Football at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

Women's football tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games
File:Football pictogram.svg
Venue	Estadio Omnilife
Dates	October 18 – 27
Competitors	143 from 8 nations
Medalists
Gold medal  Canada Silver medal  Brazil Bronze medal  Mexico
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The women's association football tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games was held in Guadalajara, Mexico at the Estadio Omnilife from October 18 to October 27. Associations affiliated with FIFA that qualified were invited to send their full women's national teams. For these Games, the women competed in an 8-team tournament, which is a drop from 10 at the 2007 games. The defending champions are Brazil, who won the title on home field.

Teams

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee may enter one women's team for the football competition. Mexico, the host nation and Canada (automatic qualification) along with six other countries qualified through regional competitions.

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	–	–	1	Mexico
Qualified automatically	–	–	1	Canada
Central American and Caribbean qualifying tournament	October 28 – November 8, 2010	Mexico	2	Costa Rica Trinidad and Tobago
South American qualifying tournament	November 4–21, 2010	Ecuador	4	Brazil Colombia Chile Argentina
TOTAL			8

• The highest finisher from each the Caribbean and Central American regions qualified.

Squads

Main article: Football at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's team squads

The women's tournament is a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each nation must submit a squad of 18 players September 2011. A minimum of two goalkeepers (plus one optional alternate goalkeeper) must be included in the squad.

• File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina
• File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil
• File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
• File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile
• File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia
• File:Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica
• File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico
• File:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago

Format

• Eight teams are split into 2 preliminary round groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage.
• The third and fourth placed teams are eliminated from the competition.
• In the semifinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B2 and B1 vs. A2
• The winning teams from the semifinals play for the gold medal. The losing teams compete for the bronze medal.

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held at the offices of CONCACAF in New York City, United States. The draw was conducted by CONCACAF Deputy General Secretary Ted Howard. The seeding information was not provided, rather the results of the draw were given.

• Team (World ranking as of July 2011)

Group A	Group B
Mexico (22) Colombia (29) Trinidad and Tobago (48) Chile (44)	Brazil (3) Canada (9) Costa Rica (42) Argentina (34)

Preliminary round

All times are local Central Daylight Time (UTC−5)

Qualified for the semifinals

Group A

Nation	PLD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Colombia	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1	6
Mexico	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5
Chile	3	1	1	1	3	1	+2	4
Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	1	2	1	5	–4	1

October 18, 2011

14:00

Colombia	1–0	Trinidad and Tobago
Andrade File:Soccerball shade.svg 18'	Report

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 3,548

Referee: Salomé di Iorio (Argentina)

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October 18, 2011

21:00

Mexico	0–0	Chile
	Report

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 9,235

Referee: Diane Ferreiras (Guyana)

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October 20, 2011

14:00

Chile	0–1	Colombia
	Report	Rincón File:Soccerball shade.svg 3'

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 4,204

Referee: Lucila Venegas (Mexico)

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October 20, 2011

20:00

Mexico	1–1	Trinidad and Tobago
Dominguez File:Soccerball shade.svg 42' (pen.)	Report	Attin-Johnson File:Soccerball shade.svg 21'

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 9,168

Referee: Irasema Aguilera (Cuba)

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October 22, 2011

10:00

Trinidad and Tobago	0–3	Chile
	Report	Lara File:Soccerball shade.svg 18' Mardones File:Soccerball shade.svg 40' Rojas File:Soccerball shade.svg 65'

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 5,900

Referee: Salomé di Iorio (Argentina)

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October 22, 2011

17:00

Mexico	1–0	Colombia
Pérez File:Soccerball shade.svg 2'	Report

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 13,833

Referee: Yesli Rivas (El Salvador)

Group B

Nation	PLD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
Canada	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
Costa Rica	3	0	1	2	5	8	-3	1
Argentina	3	0	1	2	3	6	-3	1

October 18, 2011

11:00

Canada	3–1	Costa Rica
Julien File:Soccerball shade.svg 30' Sinclair File:Soccerball shade.svg 51' Pietrangelo File:Soccerball shade.svg 82'	Report	Cruz File:Soccerball shade.svg 28' (pen.)

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 3,380

Referee: Shane de Silva (Trinidad and Tobago)

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October 18, 2011

17:00

Argentina	0–2	Brazil
	Report	Guedes File:Soccerball shade.svg 27' Daniele File:Soccerball shade.svg 37'

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 5,967

Referee: Lucila Venegas (Mexico)

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October 20, 2011

10:00

Canada	1–0	Argentina
Julien File:Soccerball shade.svg 48'	Report

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 4,204

Referee: Yesli Rivas (El Salvador)

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October 20, 2011

17:00

Brazil	2–1	Costa Rica
Débora File:Soccerball shade.svg 59' Guedes File:Soccerball shade.svg 62'	Report	Cruz File:Soccerball shade.svg 90+5'

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 6,837

Referee: Diane Ferreiras (Guyana)

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October 22, 2011

13:00

Costa Rica	3–3	Argentina
Acosta File:Soccerball shade.svg 67' Rodríguez File:Soccerball shade.svg 75' Alvarado File:Soccerball shade.svg 82'	Report	Pereyra File:Soccerball shade.svg 5' Vallejos File:Soccerball shade.svg 8' Ugalde File:Soccerball shade.svg 16' (o.g.)

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 6,417

Referee: Shane de Silva (Trinidad and Tobago)

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October 22, 2011

20:00

Brazil	0–0	Canada
	Report

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 16,316

Referee: Irasema Aguilera (Cuba)

• A drawing of lots was used to separate Canada and Brazil after they were tied on every tiebreaker. Brazil won the draw.

