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<\/p>\nPlaying in front of a home crowd, seventh-ranked Brazil controlled play through much of the match but couldn\u2019t get a ball past Canadian goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan across the first half. <\/p>\n
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Out of the break, Canada\u2019s Evelyne Viens saw a near breakaway stymied when she was called for a soft foul after getting tangled up in midfield. <\/p>\n
Asked whether it was in fact Viens who was fouled on the play, Stoney was blunt. \u201cAbsolutely,\u201d she said. \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ball went the other way and Brazil\u2019s Kerolin Nicoli blasted a shot on net. Sheridan made the stop and defender Kadeisha Buchanan booted the ball out, but Aline Gomes collected it and sent a shot soaring into the top-right corner of the net in the 47th minute for the game\u2019s lone goal. <\/p>\n
Canada nearly responded in the 64th minute off a free kick. Jessie Fleming swung the ball in and Viens headed it toward the goal, with the ball skimming off the post. <\/p>\n
The South American nation went down to 10 players in the 82nd minute after Ary Borges was sent off with her second yellow card of the night following a hard tackle on Fleming.<\/p>\n
Canada made use of the extra space and created chances, including a shot from D.B. Pridham at the corner of the six-yard box, but failed to score.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to score,\u201d Stoney said. \u201cWe had enough chances tonight to be in the game, we just have to score. We matched them in every other area. I think we just have to score.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Canadians were playing without Jade Rose after the star defender was sent off with a red card in the country\u2019s 3-1 win over South Korea on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Canada, ranked ninth in the world, opened the tournament with a 4-0 victory over Zambia on April 11. <\/p>\n
Across the three games, the team showed its ability to play in different ways and be adaptable, Stoney said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey had to show a different side of themselves tonight, and they had to fight and show grit and determination even when things weren\u2019t going their way. And they kept fighting, and they kept trying to get a goal,\u201d said the coach. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve had two really good camps in terms of togetherness, building the identity that we want. And I think people are starting to see how we want to play now, and we need to continue that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The FIFA Series features men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams from 50 nations across 13 groups, with games being played in 12 countries.<\/p>\n
It was Canada\u2019s latest step in preparation for November\u2019s CONCACAF W Championship, which will serve as a qualifier for both the 2027 World Cup in Brazil and the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n
Preparing for those tournaments requires working on the team\u2019s culture, too, Stoney said \u2014 something they had ample time for in Brazil. <\/p>\n
The group spent lots of time together during the tournament because they couldn\u2019t leave the hotel very much, she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a challenging trip, but we came for that,\u201d she said. \u201d \u2026 We learned a lot tonight about ourselves. We learned a lot throughout this tournament. We\u2019re going to face different tests.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, yeah, I definitely think we have to continue to build on that. Culture isn\u2019t something that just happens. You have to work on it daily. And it\u2019s about behaviours and values, and the players have been really good over the last two camps.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 18, 2026.<\/p>\n
Gemma Karstens-Smith, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playing in front of a home crowd, seventh-ranked Brazil controlled play through much of the match but couldn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-614052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-central-vancouver-island","12":"tag-nanaimo","13":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news","15":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","16":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-oceanside","19":"tag-parksville","20":"tag-qualicum","21":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}