Canada wins Olympic women's soccer bronze

Sports | 383 hits | Aug 09 9:43 am | Posted by: Hyack

Canada's women's soccer team has its first medal in Olympic history. Diana Matheson scored the lone goal in the 92nd minute to lift Canada to a bronze medal win over France, Thursday at the London Olympics.

Comments

by martin14
Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:57 pm
Congrats girls, we all know you deserved gold.
by bootlegga
Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:30 pm
Congrats ladies - you may make a soccer fan out of me yet!

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by Thanos
Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:31 pm
Good. Now go, Japan, go!
by Hyack
Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:37 pm
"martin14" said
Congrats girls, we all know you deserved gold.

Totally agree although, even if we made it past the US to play Japan in the Gold medal game, I don't think the ladies would have done any better than they did in their first meeting, losing 2-0. Canada is ranked 7th in the world and it definitely shows when we play higher ranked squads, the team has improved of late, but they still have a long way to go to be able to play higher ranked teams. They had their hands full today playing France and got very lucky with Diana Matheson scoring the last minute goal in added time. If anyone deserved to score the winning goal it was Matheson, the little 5 foot nothing player has been a regular on the team for years and has always given her very best in every match.
by Freakinoldguy
Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:50 pm
Through adversity.

Well done ladies and now all of Canada waits for the ban hammer to fall. Because as we all know, FIFAss isn't going to let some North American upstarts besmirch their reputation as the bastion of fair play, tolerance and sportsmanship for the "Beautiful Game".
by Thanos
Fri Aug 10, 2012 1:33 am
Did the Americans send a spare gold medal to Norway? Wouldn't want their extra player that they had on the field to feel left out of the celebration or anything.