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Canada s Rhian Wilkinson, from left to right, Mexico s Renae Cuellar and Canada s Emily Zurrer vie for the ball during the first half of a women s international friendly soccer game in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday November 24, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck April 12, 2021 - 12:40 PM
After representing Canada 181 times as a player and then serving as a Canada Soccer staff coach, Rhian Wilkinson will get a different view of the Canadian women when they play England on Tuesday in Stoke-on-Trent.
Wilkinson will be in the English coaching dugout.
The 38-year-old left Canada Soccer in January to join interim England head coach Hege Riise as an assistant. Wilkinson wanted to get out of her comfort zone and add to her skill set with an eye to coaching Canada in the future.
Kristie Mewis and Jane Campbell Become Allocated USWNT Players
Five Dash players are now on North American International Contracts
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The comeback is complete. Or at the very least it must be very very close to completion. Kristie Mewis is finally one of 22 USA allocated players. After playing for three different NWSL teams in 2017, then tearing her ACL in 2018, she has finally returned to the top level of national team recognition. Should Mewis make the USA’s 18 player Olympic roster for Tokyo 2021, that’s when she can truly celebrate.
Alongside Mewis, Jane Campbell becomes just the second Houston Dash player to have a contract with the USSF since 2017(Carli Lloyd and Morgan Gautrat). The news today comes after both players played 90 minutes in the USA’s 6-0 victory over Argentina in the She Believes Cup. The emphatic win secured back-to-back tournament triumphs for the USA. The first time they have retained the trophy since its inception i
Not too many players get the chance to make their international debut against the No. 1 ranked team in the world who just also happen to be the two-time defending World Cup champions.
But that’s exactly what happened to Canadian forward Evelyne Viens last week.
Viens, a 24 year-old native of L
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