{"id":823824,"date":"2026-07-24T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823824\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:32:09","slug":"canada-hires-eleri-earnshaw-as-womens-team-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823824\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada hires Eleri Earnshaw as women\u2019s team assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Canada Soccer logo.DARRYL DYCK\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canada Soccer hired Eleri Earnshaw as an assistant coach with the senior women\u2019s national team on Friday.<\/p>\n

Earnshaw joins head coach Casey Stoney\u2019s staff ahead of the 2026 CONCACAF W Qualifiers, which determine spots at the 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old from Wales spent the past five seasons with National Women\u2019s Soccer League club Angel City FC, most recently as assistant coach.<\/p>\n

She has also coached at the collegiate and international levels, working with the Welsh women\u2019s national team and the United States women\u2019s under-20 team.<\/p>\n

Before embarking on her coaching career, she played for England\u2019s Arsenal and Barnet before continuing her professional career in the United States.<\/p>\n

Earnshaw also earned 21 senior caps for Wales.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited to join Canada Soccer and to work with Casey and the staff,\u201d Earnshaw said in a statement. \u201dThis is a team with high standards and a clear ambition, and I\u2019m looking forward to being part of the environment, getting to know the players and contributing to the work ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stoney said Earnshaw bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really pleased to have her join our coaching staff. She\u2019ll bring a lot to the environment we\u2019re continuing to build, both on and off the pitch, and I\u2019m confident she\u2019ll make a great contribution to the group,\u201d Stoney said. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to having her with us and to seeing the impact she\u2019ll have with this team.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The Canada Soccer logo.DARRYL DYCK\/The Canadian Press Canada Soccer hired Eleri Earnshaw as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-823824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823824","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=823824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}