Canada bounced from U-20 soccer tourney
Canada is leaving the world womens under-20 soccer championship earlier than ever before.
And the fact that the Canadian women put on their best showing of the tournament in a 1-0 loss to favoured China on Wednesday will do little to ease the long flight home.
Canada (1-2-0) finished third in Group B behind China (3-0-0) and Nigeria (2-1-0). Only the top two in the group advance to the quarter-finals.
Nigeria cruised by Canada into second spot by thumping winless Finland 8-0.
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Two superb late strikes cost Canada its opener at the under-20 womens world soccer championships Thursday.
Cynthia Uwak scored twice in the last eight minutes - her second in injury time - to lead Nigeria to a dramatic 3-2 victory over Canada in the opening game for both teams at world womens tournament.
I think it was two real special goals by Nigeria, the second and the third that were our undoing, said Canadian coach Ian Bridge. The game is about scoring goals and they scored two great ones there.
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Stalteri returns
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With 50 caps, the veteran right back is the most experienced international player on a Canadian squad that will face Jamaica in a friendly Monday at the Claude Robillard Stadium (4 p.m. ET).
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Monroe native works to bring soccer balls to South Africa
When Monroe native Megan Evans visited Gugulethu, South Africa, last summer, she saw families living elbow-to-elbow in cardboard shanties.
Outside, barefoot kids kicked around flat soccer balls in the dirt.
Evans, a 17-year-old senior at Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts, knew there wasn't much she could do to improve the ramshackle housing.
But the soccer balls were a different matter.
"When we were traveling, we asked this little boy, 'What do you want most from America?' And he was like, 'Soccer ball!' And we asked all the other kids, and they
Air Canada says it will offer the airline industry's first-ever subscription to unlimited flights.
The price of the two-month pass is $6,998, plus tax.
The Montreal-based carrier (TSX:ACE.B) said Tuesday its new North America Unlimited Pass lets pass holders fly as often as they wish - for a two-month period from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 - to more than 100 destinations served by Air Canada and subsidiary Air Canada Jazz in Canada and the continental United States.
The pass will be available for purchase for two weeks starting Wednesday.
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