Canada coach Bev Priestman names 25 players for April camp and friendly in France
Canada can now boast two Manchester United gamers on its girls’s nationwide staff roster.
Coach Bev Priestman has summoned fullback Jayde Riviere and ahead Adriana Leon to her 25-player camp roster for the April worldwide window.
The two Red Devils be part of captain Christine Sinclair and fellow stalwarts Sophie Schmidt, Jessie Fleming, Kadeisha Buchanan, Ashley Lawrence, Kailen Sheridan, Allysha Chapman and Quinn, who goes by one title, for a camp that can culminate with an April 11 pleasant with France.
“With the World Cup around the corner, this camp is pivotal,” Priestman mentioned in an announcement Wednesday. “We will get to do some real good work as a group, both tactically but also culturally. I’m excited to get the group together after a very difficult February window.”
Difficult as a result of the Olympic champion Canadian girls took half within the SheBelieves Cup in opposition to a backdrop of job motion and labour unrest.
“We purposely targeted a one-game window, where we will rehearse a true Women’s World Cup lead-in and the associated processes,” said Priestman. “This camp is the last opportunity to see players in our environment before I have the difficult task of picking a 23-player World Cup squad in June.”
Canada has been drawn in Group B on the World Cup with No. 10 Australia, No. 22 Ireland and No. 42 Nigeria.
Riviere signed with Manchester United in January however, recovering from harm, didn’t make the matchday squad till Saturday when she dressed for a 4-0 win over West Ham.
The 22-year-old from Markham, Ont., who has received 36 caps for Canada, introduced in September that she had performed her final recreation for the University of Michigan and was taking time to get well from an harm. Riviere final performed for Canada in July on the CONCACAF W Championship in Mexico.
Leon, 30, joined Manchester United from West Ham in July.
Sixth-ranked Canada takes on play No. 5 France in Le Mans at Marie-Marvingt Stadium within the penultimate FIFA window earlier than the World Cup, which kicks off July 20 in Australia and New Zealand.
The French girls’s program has skilled turmoil of its personal in latest days.
Coach Corinne Diacre, who led France to the quarterfinals of the 2019 World Cup, was fired March 9 after a number of gamers expressed their discontent.
“The numerous hearings conducted have made it possible to establish a very important gap with some top players,” the French soccer federation mentioned. “This gap has reached a point of no return that damages the team’s interests.”
The transfer got here after captain Wendie Renard and forwards Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Kadidiatou Diani mentioned they have been stepping away from the nationwide staff.
Diacre, who took over the nationwide staff in 2017 and was below contract till August 2024, captained the nationwide staff throughout a enjoying profession that noticed her make 121 appearances for France.
The Canadian girls are 5-7-3 all-time in opposition to France and are 1-4-1 since beating the French 1-0 within the bronze medal recreation on the 2012 London Olympics. The one win over that interval got here on the 2016 Rio Olympics.
France has received the final two conferences, each by 1-0 scores, in Calais in March 2020 and Rennes in April 2018.
The Canadians are nonetheless with out Deanne Rose, Nichelle Prince and Desiree Scott, who’re recovering from harm.
Canada Roster
Goalkeepers: Sabrina D’Angelo, Arsenal (England); Lysianne Proulx, SCU Torreense (Portugal); Kailen Sheridan, San Diego Wave (NWSL).
Defenders: Kadeisha Buchanan, Chelsea (England); Gabrielle Carle, Washington Spirit (NWSL); Allysha Chapman, Houston Dash (NWSL); Vanessa Gilles, Olympique Lyonnais (France); Sydney Collins, North Carolina Courage (NWSL); Ashley Lawrence, Paris Saint-Germain (France); Jayde Riviere, Manchester United (England); Jade Rose, Harvard University (NCAA); Bianca St-Georges, Chicago Red Stars (NESL); Sura Yekka, Le Havre AC (France).
Midfielders: Simi Awujo, USC (NCAA); Jessie Fleming, Chelsea (England); Julia Grosso, Juventus (Italy); Quinn, OL Reign (NWSL); Sophie Schmidt, Houston Dash (NWSL).
Forwards: Amanda Allen, NDC-CDN Ontario; Jordyn Huitema, OL Reign (NWSL); Cloe Lacasse, Benfica (Portugal); Clarissa Larisey, BK Hacken FF (Sweden); Adriana Leon, Manchester United (England); Christine Sinclair (capt.), Portland Thorns (NWSL); Evelyne Viens, Kristianstads DFF (Sweden).
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