Cana­da's women team de­feat­ed Ko­rea Re­pub­lic 2-0 in its last in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly be­fore the Fi­fa Un­der-17 Women's World Cup which is to be held in T&T. The young Canucks jumped out to an ear­ly ad­van­tage scor­ing just two min­utes in­to the match. Cana­da com­plet­ed the scor­ing with a sec­ond goal six min­utes be­fore half time. "I thought it was a well or­gan­ised, dis­ci­plined ef­fort by our squad," said head coach Bryan Rosen­feld. "The play­ers stuck to the game plan very well. We cap­i­talised on our op­por­tu­ni­ties in the first half and we were able to shut down the Ko­re­ans in the sec­ond half. Over­all I am hap­py with the team but I know we can be bet­ter." Rosen­feld's start­ing eleven fea­tured Rachelle Bean­lands in goal, Charl�ne Achille at left back, Al­i­son Clarke and Nicole Set­ter­lund at cen­tre back, Vanes­sa Ko­vacs at right back, Di­a­mond Simp­son, Chan­tale Camp­bell and Ash­ley Lawrence in a three play­er mid­field, and Abi­gail Raymer, Haisha Can­tave, and Car­o­line Beaulne up front.

Cana­da's Lawrence scored the open­ing goal of the match in what was a ter­rif­ic start by Cana­da. Can­tave made a great di­ag­o­nal run down the Ko­re­an right and drove strong­ly to­wards the goal. She man­aged to look up and played a per­fect pass in­to the on­rush­ing Lawrence who tapped in from three yards out. Can­tave com­plet­ed a good half for Cana­da with a goal of her own in the 39th minute. This time Can­tave held off two de­fend­ers as she broke through the Ko­re­an de­fence. She kept her com­po­sure and drove a shot off the goal­keep­er and in­to the bot­tom left cor­ner. Up by two goals at half time Cana­da played an or­gan­ised and dis­ci­plined sec­ond half, frus­trat­ing the dan­ger­ous Ko­re­ans.

Rosen­feld made four sub­sti­tu­tions in the match; Ko­vacs was re­placed by Jade Ko­vace­vic in the 35th minute, Can­tave was re­placed by Kin­ley Mc­Ni­coll at half time, and Lawrence and Beaulne were re­placed by Nour Ghoneim and Za­kiya McIn­tosh in the 69th. Cana­da com­plet­ed its fi­nal prepa­ra­tions in Sun­rise, Flori­da be­fore trav­el­ling to T&T this evening. Cana­da opens its tour­na­ment against Ghana on Sep­tem­ber 6. Its oth­er Group D match­es are against Re­pub­lic of Ire­land on Sep­tem­ber 9 and Brazil on Sep­tem­ber 13. This year will mark Cana­da's sec­ond con­sec­u­tive ap­pear­ance at the event fol­low­ing its par­tic­i­pa­tion at New Zealand 2008.