The Canada women's soccer team will return to training from Sunday and play at next week's SheBelieves Cup because of the threat of facing legal action from governing body Canada Soccer, they said.
Canada, the reigning Olympic champions, are due to face the United States in their first game of the SheBelieves Cup, which begins on Feb. 16, with Brazil and Japan also participating.on Friday the team would go on strike with immediate effect because of pay equity concerns and budget cuts by Canada Soccer.
But the team said on Saturday that Canada Soccer considered their job action to be "an unlawful strike" and would take legal action if the players did not return to training and commit to playing in Thursday's game against the U.S. In a statement, Canada Soccer said "the players, while having taken job action, were not and are not in a legal strike position under Ontario labour law."
The team statement read: "... They would not only take legal action to force us back to the pitch, but would consider taking steps to collect what could be millions of dollars in damages from our Players' Association and from each of the individual players currently in camp.
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