Canada Soccer to fully review women’s program after early exit from World Cup
TORONTO — Jason deVos says disappointment is an understatement in the case of Olympic champion Canada’s early exit on the FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Canada Soccer’s interim basic secretary says there might be a full evaluation of each the event and the ladies’s program.
“What I can say is that (coach) Bev (Priestman) has my full support. She knows that,” deVos instructed The Canadian Press.
“Bev is obviously taking a bit of time to be with her family right now,” he added. “So when she returns, I’ll sit down with her. We’ll go through a very thorough process to review the tournament, the lead-up to the tournament, the entire year and the program moving forward with a view to learning where we can improve and how we can get better and ensure the team is set up for success in a very important two-game series that’s coming up in six weeks time.”
The seventh-ranked Canadian ladies face Jamaica in an Olympic qualifying playoff Sept. 24 in Kingston, Jamaica, and Sept. 26 at Toronto’s BMO Field. The Forty third-ranked Reggae Girlz went farther than Canada on the World Cup, ending runner-up to France in Group F whereas relegating No. 8 Brazil to 3rd place earlier than falling 1-0 to No. 25 Colombia within the spherical of 16.
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Canada did not emerge from a troublesome Group B, tying No. 40 Nigeria 0-0, rallying to edge No. 22 Ireland and crashing 4-0 to No. 10 Australia in a do-or-die finale.
The Matildas and runner-up Nigeria each superior to the knockout spherical. Third-place Canada returned residence.
Australia went on to clean No. 13 Denmark 2-0 within the spherical of 16 whereas Nigeria misplaced to No. 4 England in a penalty shootout after a scoreless draw. The Matildas face fifth-ranked France in quarterfinal play Saturday.
DeVos, who was in Australia, mentioned he did his finest to help the Canadian marketing campaign whereas holding his distance from the group to let it go about its business.
“It was challenging,” mentioned deVos, a former Canada captain and member of the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame. “When you don’t get the results that you hope to get, you want to get, it’s frustrating. I can sense certainly the disappointment from the players, from the staff. And certainly my heart goes out to them, because I’ve unfortunately felt that disappointment myself as a player and as a coach. And it’s difficult to get over and it takes time.”
Priestman, whose file on the Canadian helm is 22-10-9 since succeeding Kenneth Heiner-Moller in November 2020, doesn’t have a hard and fast time period to her employment settlement with Canada Soccer.
DeVos says whereas the Canadian ladies would not have any fixtures confirmed but for FIFA’s October and November worldwide home windows, talks are underway with different federations.
“It’s been a bit challenging obviously with the Women’s World Cup and everyone’s focus on Australia and New Zealand and assuring that they were fully prepared and ready to go there,” he mentioned. “We haven’t been in a position to put a substantial amount of consideration on that simply but however I do know that that’s going to be entrance and centre of everybody’s consideration as we come again on line, when the employees are again in and able to go in making ready for the video games in September.
“We’ll be working pretty hard to try and make sure that we’ve good competitive fixtures for October and November.”
DeVos says work continues on a labour settlement with the lads’s and girls’s groups. While an interim deal, overlaying compensation for the ladies for 2023 together with the World Cup, was struck in the course of the event, each groups — in separate statements — expressed displeasure on the state of negotiations.
“Obviously it was a step forward for us, I feel, getting an interim agreement in place with the women’s team. There’s still more work to be done,” deVos mentioned. “And all I can say is we remain committed to ensuring that the players have everything that they need to succeed on the field, so that they have the support mechanisms around them, whether it’s travel standards, accommodations, training standards, staff support, what have you, to set them up for success.”
As for revisiting Canada Soccer’s contentious settlement with Canadian Soccer Business, deVos says discussions are underway.
“It’s incumbent on us to get together and try to figure that out,” mentioned deVos. “Nothing’s been finalized yet but we’re working toward that and working diligently on it.”
Canada Soccer Business primarily markets Canada Soccer’s product, on the sector and off, through broadcast and sponsorship agreements. Canada Soccer, which doesn’t maintain an possession stake in CSB, is reportedly receiving $3 million to $4 million a yr presently underneath the deal.
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