One local soccer product got some exciting news this week.
On Tuesday, Canada's women’s national team announced that Emma Regan, born in North Vancouver and raised in Burnaby, is being called up to play in the 2024 SheBelieves Cup, an international tournament starting on Saturday in Atlanta, Ga.
Team Canada will face off against Brazil at 12:30 p.m. PT on April 6, with Japan and team U.S.A. set to follow with both games being played at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The winners there will determine the matchups when the teams meet in the final and third-place matches Tuesday evening (April 9) on the Lower.com Field in Columbus, Ohio.
Regan and teammate Marie-Yasmine Alidou are getting the chance to play because national team regulars Olivia Smith and Quinn are out with injuries.
It’s not Regan’s first time playing for Team Canada. The 24-year-old was first called up as a teenager for the 2018 Conacaf Women’s Championship, winning a silver medal and helping Canada qualify for the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019. She’s also represented Canada at two FIFA youth tournaments and won two Concacaf youth medals.
Most recently, Regan has been playing with Danish professional organization HB Køge after signing a contract in 2022. Before that, she played college soccer at the University of Texas at Austin, for Canada Soccer’s Super REX British Columbia / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite program, and Mountain United FC, where she was named female player of the year in 2013.
Canada Soccer confirms that #CANWNT players Olivia Smith and Quinn have sustained injuries at their clubs, making them unavailable for the SheBelieves Cup. Emma Regan and Marie-Yasmine Alidou will step in to join the squad for the tournament. pic.twitter.com/2pbjJeUxp3
— CANWNT (@CANWNT) April 2, 2024
