June 10, 2018 Canada Soccer--Canada vs Germany Women's International Friendly (by Rocket Robin)

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Result and details of the Sunday June 10, 2018 Women's International Friendly between Canada and Germany
played at Tim Horton's Field in Hamilton Ontario at 2:00pm.

Canada (all red, white names and numbers)

.......................1 Stephanie Labbe
5 Rebecca Quinn...11 Desiree Scott...3 Kadeisha Buchanan...4 Shelina Zadorsky
16 Janine Beckie...8 Diana Matheson...17 Jessie Fleming...10 Ashley Lawrence
...........12 Christine Sinclair (cpt)...13 Sophie Schmidt

Subs:...18 Erin McLeod (gk)...2 Allysha Chapman (def)...6 Deanne Rose (mid)...7 Julia Grosso (def)
...15 Nichelle Prince (fwd)...19 Adriana Leon (fwd)...20 Shannon Woeller (def)...22 Lindsay Agnew (def)
...23 Emma Regan (def)
head coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller

Germany (all white, black names and numbers)

......................12 Lisa Schmitz
3 Kathrin Hendrich...15 Sara Doorsoun...6 Kristin Demann...27 Carolin Simon
19 Svenja Huth...20 Lina Magull...18 Melanie Leupolz...17 Verena Faibt
............28 Lena Petermann...7 Lea Schuller

1 Almuth Schult (gk)...21 Carina Schluter (gk)...4 Leonie Maier...5 Joelle Wedemeyer (def)
...13 Sara Dabritz (mid)...16 Linda Dallmann (mid)...22 Turid Knaak (fwd)...23 Hasret Kayikci (fwd)
...25 Felicitas Rauch (mid)
head coach Horst Hrubesch

Game officials:...referee Qin Lian (China)...assistant referees Cui Yong Mei (China) and Bao Meng Xiao (China)
...fourth official Carol-Anne Chenard (Canada)...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)
match commissioner Joe Guest (England), gerneral coordinator Jesse Daly (Canada), media officer Brad Fougere (Canada)

1st Half:...gaems starts 2:10pm...Canada defends sourth end.
1 min...Germany Svenja Huth GOAL...Ger Lena Petermann at 60 yards rolls the ball forward past Can Kedeisha Buchanan
and finds Ger Svenja Huth in alone at 45 yards in the middle between Can Shelina Zadorsky and Can Rebecca Quinn. As those
two defenders close in to catch her at 25 yards Zadorsky pokes the ball away but over to the right where Huth recovers
just inside box and shoots a low 20-yarder past Zadorsky into the left corner of the net past goalie Stephanie Labbe.
3 min...Can Beckie cornerkick from right has Can Sinclair twist 8 yard header from left post wide left.
6 min...Ger throw-in from right is worked into box but defenders eventually clear stopping Ger Petermann. Ger Huth recross
from right has defender clear out left side of box.
8 min...Ger Huth runs ball over right end line before she can send in cross.
9 min...Ger Huth in middle chips 25 yarder over defender but goalie catches on bounce when no Ger players charge into box.
