The 🇨🇦 women’s soccer team has punched its ticket to Tokyo.
CARSON, Calif. — Canada qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Costa Rica on Friday, thanks to a 72nd-minute goal by teenager Jordyn Huitema in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship.
The soccer women are the seventh Canadian team to qualify for Tokyo, joining the women’s rugby sevens, softball and water polo squads and the men’s field hockey, rugby sevens and volleyball sides.Canada’s previous high at a non-boycotted Games was five — excluding the 1976 Olympics in Montreal when the country sent nine teams as host.
Canada has finished runner-up to the U.S. in the last three CONCACAF Olympic qualifiers and won bronze at the last two Olympics after exiting in the quarterfinals in Beijing in 2008. Mexico defeated Canada in the 2004 CONCACAF qualifier semifinals, denying the Canadians a trip to the Athens Games. Sinclair, the world’s all-time leading goal-scorer, came into the game on goal No. 186 with 11 of those having come against Costa Rica. The 36-year-old from Burnaby, B.C., was honoured before Friday’s game at a ceremony with CONCACAF president Victor Montagliani, a fellow Canadian.
Canada dominated possession early but was unable to turn that advantage into goal-scoring chances. The first shot on goal didn’t come until the 28th minute, a long-range Costa Rican attempt in an unsuccessful bid to catch Labbe out of position.
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