Captured, thankfully, on video for posterity by the Canada Soccer media team, national team coach Bev Priestman sits the teenager down in a darkened hotel conference room and tells her: “So listen, this may come as a bit of a shock to you … you’re going to the World Cup!” But given that the Canadian women had jetted out to Australia particularly early this summer, technically Smith wasn’t going to the World Cup — she was already there.
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