{"id":412255,"date":"2023-02-11T03:20:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T08:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412255"},"modified":"2023-02-11T03:20:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T08:20:54","slug":"canada-womens-team-to-go-on-strike-over-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-womens-team-to-go-on-strike-over-funding-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada women&#8217;s team to go on strike over funding cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Canada national women&#8217;s team will go on strike over pay equity concerns and a lack of funding that they believe will compromise their performances, captain Christine Sinclair said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">The players of the team, who won the Olympic title in 2021, released a joint statement, <\/span><span data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.3\">condemning Canada Soccer&#8217;s &#8220;continued inability to support its national teams&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The time is now, we are taking job action. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QbVbhTcdDU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QbVbhTcdDU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CanadianSoccerPlayers (@PlayersCanadian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayersCanadian\/status\/1624160160980557826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">Canada, who are sixth in the world rankings, will play the United States in the SheBelieves Cup on 17 February.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1\">\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot bbccom_standard_slot mpu_first_slot\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0\">\n<div class=\"bbccom_advert\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0.0\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">&#8220;As a team we have decided to take job action,&#8221; Sinclair told broadcaster TSN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">&#8220;From this moment on we will not be participating in any [Canada Soccer] activities until this is resolved &#8211; whether that&#8217;s training, whether that&#8217;s games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">&#8220;That&#8217;s very hard to say as an athlete who wants to compete and represent Canada, but enough is enough.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">In a statement, which has been supported by Canada&#8217;s men team, players said they are &#8220;outraged and deeply concerned&#8221; by reporting funding cuts at the national body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">&#8220;We are demanding immediate change,&#8221; the statement read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">&#8220;We expect and deserve nothing less than to be treated equally and fairly and to have our program &#8211; and our World Cup preparations &#8211; funded appropriately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11\"><span data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.0\">&#8220;We are left feeling frustrated and, once again, deeply disrespected by Canada Soccer.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1q29sqzv7co.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11\">Canada Soccer said in a statement it has &#8220;a proven record of supporting women&#8217;s soccer&#8221;, adding a meeting with the national&#8217;s women team will take place in Orlando on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ca\" dir=\"ltr\">Canada Soccer Statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FfKf2So3PW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FfKf2So3PW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadaSoccerEN\/status\/1624205022920683523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada national women&#8217;s team will go on strike over pay equity concerns and a lack of funding that they believe will compromise their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412256,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17437],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Players release joint statement, which has been supported by Canada's men team","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412255"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412255"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}