Canada Defeats Costa Rica For Third Place

Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Women’s World Cup Team defeated Costa Rica 4-0 for third at the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament on Friday, March 5, 2004 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
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​Forward Christine Sinclair scored two, midfielder Charmaine Hooper and forward Aysha Jamani added goals for a Canadian victory.
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​Vancouver native, Andrea Neil earned her 100th cap for Canada, second only to Hooper.
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​Goalkeepers Karina LeBlanc and Erin McLeod shared the shutout.
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​Canada was knocked out of the 2004 Olympics earlier this week after a 2-1 loss to Mexico on Wednesday. Joining Mexico in the Olympics is the United States who defeated Mexico 3-2 in the final.
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​March 5, 2004 – CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying – Semi-final
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​Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero – Costa Rica
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​Canada 4(2)
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​Costa Rica 0(0)
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​Cautions: Canada – Hooper (38), Tancredi (66), Nault (83); Costa Rica – Trujillo (17), Salazar (28)
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​Goals: Canada – Sinclair (20,78), Hooper (43), Jamani (58)
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​CAN: 1-Karina LeBlanc (22-Erin McLeod, 69); 5-Andrea Neil (4-Veronique Maranda, 55), 7-Isabelle Morneau, 8-Marie-Eve Nault, 10-Charmaine Hooper-C, 11-Randee Hermus, 12-Christine Sinclair, 13-Diana Matheson, 14-Aysha Jamani, 15-Kara Lang (9-Rhian Wilkinson, 54), 17-Melissa Tancredi.
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​Head Coach: Even Pellerud
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​CRC: 1-Alejandra Alvarez – 3-Gabriela Trujillo-C, 4-Karol Segura Arguedas (12-Laura Sanchez, 33), 5-Monica Salazar, 6-E. Xiomara Briceno, 9-Erica Castro, 10-Shirley Cruz, 14-Wendy Barrantes (11-Megen Chavez, 46), 15-Yahaira Aguilar, 16-Cindy Rodriguez, 17-Jacqueline Alvarez (13-Karla Villalobos, 67)
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​TD: Ricardo RODRIGUEZ
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​R: Sandra HUNT (USA)