Canadian women to face World Cup champion Spain in 1st match since Olympic quarterfinal loss | CBC Sports

Canadian women to face World Cup champion Spain in 1st match since Olympic quarterfinal loss | CBC Sports

The sixth-ranked Canadian women will face World Cup champion Spain in an international friendly next month. Third-ranked Spain will host Canada on Oct. 25 at Estadio Francisco de la Hera in Almendralejo. The game will be the first for the Canadian women since the Paris Olympics, where they lost to Germany in a quarterfinal penalty…

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Chile 62: The “impossible” World Cup that was almost destroyed by the worst earthquake in history | Football | Sports

Chile 62: The “impossible” World Cup that was almost destroyed by the worst earthquake in history | Football | Sports

It is practically impossible to hold a World Cup today like the one held in Chile in 1962. A country that, two years earlier, suffered the largest earthquake in contemporary history in Valdivia, a 9.5-magnitude tremor that killed more than 2,000 people. The book Spain in the last romantic world cup, The book by Chilean…

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