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	25 October – Guadalajara
	Brazil	1
					27 October – Guadalajara
	Mexico	0
					Brazil	1 (3)
	25 October – Guadalajara
					Canada (pen.)	1 (4)
	Colombia	1
	Canada	2
					Third place
					27 October – Guadalajara
					Mexico (a.e.t.)	1
					Colombia	0

Semifinals

October 25, 2011

17:00

Mexico	0–1	Brazil
	Report	Maurine File:Soccerball shade.svg 79'

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 19,770

Referee: Irasema Aguilera (Cuba)

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October 25, 2011

20:00

Colombia	1–2	Canada
Usme File:Soccerball shade.svg 83'	Report	Kyle File:Soccerball shade.svg 48' Gayle File:Soccerball shade.svg 88'

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 20,966

Referee: Salomé di Iorio (Argentina)

Bronze-medal match

October 27, 2011

14:00

Mexico	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Colombia
Ruiz File:Soccerball shade.svg 100'	Report

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 31,408

Referee: Yesli Rivas (El Salvador)

Gold-medal match

October 27, 2011

17:45

Brazil	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Canada
Débora File:Soccerball shade.svg 4'	Report	Sinclair File:Soccerball shade.svg 87'
Penalties
Alberto soccer ball with check mark Maurine soccer ball with check mark Nascimento soccer ball with red X Wiggers soccer ball with check mark Débora soccer ball with red X	3–4	soccer ball with check mark Matheson soccer ball with check mark Sinclair soccer ball with check mark Booth soccer ball with check mark Schmidt soccer ball with red X Chapman

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 33,614

Referee: Diane Ferreiras (Guyana)

Team details

File:Kit left arm.svg File:Kit body.svg File:Kit right arm.svg File:Kit shorts.svg File:Kit socks long.svg Brazil File:Kit left arm.svg File:Kit body.svg File:Kit right arm.svg File:Kit shorts.svg File:Kit socks long.svg Canada GK 1 Bárbara DF 2 Maurine DF 13 Karen Rocha DF 4 Tânia Maria DF 15 Maycon MF 5 Daiane Rodrigues MF 6 Rosana downward-facing red arrow a' MF 7 Francielle MF 8 Formiga FW 17 Debinha FW 11 Thaisinha downward-facing red arrow b' Substitutes: FW 16 Ketlen upward-facing green arrow a' FW Grazielle upward-facing green arrow b' Manager: Kleiton Lima GK 1 Karina LeBlanc DF 5 Robyn Gayle downward-facing red arrow a' DF 14 Lauren Sesselmann downward-facing red arrow b' DF 9 Candace Chapman DF 16 Shannon Woeller MF 8 Diana Matheson MF 2 Kelly Parker MF 6 Kaylyn Kyle downward-facing red arrow c' FW 11 Desiree Scott FW 12 Christine Sinclair FW 10 Christina Julien Substitutes: DF 7 Rhian Wilkinson upward-facing green arrow a' MF 3 Melanie Booth upward-facing green arrow b' MF 13 Sophie Schmidt upward-facing green arrow c' Manager: John Herdman

2011 Pan American Games Women's football tournament Winners
File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada 1st title

Goalscorers

2 goals

• Shirley Cruz
• Christine Sinclair
• Christina Julien
• Débora de Oliveira
• Thais Guedes

1 goals

• Daniele Batista
• Maurine
• Maribel Domínguez
• Verónica Pérez
• Jennifer Ruiz
• Wendy Acosta
• Raquel Rodríguez
• Katherine Alvarado
• Kaylyn Kyle
• Robyn Gayle
• Amelia Pietrangelo
• Lady Andrade
• Yoreli Rincón
• Catalina Usme
• Maylee Attin-Johnson
• Francisca Lara
• Francisca Mardones
• María José Rojas
• Mercedes Pereyra
• Fabiana Vallejos

1 own goal

• Marianne Ugalde (playing against Argentina)

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's football	File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Rachelle Beanlands Melanie Booth Candace Chapman Robyn Gayle Christina Julien Kaylyn Kyle Karina LeBlanc Vanessa Legault-Cordisco Diana Matheson Kelly Parker Sophie Schmidt Desiree Scott Lauren Sesselmann Diamond Simpson Christine Sinclair Brittany Timko Rhian Wilkinson Shannon Woeller	File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Francielle Alberto Rosana Augusto Bárbara Barbosa Daniele Batista Renata Costa Débora de Oliveira Maurine Gonçalves Thaís Guedes Beatriz Zaneratto João Miraildes Mota Grazielle Nascimento Tânia Ribeiro Thaís Picarte Karen Rocha Daiane Rodrigues Andréia Suntaque Renata Diniz Ketlen Wiggers	File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Aurora Santiago Erika Venegas Kenti Robles Rubí Sandoval Jennifer Ruiz Valeria Miranda Mónica Vergara Marylin Díaz Luz del Rosario Saucedo Stephany Mayor Guadalupe Worbis Dinora Garza Liliana Mercado Liliana Godoy Verónica Pérez Maribel Domínguez Mónica Ocampo Tanya Samarzich

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
File:Gold medal icon.svg	Canada	3–2–0
File:Silver medal icon.svg	Brazil	3–2–0
File:Bronze medal icon.svg	Mexico	2–2–1
4	Colombia	2–0–3
5	Chile	1–1–1
6	Costa Rica	0–1–2
7	Argentina	0–1–2
8	Trinidad and Tobago	0–1–2