Canada’s 50s women earn bronze at World Nations Cup of walking soccer

CBC Sports

· Posted: Oct 31, 2025 1:03 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 31

Canada’s implicit 50 women delivered a bronze-medal show astatine the World Nations Cup of walking soccer, beating Australia connected penalties Friday successful Torrevieja, Spain.

The teams played to a 1-1 gully successful regulation, with Canada’s Pauline Fisher opening the scoring successful the archetypal fractional earlier Australia tied it with six minutes remaining successful the second.

The lucifer was tied done 3 rounds of penalties earlier goalkeeper Fatima Harris scored from the spot, giving Canada a 2-1 shootout win. 

“We were shoulder-to-shoulder, holding each different done the shootout, and that made for a beauteous infinitesimal erstwhile we ran towards to Fatima to celebrate,” said defender Negar Farjadnia.

Harris is up for the Golden Glove aft keeping 3 cleanable sheets, earlier successful the tournament. She besides made 2 stops successful the shootout.

Canada finished the radical signifier with a 3-1-2 record.

The Canadians mislaid to eventual champions France, a 1-0 decision successful the semifinals.

Canada came adjacent to tying the lucifer connected a stoppage clip escaped kick, but came up short. 

This is the archetypal clip Canada has entered a women’s squad successful the World Nations Cup.

“It means a full batch astatine this signifier successful my beingness to correspond Canada – and our values of peace, diverseness and radical coming unneurotic – connected a planetary stage,” Farjadnia said.

Sanctioned by the Federation of International Walking Football Associations, the World Nations Cup included teams from 21 counties competing successful 3 men’s and 3 women’s property categories.

England won claimed 5 of the six titles, earlier losing the women’s implicit 50 last to France.

“The 50s women’s part is demonstrating the planetary maturation of walking soccer, arsenic we saw parity throughout, with teams staring down the favoured English side,” said Team Canada Coach Greg Mitchell.