Having already established herself as an elite goal-scorer at the club level, newly minted Arsenal forward Cloe Lacasse is focused on making an impact for Canada at the World Cup. By: GoldieOnSports
into the final game of SL Benfica’s regular season, a season in which they won the league by nine points and conceded just seven goals, the team found itself down 1-0 to last place Amora FC. Benfica had dominated possession for most of the match, but a beautifully timed pass past the Lisbon-based champions defence gave the perfect one-on-one opportunity for Amora to take the lead.
“Before Tokyo I had just started entering the Canadian soccer system. I think I had two camps before that roster was decided,” Lacasse says. “Of course you want to go to the Olympics — no one is going to tell you that they don’t — but I knew it was ambitious … it’s easy to say you can just give up after a moment like that, it’s easy to get frustrated, it’s easy to get mad.”
Lacasse earned Icelandic citizenship in 2019, which theoretically gave her the option of playing for the national team. But a call-up did not materialize since FIFA denied her request to suit up in her adopted home, and so she left for another challenge. She was certainly on Priestman’s radar — the Canadian women’s head coach first noticed Lacasse in a Champions League match against Chelsea — and she got a national team call-up just before Tokyo. She missed out on the Games, but her senior national team debut finally came on November 27, 2021 when she went on as a substitute in a 2-1 defeat to Mexico, a game in which her potential equalizer went over the crossbar.
Despite her success in Iceland and Portugal, Lacasse has just one goal in 19 appearances for Canada. However, after a season where she scored 22 goals in 22 league games and five times in six Champions League matches, translating that success internationally is just another challenge Lacasse is eager to conquer.
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