion, which Sinclair first performed at in 2003. That was 323 caps and 190 targets in the past for the native of Burnaby, B.C.

Sinclair will probably be joined on the 23-player squad by veterans and family names Kadeisha Buchanan, Ashley Lawrence, and Sophie Schmidt, who signify a mixed 469 nationwide staff video games between them.

Missing from the group is veteran midfielder Desiree Scott, who couldn’t recuperate from knee surgical procedure in time to make the squad. Janine Beckie had already been dominated out on account of a torn ACL she suffered in March. Defender Jade Rose, a rising star at simply 20, was pressured to withdraw from the pre-tournament camp on account of harm.

Midfielder Marie-Yasmine Alidou and ahead Clarissa Larisey, who have been invited to the camp on Australia’s Gold Coast, additionally didn’t make the ultimate roster.

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Youngsters Simi Awujo, 19, and Olivia Smith, 18, each made the squad. They’ll be making their World Cupt debuts, together with Lysianne Proulx, Vanessa Giles, Cloé Lacasse, and Evelyne Viens. Proulx is the lone uncapped member of the squad.

“I’m naturally devastated for the players who have missed out, especially due to injuries, but I know every player will be with us on our journey and have been pivotal in getting us to this point,” mentioned Priestman in a press release from Canada Soccer.

The staff will open the match with a recreation in opposition to Nigeria on Friday, July 21 in Melbourne. Canada’s different group video games are in opposition to the Republic of Ireland on July 26 in Perth and co-hosts Australia on July 31, again in Melbourne. The occasion, which culminates on Aug. 20 in Sydney, will characteristic 32 nations for the primary time.

The objective, as all the time, is to come back residence champions, which will probably be no small job for the seventh-ranked Canadians. Though Olympic success has change into a pattern for the staff, with a pair of bronze medals after which gold on the 2020 Games (held in 2021 due to the pandemic) in Tokyo, Canada’s greatest Women’s World Cup putting was approach again in 2003, when it completed fourth. The girls have been knocked out within the Round of 16 on the final World Cup in 2019 once they misplaced to Sweden, and bought so far as the quarterfinals in 2015 when Canada hosted the occasion.

The staff is scheduled to play a closed-door match in opposition to England on Friday.

Canada’s Women’s World Cup Roster:

CANADA

GK – Sabrina D’Angelo | ENG / Arsenal FC 

GK – Lysianne Proulx | POR / SCU Torreense 

GK – Kailen Sheridan | USA / San Diego Wave FC 

CB – Kadeisha Buchanan | ENG / Chelsea FC 

CB – Vanessa Gilles | FRA / FCF Olympique Lyonnais 

CB – Shelina Zadorsky | ENG / Tottenham Hotspur

FB – Gabrielle Carle | USA / Washington Spirit

FB – Allysha Chapman | USA / Houston Dash 

FB – Ashley Lawrence | FRA / Chelsea FC