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Last month, the Canadian team drew close to 55,000 fans at BC Place in Vancouver for the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers match. This was the largest attendance total for any national team sport event in Canada’s history.
The Rio 2016 Women’s Olympic Football Tournament will be held in August as the team heads out to Rio de Janeiro for matches. Canada will open on August 3 with a match against Australia and will also face off against Germany and Zimbabwe.
Coach John Herdman is hoping to see that all the players on the side will continue to grow and mature. He is looking forward to watching some of the younger players on the team develop.
Canada is hoping to advance upon the bronze medal it won in London in 2012. This was the first team medal for a Canadian team in the summer Olympics since 1936.
The team will have two matches in June, one in Toronto and one in Ottawa, in the Road to Rio International Series. The matches on June 4 and 7 will feature the team taking on Brazil. Canada already has eight wins in ten international matches in this calendar season.
The competition for Canada will go well beyond the Olympics. On September 6, the Canadian team will head to Vancouver to face El Salvador in the CONCACAF semi-final. Matches with these two and Honduras will determine who will join Mexico in the CONCACAF Final.
Canada will be on the road before the match with El Salvador. They will take on Honduras on September 2 in San Pedro Sula. Canada has plenty of points but their goal differential is worse than what Honduras has. Mexico has already clinched a spot in the final for leading in the group.
Many of the matches that the Canadians will be involved in will be on TSN and RDS. The Road to Rio series will be aired on these stations as well as the Amway Canadian Championship series. RDS will still air Impact Montreal FC matches.
On the men’s side, the Amway Canadian Championship series will continue to offer some great matches with teams like the Vancouver Whitecaps, Ottawa Fury, FC Edmonton, Impact Montreal FC and Toronto FC competing to be the best men’s soccer team in the country. The matches will take place in June. Home and away legs will be played in the finals as Vancouver will take in either Ottawa or Edmonton and Montreal will face Toronto to see who will get into the finals.