{
    "title": "Canada to play in Brazil tournament",
    "modified_at": "2026-05-05 18:01:40",
    "published_at": "2010-10-13 10:00:00",
    "url": "https://news.canadasoccer.com/canada-to-play-in-brazil-tournament",
    "short_url": "http://prez.ly/bBFd",
    "culture": "en",
    "language": "EN",
    "subtitle": "Canada has announced today its participation in the second annual Torneio Internacional Cidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, a women\u2019s international football tournament from 6-19 December in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. Canada, Mexico, Netherlands and host Brazil will take part in the four-team tournament, with each team pla\u2026",
    "slug": "canada-to-play-in-brazil-tournament",
    "body": "<p>Canada has announced today its participation in the second annual Torneio Internacional Cidade de S&atilde;o Paulo, a women&rsquo;s international football tournament from 6-19 December in S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil. Canada, Mexico, Netherlands and host Brazil will take part in the four-team tournament, with each team playing four international matches over the course of the two weeks.<br>\u200b<br>\u200b<br>\u200b<br>\u200bCanada, whose title sponsor is Winners and presenting sponsor is Teck, is currently training in Canc&uacute;n, Mexico. The Canadian team will take part in the 2010 CONCACAF Women&rsquo;s World Cup Qualifier from 28 October to 8 November. The top two teams will automatically qualify for the FIFA Women&rsquo;s World Cup Germany 2011. The third-place team will advance to a two-leg playoff against the fifth-place team from Europe (either Italy or Switzerland).<br>\u200b<br>\u200b<br>\u200b<br>\u200bOf course, these four international matches in Brazil will hopefully come after a successful qualification tournament in Mexico. Should Canada qualify, it will be Canada&rsquo;s fifth-straight qualification for the FIFA Women&rsquo;s World Cup (Sweden 1995, USA 1999, USA 2003 and China 2007 to date). The four new matches will bring Canada&rsquo;s 2010 total up to 18 international matches.<br>\u200b<br>\u200b<br>\u200b<br>\u200bIn 2009, the four teams that took part in the inaugural tournament were Brazil, Mexico, China and Chile. Brazil finished first ahead of Mexico, winning 5:2 in the final with a hat trick scored by four-time FIFA Women&rsquo;s World Player of the Year Marta.<br>\u200b</p>",
    "author": {
        "first_name": "Integration",
        "last_name": "Integration"
    },
    "format_version": 5
}