{"id":802633,"date":"2026-07-15T02:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802633\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T02:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:48:29","slug":"mimi-alidou-looking-to-be-the-creator-of-plays-for-montreal-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802633\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimi Alidou ‘looking to be the creator of plays’ for Montreal Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marie-Yasmine Alidou didn\u2019t think she\u2019d ever play professionally in front of her friends and family in Montreal, but that is now the reality for the Canadian women\u2019s national team midfielder.<\/p>\n

Alidou signed with the Northern Super League\u2019s Montreal Roses last week, bringing the 31-year-old home to play professionally in Canada for the first time. Alidou had stints in the United States, Portugal, Austria, Norway, Spain, Sweden and France before coming back north of the border after departing the Portland Thorns. <\/p>\n

She could make her debut for the club as soon as July 23, when Montreal hosts AFC Toronto. <\/p>\n

Toronto recently announced the acquisitions of Alidou\u2019s national team teammates Shelina Zadorsky and Sabrina D\u2019Angelo, who could also debut in that match, which comes days after the transfer window officially opens. France international defender \u00c8ve Perisset also signed for Montreal on the same day as Alidou, but has since suffered an injury that will delay her own debut with the club.<\/p>\n

Related Reading: Sabrina D\u2019Angelo, Shelina Zadorsky \u2018elevate\u2019 AFC Toronto with CanWNT experience, standards<\/a><\/p>\n

Alidou will look to be the creative spark for a Montreal side that sits second in the table on 21 points from 11 matches, four points back of the red-hot Ottawa Rapid FC. <\/p>\n

Elyse Bennett is tied with Ottawa\u2019s DB Pridham, another national team player, on seven goals atop the Golden Boot race, while fellow Roses attacker Tanya Boychuk is right behind them on five. Evelyn Badu has four of her own, so Alidou will be the focal point on a team full of weapons. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking to be the creator of plays, either to drive the ball forward, shoot, to assist, to calm the tempo, to speed it up,\u201d Alidou said on CBC<\/a> ahead of the Roses\u2019 1-0 win over Halifax on Sunday. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m looking to bring to the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was in the back of my mind to come back home when I heard that there was a professional team here, so it was eventually gonna come. I chose to come right now, and I think it\u2019s the perfect timing as well to come back in this professional league in Canada and also playing for the Canadian national team. I think it was the right decision for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Women\u2019s World Cup next summer and the Olympics in 2028 \u2014 potentially Alidou\u2019s final chance to go to either major competition \u2014 getting consistent playing time at a high level is crucial as she looks for even more minutes with Casey Stoney\u2019s national team as well.<\/p>\n

\"\"Courtesy: Audry Magny\/Canada Soccer<\/p>\n

It was confirmed on Tuesday that more players will have their dreams of playing professionally in Canada come true in 2027.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg was announced as the NSL\u2019s first expansion team, and seventh club overall, to begin play next year in the Manitoba capital. Co-founded by CanWNT legend Desiree Scott, the Winnipeg club\u2019s name and home venue have not yet been announced, <\/p>\n

Related Reading: Northern Super League announces Winnipeg expansion club for 2027<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marie-Yasmine Alidou didn\u2019t think she\u2019d ever play professionally in front of her friends and family in Montreal, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,282492,282493,2338,282494,44,94245,157751,1418],"class_list":["post-802633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canwnt","tag-marie-yasmine-alidou","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-roses","tag-news","tag-northern-super-league","tag-nsl","tag-womens-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802633","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=802633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}