10 min...Can Lawrence wins cornerkick when she can't cross after a run down left wing.
11 min...Can Beckie cornerkick from left has Can Schmidt head 7 yarder that defender on left post deflects wide of post.
11 min...Can Beckie cornerkick from left is over box and then is crossed in from right has a player twist a header wide
left from 12 yards.
12 min...Can Sinclair gets 15 yard shot up middle is blocked after receiving cross from right.
15 min...Can Fleming chips 35 yarder that bounces to goalie when Can player holds back so she won't be offside.
16 min...Can Buchanan pushes over Ger Huth on right side of box on run.
17 min...Ger Simon rolls freekick from 22 yards near right edge of box out for Ger Magull on right who blasts 22 yarder well over net.
19 min...Can Quinn 45 yard freekick from right to crowd of players outside box but they can't work it in.
20 min...Ger Huth cross from right after run has Can Buchanan clear in middle of box at 8 yards to prevent Ger getting ball.
21 min...Can goalie is out to head away ball for throw-in at top right corner of box.
21 min...Can Zadorsky gets awy with tackle just inside box on Ger Huth without giving away a Penalty kick on right side.
22 min...Ger Huth pass on rigtht to Ger Schuller to cross from right and Ger Petermann heads 8 yarder that goalie at 6 yards
swats wide left for cornerkick.
24 min...Ger Faibt cornerkick from left is through bo. Ger Leupolz shot from 15 yards on right is into webbing of net.
26 min...Ger Doorsoun clearance of ball at 20 yards deflects off Can Sinclair and goalie is out to edge of box has ball bounce
just wide left of post.
28 min...Ger Schuller run on left crosses to Ger Huth one-touch 15 yard shot from right that defender stops at 7 yards.
30 min...Can Beckie long run down right and low cross has Ger Demann deflect it for cornerkick.
30 min...Can Beckie cornerkick from right has defender head out left side of box. Can Buchanan low recross from 15 yards has
ball deflect off defender and rolls to goalie.
38 min...Ger goalie out to 25 yards on left to beat Can Sinclair to through ball pass.
39 min...Ger Leupolz low cross from 18 yards on right jus outside box has Can Quinn clear in center of box at 8 yards.
40 min...Ger sub...Maier replaces Simon.
40 min...Can Buchanan tugs over Ger Magull too easily and no Penalty kick on run in right side of box is called.
41 min...Can Fleming and Can Beckie combo play up left wing is puhces over end line for goalkick.
43 min...Can Beckie shot from 22 yards on left has goalie bat down and pick up at 5 yards.
44 min...Can Schmidt can't quite bash through on 1 on 3 rush and has shot blocked at 18 yards.
46 min...half ends 3:56pm.

