1st Olympic Victory
Courtesy Martina Franko Martina Franko Soccer
1st Olympic Victory For Canada Soccer
We won our first game of the Olympics tonight 2-1 over Argentina.
It was hot (35degrees), muggy, and polluted evening in the Tianjin Olympic Stadium. I looked as if I had taken a shower in my uniform before the game even started. You could see the dim haze of pollution in the air that was magnified by the stadium lights.
We had a shaky and ugly start to the game as we couldn’t seem to link any good passes together and we allowed Argentina to play too much. We got our act together and started pressuring hard against Argentina. Chappy (Candace Chapman) scored our first goal (the first Olympic goal of Canadian women’s soccer history) off a rocket shot outside the goalie box.
We had a lot of other chances before Kara Lang scored in the second half on a beautiful near post header. We had one breakdown in the second half and Argentina hit an unstoppable shot that hit the upper corner of the goal.
I had one goal chance in the last minute of the game and I hit the post. Frustrating.
