Canada’s women’s soccer team to play Brazil in Halifax, Montreal
Global News
For the first time, a Canadian national soccer team will be hosting a game in Nova Scotia. Canada Soccer said on Friday the women's team will play Brazil in Halifax and Montreal.
Two weeks after booking a trip to the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team has announced they will play two exhibition matches on home turf in preparation for next summer’s games — with an unexpected treat for soccer fans in Halifax.
The Canadian Soccer Association announced on Friday afternoon that the women’s squad, which took home a gold medal at the most recent Olympic Games in Tokyo, will play two matches against Brazil this month, first in Montreal on Oct. 28 at the Stade Saputo and again in the Nova Scotia capital on Oct. 31 at the Wanderers Grounds.
The Halifax match comes with a bit of history: It will mark the first time one of Canada Soccer’s Senior National Teams has ever played in Nova Scotia.
Derek Martin, president and founder of the Halifax Wanderers of the Canadian Premier League, expressed his excitement to witness a gold-medal team, comprised of some of the biggest names in women’s soccer, take the pitch in front of a local crowd.
“To our knowledge, this is the first time a Canadian National Soccer Team has ever played a competitive match in Nova Scotia, and it’s fitting that such a historic game be played at the Wanderers Grounds,” Martin said in a Friday press release.
“The work we’ve done to create a stadium experience at the Wanderers Grounds is what enables us to bring such an exciting match to Halifax. I know soccer fans across the East Coast will come out in numbers and show the Canadians a rocking atmosphere to cheer them on.”
In addition to making history by playing in Halifax for the first time, the match against Brazil will also be the Canadian women’s team’s first appearance in Atlantic Canada in well over a decade. Their last match in the region was held in the spring of 2012 in Monton, N.B.