2nd Half:...starts 3:11pm.
halftime subs:...Ger Dabritz replaces Leupolz.
...............Ger Schluter replaces Schmitz in goal.
45 min...Ger Schuller needs trainer for injury at Can 50 yard line.
47 min...Ger Huth rolls ball from left into box and Can Buchanan clears. A miscue has Ger Huth able to cross again and ball
is cleared.
52 min...Ger goalie clears out right for throw-in to beat two Can players.
53 min...Can Lawrence and Can Scott can't get away shot in box at 15 yards with defenders preventing both attempts.
54 min...Ger Petermann is called for handball on edge of Can box when receiving pass and popping it up.
56 min...Ger goalie is out to 22 yards to beat Can Matheson to through ball pass to middle.
57 min...Ger YELLOW card...Dabritz earns it for knocking over Can Beckie on run down right.
58 min...Canada Christine Sinclair GOAL...Can Janine Beckie’s free kick from 25 yards on the right is bent into a charging
crowd of players at the edge of the six-yard box. A defender heads the ball down and to the left where it bounces off
Can Rebecca Quinn. Christine Sinclair turns back and pokes the ball to the 15 yard line on the left and Quinn spins and sends
in a cross. The ball eventually falls to Sinclair at on the left side of the net and she pops a header over goalie Carina Schluter.
59 min...Can Sinclair is injured at Can 40 yard line on check.
61 min...Ger Dabritz gets to loose ball at 25 yards and and shot up middle from slight left is caught by goalie.
62 min...Ger Huth run up right but 12 yard shot from far right deflects off sliding defender then off Huth for goalkick.
64 min...Can Beckie gets to ball she pokes past defender on run up right but low cross on right end line is picked up by goalie.
65 min...Ger sub...Wedemeyer replaces Magull.
66 min...Ger goalie clears backpass off Can Schmidt but ball deflects back to her at 12 yards.
67 min...Ger goalie is out to 25 yards to beat Can Schmidt up middle.
67 min...Canada Jessie Fleming GOAL...Can Sophie Scmidt intercepts a back pass at 25 yard line by stepping in front
of a defender, then turns and sends a low cross between two defenders just outside the box. Sinclair with another
defender in front of her dummies the pass and lets the ball roll through. Jessie Fleming stops the ball, steps forward,
and shoots low between Joelle Wedemeyer’s legs and into the left corner of the net past the goalie doing the splits six yards out.
69 min...Germany Sara Dabritz GOAL...Dabritz rushes up the right from 50 yards out and from with Buchanan closing
in on her she blasts a shot into the top right side of the net over the flying goalie.
71 min...Can goalie slides forward at 12 yards to clear poor backpass ahead of Ger Schuller at 12 yards on right. A trainer is needed
for a Germ player outside the box.
72 min...Can sub...Prince replaces Matheson.
........Can sub...Chapman replaces Schmidt.
74 min...Can Beckie wins cornerkick in race with Ger Wedemeyer on rush on right.
74 min...Can Beckie cornerkick from left is low and Can Zadorsky deflects ball from left wide left of net.
75 min...Can Prince beats Ger Wedemeyer on rush on right and cross has Ger Hendrich clears before Can Sinclair can play at 12 yards
in middle.
78 min...Ger Maier cross from 25 yards on left has Can Zadorsky flick away clearance with head.
79 min...Can Beckie conerkick from left is over players in box.
79 min...Can Buchanan betas two defenders near right end line and centers ball but defender clears in 6 yard box.
81 min...Ger Petermann wins freekick at 20 yards up middle after third time she's knocked down.
82 min...Ger sub...Knaak replaces Schuller.
83 min...Ger Turid Knaak GOAL...Ger Sara Dabritz shoots 20-yard free kick around the six man wall and the flying goalie gets
a hand to push it into the left post where it deflects back across the box. Knaak heads in into the open net from three yards out.
84 min...Can can't win cornerkick on rush up left.
87 min...Ger Faibt cross from 30 yards on left has Ger Knaak stutter step deflects 6 yarder just wide right of post after short run.
87 min...Ger sub...Kayikci replaces Huth.
88 min...Can sub...Leon replaces Scott.
89 min...Can Leon rush up right beating defenders but can't draw Penalty kick when turning into box.
89 min...Can YELLOW card...Leon earns it for flattening Ger player who then needs trainer.
92 min...Can YELLOW card...Buchanan earns it for collision with Ger player at Can 35 yard line.
92 min...Can goalie catches resulting freekick in crowd of players.
93 min...Ger Dabritz rolls pass to Ger Faibt and she rolls 20 yard shot wide right betwee fallen Ger players for goalkick.
93 min...game ends 3:59pm.

