The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Soccer signee Julia Grosso called up to Canadian Nat’l Team for Algarve Cup
02.16.2018 | Soccer
The prestigious annual international tournament runs from February 28-March 7 in Portugal
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas soccer class of 2018 signee Julia Grosso has received a call-up to the Canadian Women's Senior National Team for the upcoming Algarve Cup.
The prestigious annual international tournament is scheduled to run from February 28-March 7, 2018, in Algarve, Portugal. Team Canada won the 12-team tournament in 2016 before finishing as runners-up in 2017.
Drawn into Group B, Canada will face Sweden in its opening match (February 28) at Bela Vista Municipal Stadium, followed by Russia (March 2) at Estadio Algarve and Korea Republic (March 5) at Lagos Municipal Stadium. All teams will play a fourth match on March 7 to determine the tournament standings.
This isn't Grosso's first call-up to the Senior National Team as she recently earned her first senior cap by appearing in a friendly against the United States in San Jose, Calif., on Nov. 12, 2017. A fixture with the Canada Under-20 Women's National Team, Grosso received five caps (playing all 450 possible minutes) for the team during its run to the third-place match at the 2018 CONCACAF Under-20 Women's Championship in Trinidad & Tobago. In a match during the group stage against the host country T&T, she registered a pair of assists as Team Canada prevailed 4-1. She also traveled to Jordan in 2016 and earned three caps for the Canada Under-17 team at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup (was chosen as Canada's best player by FIFA TSG Report) and was named to the Best Starting XI while helping Canada U-17's to a bronze medal at the 2016 CONCACAF Under-17 Championship in Grenada.
Canada's 23-person squad for the event includes 15 players who won Bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
