{"id":40749,"date":"2023-11-24T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=40749"},"modified":"2023-11-24T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T11:05:00","slug":"fall-rivers-gallant-represents-canada-in-u-17-womens-soccer-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=40749","title":{"rendered":"Fall River&#8217;s Gallant represents Canada in U-17 women&#8217;s soccer friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> Two Nova Scotia Under-17 women\u2019s soccer players, including one from Fall River, represented the country in a two-match friendly with Canada Soccer against Portugal Nov 21 and Nov. 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sierra Gallant, a goalie from Suburban FC who calls Fall River home and represented the province at the 2022 Canada Games, and Bridget Mutipula were among the 21-player roster squad that took to the pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Emma Humphries-coached squad came together for a training camp in Troia, Portugal, from November 14-19, and then played in Lisbon against Portugal Nov. 21 and Nov. 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portugal won the first game 2-0, and it was a 2-0 Canada in the Nov. 23 game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;8&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humphries was excited about the group of young players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have\u202fa talented group of young players that are ready for a test against an experienced European opposition,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be the first time Canada Soccer\u2019s Women\u2019s U-17 National Team come together since qualifying for the 2024 Concacaf Women\u2019s Under-17 Championship this past August, when Canada finished first in the three-nation round robin Group F series by winning 21-0 against Dominica and 9-0 against Bermuda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024 Concacaf Women\u2019s Under-17 Championship will act as a qualifying competition for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup. Canada will face Puerto Rico on February 2, Panama on February 4, and USA on February 6 in Toluca, Mexico.&nbsp;\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] FALL RIVER: Two Nova Scotia Under-17 women\u2019s soccer players, including one from Fall River, represented the country in a two-match friendly with Canada Soccer against Portugal Nov 21 and Nov. 23. Sierra Gallant, a goalie from Suburban FC who calls Fall River home and represented the province at the 2022 Canada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5776,2,50,5777,334,277,278],"class_list":["post-40749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-canada-u-17-womens-soccer","tag-fall-river","tag-halifax","tag-sierra-gallant","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-n-s","tag-suburban-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}