Final Score:...Canada.....2......Germany......3....

Attendance was a sellout crowd of 22,826 at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton on this mild and sunny day with a strong breeze
from the north. One year ago less a day, Canada drew 20,628 to BMO Field in Toronto for a 6-0 win against Costa Rica.

This was a game of the FIFA’s third- and fourth-ranked women’s teams (Germany and Canada, respectively). The Germans were using
a “B” team, though, so I was told (I don’t follow them closely). All the German players in this game play in the German league.
Canada was assembled a few days ago and has three players in this league but also ten in the NWSL, two from NCAA schools,
two in France, two from the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite, and goalie Stephanie Labbe, who’s not attached to any club
at the moment. A colleague at my workplace said she saw the German team touring Niagara Falls on Friday afternoon.

Canada was using a new 3-5-2 formation but were badly burned less than a minute into the game when Kedeisha Buchanan was caught
upfield. After that they settled down and both teams played fairly evenly. Canada even took the lead but the next minute
Germany ran upfield and tied it then scored the winner with less than ten minutes to go.

This was Christine Sinclair’s 173rd international goal and she has retired American star Abby Wambach’s record of 184 in her sights.
At the press conference (where the record wasn’t mentioned) new head coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller and captain Sinclair said they
were happy to have this Tier 1 competition as it will set them up well for World Cup qualifying. Heiner-Moller also praised
goalscorer Jessie Fleming and 72nd-minute sub Nichelle Prince who he said was a good impact player and was more dangerous coming
off the bench. He was happy with Canada’s resilience to catch up and take the lead. Sinclair said the team was in a good space
and adding a new formation (3-5-2) adds another dimension and they expect to qualify.

Elsewhere on Sunday, the Canadian U-17s lost their CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Championship semi-final game against Mexico in Florida
and have one more chance with a must-win game against Haiti. Canada faced a similar situation earlier this year in a third place
game which they lost, and failed to qualify for the U-20 Women's World Cup. Jordyn Huitema who has earned some senior caps for
Canada was at this tournament. This tourney was rescheduled to finish in Florida after a delay because of civil unrest in Nicaragua
or she might have been in Hamilton today.

Best substitution was the German's bringing in Turid Knaak at 82 minutes and then having a freekick within a minute and the ball
deflecting off the post and across the goalmouth to the opposite corner for Knaak to head a 3 yarder into the open net.

This is the only game for Canada’s senior women’s team until World Cup qualifying starts in early October with Canada getting a bye
until the final eight. The Germans don’t have another match scheduled in the near future. I was surprised they were here and didn’t
play the top-ranked USA. Still, it’s better than the Canadian men’s team who have let the latest FIFA window go by without one game.
The USA men's has had three matches in the last two weeks. A home game in Philadelphia against Ecuador then overseas to play
Republic of Ireland and then France.

I talked to Cyle Larin, who was at the Sigma FC League 1 Ontario game on Saturday about Canada missing an opportunity and he could
only shrug. Canada will be in the new CONCACAF Nations League starting in September which will at least force them to play
internationals. I asked officials at Soccer Canada watching the women’s game about this. Their answer was that Canada did play
New Zealand. Hmm... but that was back on March 24! The home games Canada will play are not great draws — U.S. Virgin Islands
and St. Kitts and Nevis. I suggested this might be a hard sell and would they consider playing in somewhere like New Brunswick
but she said something like that hasn't been discussed.

I arrived well before the game and remembered coming to a stadium beside Tim Horton's Field. It had a grass field and
wooden stands and a capacity of maybe 5000. I was walking around the fan expo which was right on the site I remembered
and asking different people setting up the booths--first asking if they were longtime Hamilton residents. No one could remember
it. I started to feel like the character in the movie where Gregory Peck can't convince anyone he may have seen a murder.
Finally I crossed the street to some houses and a couple working in their front garden could remember there was such
a structure.

The fan expo had a booth for the Hamilton Ti-Cats/Hamilton unnamed CanPL team, a local radio station, and a Toyota booth
offering autographs from CWNT player and bronze medal winner Jonelle Foligno (also played for Toronto Lady Lynx!).
I was wearing my York 9 t-shirt but didn't have time to mingle with any Hamilton CanPL fans as I had to make sure I was
accredited at a specific time and a specific gate. The picture at the bottom of this story is a view of the fan expo.
The longer line is the one for autographs with Foligno. A Google search after I went home shows the stadium was
called Brian Timmis Stadium and it was demolished in 2013. I also looked up on my own site that I was at a playoff
game between Hamilton Croatia and Toronto Croatia back in 2010 at that stadium.

Before the game awards were given out to two players. Stephanie Labbe won a plaque for 'Save of the Year' from a fan vote
sponsered by Allstate Insurance. She had two of the six nominations of the Canadian Men's and Women's goalies so even more
impressive as she beat the possible vote splitting. Candace Chapman received a plaque for being inducted into the
Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame. (She played for Toronto Inferno--the predecessor of Toronto Lady Lynx). She was the first
interview I ever had published for the July/August 2002 issue of Inside Soccer Magazine. Yikes--A bi-monthly publication!
How times have changed in the age of the internet. Tomasz Radzinski is the male inductee this year.

Rocket Robin
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