{"id":684666,"date":"2026-05-21T18:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684666\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:24:23","slug":"canadas-womens-soccer-squad-to-visit-costa-rica-for-friendly-in-june-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684666\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s women&#8217;s soccer squad to visit Costa Rica for friendly in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada\u2019s women\u2019s soccer team will face Costa Rica in a friendly game next month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The ninth-ranked Canadians will head to San Jose, Costa Rica, for a training camp on May 31, then take on the host nation in Cartago on June 9. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Head coach Casey Stoney says in a release that the window will give the group an \u201copportunity to spend valuable time together on the pitch and continue building on the work we\u2019ve done to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The game will mark the 19th meeting between the national squads, and Canada holds an 18-0- 0 record across the previous matchups. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The two sides last faced off in Toronto back in June 2025 when the home country took a 4-1 victory in Stoney\u2019s first game as head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadians are preparing 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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCosta Rica is a quality opponent that will present a different type of test and allow us to continue developing as a team as we prepare for the competitions ahead,\u201d Stoney said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s women\u2019s soccer team will face Costa Rica in a friendly game next month. The ninth-ranked Canadians will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-684666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684666","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=684666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}