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Canadian soccer’s Deanne Rose overcame setbacks to emerge as star on national team

After suffering a setback as a teenager that nearly halted her career before it even started, Deanne Rose rebounded to play a starring role for Canada at the last two Olympics.

Rose had aspirations of playing professional soccer while growing up in Alliston, Ont. But she made the decision in 2014 to quit the sport after being dropped from Canada’s under-15 side. At the time, current senior team manager Bev Priestman oversaw the under-15s. 

“Before the Rio Olympics, I was cut at U-15 level. At 15, that’s a common age for a lot of girls to stop playing,” Rose said. “So, it was a real question for me of do I want to stop or do I want to continue? Am I good enough? Can I fulfill my dream? Is this possible? I had those types of questions in my head.”

“I thought it was out of the question for me, so I just planned on going to college and put the idea of playing pro soccer behind me because I didn’t think I’d get the opportunity. I’d moved on.”

But in 2015 she was invited to train with Canada’s U-17 side.

Things went so well that by the end of the year she earned her first cap for Canada’s senior team as a 16-year-old. In 2016, she was named Canada’s U-17 player of the year, capping off an amazing comeback.

“At first, I definitely was upset about being cut at 15. As I got older and had a few years to process it, I realized there were things I needed to improve on that only Bev saw at the time. It all worked out in the end,” Rose stated.  Its more than just worked out for Rose, who has scored 10 goals and tallied nine assists in 70 appearances for Canada.

One of her goals came in a 2-1 victory over Brazil in the bronze medal match at the 2016 Rio Games. She also scored a crucial penalty to keep her country’s hopes alive in the shootout versus Sweden, as Canada went on to win the gold medal in Tokyo.

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