Canada’s national soccer team will face France
Canada’s national soccer team will face France on its way to the Copa America 2024 to be held in the United States.
The soccer summer continues to take shape and some of the teams that will participate in both the Copa America and the European Championship continue to add preparation games in order to arrive in the best possible shape for these competitions.
In this context, the Canadian national team will face France, in a high-level match that will provide many positive aspects.
One of these teams is the Canadian national team, which, although it is still uncertain who will be its new coach, managed to close an important friendly match against none other than the French national team.
The squad led by Didier Deschamps will host this friendly match in the city of Bordeaux, where both teams are facing the final stretch of their preparation for the Copa America and the European Championship, respectively.
Canada’s national soccer team will face France and it will surely be an ideal match to present its ideal team for the top American competition.
The game will take place on Sunday, June 9 at The Matmut Atlantique, in Bordeaux, France, a city that will mark the preliminary match for Deschamps’ squad and led by Mbappé before departing for Germany for Euro 2024.
While Canada will do the same, this being their last game before making their Copa America debut against Argentina on June 20 at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
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Canada’s national soccer team will face France also the Netherlands
Prior to this game, Canada will play on June 6 against the Netherlands, a team that is also preparing for Euro 2024.
The match will take place at the home of Feyenoord in Rotterdam.
Following the departure of John Herdman as coach of the Canadian national team. The Maple Leaf country continues its search for a new coach, with several names on the list of possible options.
Among them is Frank Lampard, who is a possibility to take the reins of this team, which includes the likes of Alphonso Davies, Jonathan David, Tajon Buchanan, among other great players who were part of the feat of qualifying for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
Canada will face France and the various leaders of the Canadian team have praised the importance they will have not only for the Copa América, but also for the 2026 World Cup, in which they will host.
“It is a great achievement for our team to secure a friendly match against a top five team in the world. It demonstrates the ambitions we have as an organization for our players and supporters as we prepare for major events such as the Copa America 2024 and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. By playing against the best teams, like ‘Les Bleus’, we will grow as a soccer nation,” said director of operations Mathieu Chamberland to his own website.
This will not be the first time Canada has faced France and the Netherlands.
They faced France in the group stage of the 1970 Mexico World Cup, losing 1-0.
They met the Netherlands in 1994 in a friendly in which they lost 3-0.
