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Journey to the Cup: How will Canada fare in the “Group of Death”?

Full Time: A show about women's soccer

The Athletic

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4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This is a special "Journey to the Cup" episode brought to you by Google Chrome.


Meg is joined by Canadian and Portland Thorns forward Janine Beckie — currently rehabbing her ACL injury — to preview Canada’s World Cup — including their journey through the best and most interesting group, alongside hosts Australia, plus the Republic of Ireland and Nigeria. Thoughts on the preliminary roster from Bev Priestman, the lack of a send-off match for the team ahead of the tournament, plus FIFA’s increased investment in the women’s game.


Here’s more on Canada’s preliminary roster from Steph Yang: https://theathletic.com/4593326/2023/06/08/canada-preliminary-world-cup-roster/

You can follow all our 2023 World Cup coverage here: https://theathletic.com/football/womens-world-cup-soccer/

Read all of The Athletic’s Journey to the Cup coverage here: https://theathletic.com/tag/the-journey-to-the-cup/


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There's no place like Chrome. so i am very excited to talk all

1:12.9

things canada ahead of the summer's world cup with none other than jean becky who has obviously

1:17.2

been with us on full time before we figured we would bring her back because there's no better person

1:22.1

to talk to following the release of canada's preliminary roster for their world cup prep

1:26.8

plus we've got plenty of other news about the World Cup happening. So if you did miss that full roster, we've got it on the athletic, thanks to Steph. So there will be a link in the show notes for you. But let's just dive right in. Janine, welcome back. Thank you for having me back. I am very excited to be here. Okay, great. I do, I want to start with you

1:46.5

and your recovery process and how that's going for you. Obviously, the background. If people are

1:53.1

watching this video, it does not look like Portland, I'll put it that way. Yeah, so I have been really

1:59.6

lucky with such a great club that has just kind of gone above and beyond to make sure that I'm getting the care that I need, as well as being able to take care of the playing squad.

2:11.6

So, you know, my life is kind of in two places here in Miami and in Portland.

2:16.2

And just because of the phase that I'm in in my rehab,

2:18.9

I've kind of been back and forth a little bit. So I'm here for a short bit of time working with

2:23.4

physical therapists and then I'll be back in Portland, hopefully when I'm ready to do some more

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pliometric and get back into running mechanics, which is really exciting. So my recovery is going well. It's been what I would

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