The Canadian national women's soccer team will play in the SheBelieves Cup next week, and they are saying it will not be by choice.
Yesterday, our Players' Association announced that we were taking action in response to Canada Soccer's significant cuts to our national team programs less than six months in advance of the World Cup.
Representatives of the Players' Association met with Canada Soccer this afternoon for an hours-long meeting in which the concerns of the players were discussed in detail. Prior to that meeting, Canada Soccer told us that they consider our job action to be an unlawful strike. They told us that if we did not return to work - and did not commit today to playing in Thursday's game against the United States - 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.
As individual players who have received no compensation yet for any of our work for Canada Soccer in 2022, we cannot afford the risks that personal action against us by Canada Soccer will create. Because of this, we have advised Canada Soccer that we will return to training tomorrow and will play in the SheBelieves Cup as scheduled.
We continue to believe that Canada Soccer's cuts to the national team programs - especially right before our World Cup - are unacceptable. We continue to believe that Canada Soccer needs to do more to support our programs and our players. And we continue to believe that unless we stand up together and demand more, nothing will ever change.
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