Christine Sinclair leads Canada squad featuring 7 teenagers on European tour
TORONTO — Captain Christine Sinclair will lead a 22-woman Canadian squad that features seven teenagers to Europe in April for a pair of testing matches against Germany and Sweden.
The European trip features a reunion of last summer’s medallists in Rio, where Germany won gold, Sweden silver and Canada bronze.
The fifth-ranked Canadian women play No. 6 Sweden on April 6 in Trelleborg and top-ranked Germany on April 9 in Erfurt.
“Not very often you get a chance to face silver and gold medallists from the Olympics in consecutive matches,” Herdman said. “The two-day turnaround to Germany, it’s going to be tough. But at the end of the day, three years out from our Women’s World Cup, we’ll take these tough games as early as we can to test the depth of that squad and also just keep building that T1 (Tier 1) experience.”