In this issue of Amplify, guest editor Sheema Khan talks about her love of soccer, and the current challenges faced by the national women’s team
This is the weekly Amplify newsletter, where you can be inspired and challenged by the voices, opinions and insights of women at The Globe and Mail, and our contributor community. This week’s newsletter was written by Sheema Khan, author ofThere should be a whole lotta buzz right now about the Canadian national women’s soccer team. We are less than six months away from the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
During my early soccer years, my Montreal neighborhood, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, was building up a girls’ soccer program. They were looking for volunteer coaches and I jumped at the opportunity, even though I had no coaching experience. Soon I was coaching groups of nine-, 10- and 11-year-old girls, all wide-eyed and eager, with super-supportive parents. I loved it so much that I became an accredited soccer coach with the Canadian Soccer Association while I was in university.
As we approached the playoffs, I reminded the girls how important it was to honour our team principles. The “star” player failed to show up for our last practice, before the most important game of the season. When she appeared on game day, I benched her. Yes, we needed her. But I had made a promise to the players: You put in the time and you will be rewarded. She fumed on the bench in the first half; I played her in the second. We lost the game by one goal.
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