B.C. soccer fans get to salute goalkeeping ‘Minister of Defence,’ Canada’s gold\u002Dmedal win, Christine Sinclair’s goal\u002Dscoring mark.
Labbé’s cool, composed and gritty performance in the Olympics will go down as one of the best ever — men or women — in Canadian history. A broken rib forced her to miss one game, but she bounced back to stymie Brazil on penalty kicks in the quarter-finals — despite a hard fall at the end of extra time — then stomped out the Americans in the semifinals. Her cool, smiling, shot-stopping show in the final against Sweden cemented her legacy.
The most-watched event in Canada from the Tokyo Games was the Canadian women’s final against Sweden, with. In the 2015 Women’s World Cup at B.C. Place, the event set an attendance record with 1,353,506 spectators, with seven games cracking the 50,000 mark and more than 54,000 watching Canada take on England in the quarter-finals.
“This team has multiple times showed up on the world stage and gone and got results, and it’s about time that this team is treated in the way that they deserve,” said Labbé.Article content “You can’t deny, you can’t ignore that when this team play, people watch. The more people that can watch the game the better, because that’s important for our country. If we are going to say we’re a soccer country, I think these games be picked up.”
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