The Canadian women have been drawn in a group with France, Nigeria and South Korea
Group C will not be easy. France finished fourth, second and third at the last three editions of the FIFA championship and defeated Germany in the final of the 2019 European Women’s Under-19 Championship.
Nigeria, runner-up in 2010 and 2014, has advanced to the knockout rounds in seven of its nine trips to the tournament. South Korea was third in 2010 and has made the quarterfinals on two of its four other visits to the championship.tap here to see other videos from our teamCosta Rica was originally slated to co-host the U-20 event in 2020 along with Panama. The tournament was postponed due to the pandemic with Costa Rica taking over as sole host.
Canada qualified for seven of the nine previous editions of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, finishing runner-up in 2002 when a Canadian team featuring a young Christine Sinclair lost to the U.S. in sudden-death extra time before 47,784 at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium. That inaugural event was competed at the U-19 level with the event subsequently switching to U-20. The Canadian women failed to qualify for the 2018 U-20 World Cup in France and did not get out of the group stage in 2016 in Papua New Guinea.To be eligible for the Costa Rica event, players must be born in 2002 or later. Canada’s 21-woman roster is drawn almost entirely from players at U.S. colleges with payers ranging in age from 17 to 20.
It marks the first FIFA youth tournament since the pandemic cancelled global tournaments in 2020 and 2021.Sierra Giorgio, Syracuse ; Anna Karpenko, Harvard University ; Coralie Lallier, NDC-CDN Quebec.Vivianne Bessette, South Florida ; Brooklyn Courtnall, USC ; Annika Leslie, West Virginia ; Mia Pante, Texas A&M ; Jade Rose, Harvard University ; Elisabeth Tse, SMU .
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