Canada drawn with France, Nigeria and South Korea at FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup
Canada has been drawn in a bunch with France, Nigeria and South Korea on the FIFA U-20 Ladies’s World Cup in Costa Rica this summer season.
The 16-team match runs Aug. 10-28 with video games in San Jose and Alajuela.
Canada was the final staff picked on the draw, held on the Teatro Nacional with Costa Rican soccer icons Shirley Cruz and Paulo Cesar Wanchope as draw assistants.
Group C can be difficult for Canada. France completed fourth, second and third on the final three editions of the FIFA championship and defeated Germany within the last of the 2019 European Ladies’s Below-19 Championship.
Nigeria, runner-up in 2010 and 2014, has superior to the knockout rounds in seven of its 9 journeys to the match. South Korea was third in 2010 and has made the quarterfinals on two of its 4 different visits to the championship.
The Canadian girls certified in March after they beat Puerto Rico 2-0 within the third-place sport on the CONCACAF U-20 Ladies’s Championship within the Dominican Republic.
The Canadian girls misplaced their first crack at qualifying for the World Cup after they had been crushed 1-0 by Mexico within the CONCACAF semifinal. However they made no mistake within the third-place sport, securing the final spot out there.
Canada had outscored its opposition 30-0 in profitable 5 straight on the match previous to working into the Mexicans.
Canada’s Anna Karpenko was named high goalkeeper on the match.
The U.S. retained its CONCACAF title with a 2-0 win over Mexico in a battle of 6-0-0 groups within the championship sport.
The 16 certified groups had been allotted to 4 pots of 4 groups every, based mostly on a rating created in line with previous sporting efficiency, for Thursday’s World Cup draw. The Canadians had been in Pot 4 together with Australia, Colombia and the Netherlands.
Pot 1 included host Costa Rica and the three highest seeds – Germany, Japan and France.
Group A consists of Costa Rica, Australia, Spain and Brazil whereas Group B is made up of Germany, Colombia, New Zealand and Mexico. Group D options Japan, the Netherlands, Ghana and the U.S.
Costa Rica was initially slated to co-host the occasion in 2020 together with Panama. The match was postponed as a result of pandemic with Costa Rica taking up as sole host.
The Canadian staff is coached by coach Cindy Tye, a former Canadian worldwide who doubles as coach of the Dalhousie girls’s staff.
Canada has certified for seven of the 9 earlier editions of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, ending runner-up in 2002 when a Canadian staff that includes a younger Christine Sinclair misplaced to the U.S. in sudden-death further time earlier than 47,784 at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium.
That inaugural occasion was competed on the U-19 stage with the occasion subsequently switching to U-20. The Canadian girls did not qualify for the 2018 U-20 World Cup in France and didn’t get out of the group stage in 2016 in Papua New Guinea.
Canada hosted the occasion in 2014, dropping to Germany within the quarterfinals.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Could 5, 2022.
