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Another tourney is back on the docket. The 4th edition of the Concacaf Girls u15 Championship will be from July 31-August 7. It will be held as usual in Florida - Hillsborough County Tournament Sportsplex in Tampa.

Canada won the 2014 edition and finished as runners up in 2016. US won in 2018.

32 teams will be split into 3 leagues based on May 2022 Concacaf u17 rankings. The teams will be divided into groups of four. The two group winners and second place finishers of League A will advance to the knockout stage and will play for the tournament’s championship.  

League A: Canada, Costa Rica, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, United States, and the guest nation.  

League B (next 12 best ranked teams): Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Trinidad and Tobago. 

League C (lowest ranked teams): Anguilla, Aruba, Belize, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands, and US Virgin Islands. 

 

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Canada 18 player squad has been announced.

Coach is BC's Jasmine Mander. She is a former youth player, captain of UBC 2015 National Champions and performance analyst for the senior team last year. She became u15 head last fall.

Quebec & Ontario lead with 5 each. Though, adding in dual England/Ontario Chukwu sisters (assumed), Ontario has 7. Alberta has 4 while BC continues to lag with 2.

Top club ex NDCs is Ottawa South United. Not too many defenders officially listed.

Canada is in League A: Canada, Costa Rica, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, USA, and Wales. 

Canada will play Jamaica, PR & USA. Top 2 of these nations will play top 2 of CR, Haiti, Mexico or Wales.

 

CANADA
1- GK- Noelle Henning | CAN / NDC-CDN Ontario
2- FB- Sadie Brisbin | CAN / Sherwood Park Phoenix
3- F- Mya Angus | CAN / Ottawa South United SC
4- M- Emily Wong | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC / NDC-CDN British Columbia
5- CB- Yasmine Décombe | CAN / NDC-CDN Québec
6- M- Juliette Perreault | CAN / NDC-CDN Québec
7- F- Nikolina Istocki | CAN / NDC-CDN Ontario
8- M- Taegan Stewart | CAN / Calgary Foothills SC
9- F- Annabelle Chukwu | CAN / Ottawa South United SC
10- M- Shaden Al-Asad | CAN / Calgary West SC
11- F- Sandrine Brault | CAN / AS Blainville
12- F- Isabelle Chukwu | CAN / Ottawa South United SC
13- M- Bianca Hanisch | CAN / NDC-CDN Ontario
14- F- Keira Martin | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC / NDC-CDN British Columbia
15- M- Marée-Anne van Doesburg | CAN / NDC-CDN Québec
16- M- Liana Tarasco | CAN / NDC-CDN Québec
17- M- Keelyn Stewart | CAN / Calgary Foothills SC
18- GK- Sierra Gallant | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC / NDC-CDN British Columbia

 

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League A matches are on Concacaf app only. I don't see an option to see a match replay yet. Highlights likely to be on Youtube as yesterday's League B match highlights are on there.

Canada won 5-0. Took them about 25 minutes to score. Matches are only 70 minutes. Largely dominated possession. Lots of offsides.

Istocki from Mississauga scored twice. Martin from Langley scored once and had an assist. Looks there are 2 sister combos on the team. Annabelle Chukwu scored and Taegan Stewart scored with an assist from her twin sister Keelyn Stewart. They play for the most matter of factly named club in Canada: Suburban FC in Calgary.

 

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Canada 4-1 over Puerto Rico.

Canada again took 25 minutes to score their first goal. Before the goal, Puerto Rico had the 2 best chances including an almost OG by Emily Wong. This would have made the blooper reels since there was zero Puerto Rican players in the box.

Istocki, Martin & T Stewart all scored again. And we had another twin sister combo goal with A Chuwku assisting on I Chuwku's goal. 

Hand ball off a corner kick led to Puerto Rico's penalty kick goal.

As comparison, US beat Jamaica 11-0 & Puerto Rico 12-0.

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Canada lose 1-0 to the USA. There was actually a crowd watching. Now will play Mexico in semis tomorrow.

US dominated with their usual strong attributes of strength, speed, & passing. They didn't cross as much as they normally do but the goal was scored off a cross. They didn't generate too many good chances and individually couldn't break down any Canadian player. They lost their attacking vigour in the second half.

Canada rarely had possession beyond the half way line. But had good defensive shape to keep most shots taken outside of the box. And Angus was able to keep up with their speedy winger except for a few times of which one led to the goal.

US have had 3 camps to prep for this tourney. This included a trip to Europe where they beat Germany 3-1 and the Netherlands 3-0. 3 players came from one team in Dallas. Canada has the majority of its squad playing at NDCs/Caps which can be viewed as better than camps but this tourney is their first taste of international competition.

Looking at the Canada squad from the 3 previous u15s from 2014/16/18, Huitema, Grosso & Riviere are senior team regulars & pros. Stratigakis has had senior caps and Proulx has just been selected for the first time and signed her first pro contract. Huitema played in two u15 tourneys.

Jade Rose, Walk, Ladhani, Pante, Small, Olivia Smith, Leslie & Giorgio are all on the u20 squad heading to the World Cup next week.

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5 hours ago, dyslexic nam said:

Is this game online?  Any info would be appreciated. 

It's on Concacaf's app only. One camera angle but has announcer/replays. No full match replays available. Short highlights on Concacaf's youtube channel by end of day.

Today, Canada wins on penalties 6-5 vs Mexico after scoreless 70 minutes. Canada plays the US in the final on Sunday at 1100 EDT. 

Canada was more troubled by the Mexican press than the US. Though, in the US match, Canada went for long goal kicks to bypass the press but couldn't keep possession. 

Mexico's players were also able to skirt by Canada's back line in one v one situations more than the US did. But like the US, Mexico faded in the second half. 

Canada had trouble again putting passes together. Lots of offsides again. Only two good chances created.

As seen in u17 & u20 qualifiers this year, once Canada comes up against Mexico & the US, their offensive ideas and execution dries up. And other than Maalouf, there has been no individual difference maker.

Mexico has 2/3 of their team playing in the US including at least 5 that have club mates playing on the US team. A few of them looked to have more ball skills than the US but are way behind in terms of speed, team passing, kick strength and goalkeeping.

In terms of players playing in Canada on other teams, Guyana has 1 player from Pickering FC. The majority of the Guyanese team play for Unattached FC. 

 

 

 

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Canada falls 4-1 to the US in the final.

Unlike in the first match up, Canada made self-inflicted mistakes that led to the first 2 goals. Feeble clearance in the box led to powerful shot goal but it was on the short side. Second goal came via a penalty due to an unnecessary hand ball.

Canada scores the first goal the US has let in. 3 passes led to a well placed goal by Isabelle Chukwu who just came on as a sub.

Then the US scores 2 in the last 5 on well-worked goals.

US stands apart in Concacaf women's youth football as they're the only ones who are competent in the basics. They're especially ahead in terms of efficient passing, crossing/heading, striking the ball with force & speed of play.

Mexico has started to show their technical abilities but not enough to overcome all their deficiencies elsewhere. Canada is largely competent in their own half but usually have never been good enough to break down the US and now in recent years, this has started to apply to Mexico also.

 

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