Japan Wimps Out; Canada, USA to Get Each Other Sick
By: David | May 12th, 2009Apparently, the people in charge of the Japanese Soccer program don’t read this here soccerblog.
Because even though Eriko Arakawa has been playing soccer in the United States for a few months — all without catching the swine flu — the Asian powerhouse has canceled appearances scheduled for next week in the US and Canada. Cuz they don’t wanna get sick.
Filling the void left by the Fraidy Cats, Canada and the United States womens teams will instead play each other on Monday, May 25, in Toronto. And this probably isn’t going to work out too well for the Proud FCGP Lions.
On the one hand, Rachel Buehler won’t have to play in four games over eight days that the earlier schedule might have required. On the other hand, I don’t see how national team call-ups Buehler, Nicole Barnhart, and Christine Sinclair are going to play Sunday, May 24, against the LA Sol (4:00 pm PDT kickoff) and still be in Toronto for the 4:00 pm PDT kickoff on Monday.
So while FCGP is practically giving away tickets to the big match-up against Los Angeles, it seems like they’ll be without a key offensive weapon and their best defensive players (which may not be saying too much) for the match.
And back-up goalie Meagan McCray is out of commission with a month-long shoulder injury, that leaves Allison Whitworth on real back-up duty without a backup herself if Barnhart is called up. Oh, and someone named Marta will not be on national team duty that weekend.
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