It is early November but like retailers across the country, Canadian women’s national team coach John Herdman is ready to get into the holiday spirit. For him and his team, a home-and-home friendly series starting today in Vancouver represents the most wonderful time of the year.
“Whenever we play the U.S., it’s like Christmas,” said Herman at a press conference earlier this week. “I guess [they are] the team everyone wants to play.”
The United States are the defending World Cup winners, and have regained their first-place FIFA world ranking. As always, they are the measuring stick against which the rest of the women’s soccer world still compares itself.