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

Women's football tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games
Venue	Estadio Omnilife
Dates	October 18 – 27
Competitors	143 from 8 nations
Medalists
Canada     Brazil     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. ^[1]

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 [2]	–	–	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. ^[2]

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.

•   Argentina
•   Brazil
•   Canada
•   Chile
•   Colombia
•   Costa Rica
•   Mexico
•   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. ^[3]

• Team (World ranking as of July 2011) ^[4]

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) ^[5]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Colombia	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1	6	Advance to Semifinals
2	Mexico	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5
3	Chile	3	1	1	1	3	1	+2	4
4	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

October 18, 2011

14:00

Colombia	1–0	Trinidad and Tobago
Andrade 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 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 42' (pen.)	Report	Attin-Johnson 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 18' Mardones 40' Rojas 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 2'	Report

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 13,833

Referee: Yesli Rivas (El Salvador)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7	Advance to Semifinals
2	Canada	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
3	Costa Rica	3	0	1	2	5	8	−3	1
4	Argentina	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

October 18, 2011

11:00

Canada	3–1	Costa Rica
Julien 30' Sinclair 51' Pietrangelo 82'	Report	Cruz 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 27' Daniele 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 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 59' Guedes 62'	Report	Cruz 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 67' Rodríguez 75' Alvarado 82'	Report	Pereyra 5' Vallejos 8' Ugalde 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 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 83'	Report	Kyle 48' Gayle 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 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 4'	Report	Sinclair 87'
Penalties
Alberto Maurine Nascimento Wiggers Débora	3–4	Matheson Sinclair Booth Schmidt Chapman

Estadio Omnilife, Guadalajara

Attendance: 33,614

Referee: Diane Ferreiras (Guyana)

Team details

Brazil 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  a' MF 7 Francielle MF 8 Formiga FW 17 Debinha FW 11 Thaisinha  b' Substitutes: FW 16 Ketlen  a' FW Grazielle  b' Manager: Kleiton Lima GK 1 Karina LeBlanc DF 5 Robyn Gayle  a' DF 14 Lauren Sesselmann  b' DF 9 Candace Chapman DF 16 Shannon Woeller MF 8 Diana Matheson MF 2 Kelly Parker MF 6 Kaylyn Kyle  c' FW 11 Desiree Scott FW 12 Christine Sinclair FW 10 Christina Julien Substitutes: DF 7 Rhian Wilkinson  a' MF 3 Melanie Booth  b' MF 13 Sophie Schmidt  c' Manager: John Herdman

2011 Pan American Games Women's football tournament Winners
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	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	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	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
	Canada	3–2–0
	Brazil	3–2–0
	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

References

1. Qualification standards ^[usurped]
2. Olympic qualifying, Pan Ams berths allocated Archived 2010-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
3. Pan Ams draw pits Mexico against Ecuador
4. FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking
5. Competition summary ^{[ dead link ‍]}