When the Canadian women\u0027s soccer team struck gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, it did so in a COVID\u002D19 bubble far from family and friends.
And while the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will take place in more normal conditions, with some loved ones able to make the long trip watching from the stands, weeks away from home can take its toll.Priestman is taking a page from her time as an assistant coach with England, under then-manager Phil Neville, before becoming Canada coach in November 2020.
“I think my staff will be fed up with the amount of World Cup planning workshops that we’ve done, but absolutely we’ve gone down to the hotel layout, right down to the finer detail. Everyone thinks that as a head coach that you just worry about the X’s and O’s but in countries where you’re not resourced like an England, a U.S. that might have someone like a general manager or someone doing that, you are getting down to that level of detail. But that detail does matter.
“Bev does a really good job of creating an environment where we have time to get away from the team … to bond outside of the soccer field,” goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan said. “I think that’s really important that we have that friendship outside and we have that ability to also say ‘I need some time away from you guys.’
“They’ve never been farther than Disneyland so that’s good. My brother and his wife might kill them before they get here,” she added jokingly. “My brother, he’s just not looking forward to a 17-hour flight. But I’m sure once they get here, hopefully all in one piece, they’ll have a great time.” “The ability to let the team unplug, some down time, some days where we have nothing as a team and you can go enjoy yourself,” she said. “The thing we’ve learned in the past about World Cups is they’re a long tournament. As says, it’s a marathon not a sprint and we have to save some of our energy for the end of the tournament.”
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