CanWNT Game?

I've heard that the CanadianWNT are having a game at Richardson Stadium in early-mid September? Can anyone confirm this?

 

Alright so here's what i've found out (copyed from an email a friend sent me):

Canada’s national women’s soccer team will play its final exhibition game before September’s World Cup in Kingston.

The Canadian Soccer Association will announce Tuesday that Canada will play Australia on Sept. 14 at Richardson Stadium.

Kingston was selected for the match because Richardson is the second-largest stadium in the country with a natural surface – second only to Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton – said Savas Kekkas of the Southeast Ontario Soccer Association.

“They wanted to play their last game on natural turf before going to the U.S.,” Kekkas said.

Canada, seeded 12th for the quadrennial event, will open the World Cup against Germany on Sept. 20 in Columbus, Ohio.

Dave McDowell, coach of the women’s varsity team at Queen’s University, said the opportunity to host this game “is a pretty big deal.”

“It’s not very often in town we get an event of this magnitude in terms of any sport. It’s kind of neat to get a chance to see them play.”

The Canadian women have played exhibitions this summer in Montreal and Ottawa, and they have an upcoming game against Mexico in Vancouver. McDowell said the Kingston game might be the first time the full team will be together.

“I know being in touch with some of the coaches on the national team, they really haven’t had their full team over the last little bit,” he said, “so we’re going to be pretty lucky here in Kingston to get to see them at full strength right before they head to the World Cup.”

Kekkas said he met with officials from the national association about a month ago to discuss the possibility of holding the game in Kingston.

“They wanted to know if we could sell a certain amount of tickets and I said, ‘Yes we can,’ ” said Kekkas, who committed to selling 6,000 tickets.

“We have to fill [the stadium]. They don’t want to come down here and only have a few thousand people. They want a lot of people there.”

At $5 apiece, he’s certain he’ll be able to do so. In the Kingston area alone, he said, there are 13,000 soccer players.

“You’d think from just them we should be able to fill it but then that’s just players,” he said, noting that 10 busloads of spectators from Belleville, Picton and Kingston went to Ottawa to see the women’s exhibition game there in the spring.

“This will be a huge event,” Kekkas said, adding that if the response is good this time, other international exhibitions could follow.

“If we can fill this stadium once, it will be a lot easier for us to bring other teams here in the future.”