Goalkeeper Erin McLeod is coming home to Canada to play professional soccer in Halifax when the Northern Super League makes its debut in April.
McLeod, 41, a multiple Olympic medallist who retired from the senior national team in 2023, played professional soccer in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), in Sweden, and until recently played in Iceland with Stjarnan Women — a team in the top-tier league based in Garðabær. McLeod also took up a role as goalkeeping coach at Stjarnan.
She told CBC Sports in an exclusive interview that she thought it would be her last season as a player, partly because she was transitioning to coaching.
“I was like, this could be an okay time to hang up the boots,” she said.
But when the Halifax Tides called her, McLeod changed her mind. Every day she started to become more and more motivated.
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