Canada women’s team calls off strike and will play at SheBelieves Cup

Canada’s women’s national team will now take part in the forthcoming SheBelieves Cup tournament after the threat of legal action by Canada Soccer forced the players to drop a planned strike.

The players are now obliged to attend media events in the United States ahead of the competition that gets underway on 16 February.

Last Friday, the players released a statement saying that the federation was not properly supporting the team, five months from the start of the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup which gets underway in New Zealand-Australia in July.

One of the first to react was Christine Sinclair with the captain stating. “Let’s speak clearly. We are forced to return to work at short notice. This is not over. We will continue fighting for everything we deserve and we will win. SheBelieves is being played in protest,” she wrote on her Twitter profile.

Canada is one of the most experienced teams in women’s soccer globally with player’s complaining that they have yet to receive any compensation from the Federation for their activity in 2022.

Canada will face the USWNT in Orlando on Friday in the first of their SheBelives Cup games before facing Brazil and Japan in the annual four team tournament.