Forward Melissa Tancredi, along with defenders Rhian Wilkinson and Marie-Ève Nault, three of Canada's longest-tenured soccer players, announced their retirements from the women's national team on Friday.
Tancredi and Wilkinson will make their final appearance with the team in a Feb. 4 game against Mexico at Vancouver's B.C. Place Stadium. Nault will be attendance at the match but not in the lineup.
Tancredi earned two Olympic bronze medals and appeared at three World Cups in 124 matches with the national team. The 35-year-old from Ancaster, Ont., had 27 goals and 20 assists in her career and was the second-leading scorer on Canada's Olympic team at the 2012 London Games behind icon Christine Sinclair.
Tancredi, who was a two-time All-American and NCAA champion at Notre Dame, took two years away from the national team after London to finish her Doctor of Chiroporactic degree. She returned to the team for her third and final Olympics in Rio.
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Wilkinson, a fellow centurion, was a model of consistency for Canada over her 180 matches dating back to the 2003 World Cup in the United States. The 34-year-old Baie d'Urfé, Que., native also owns two Olympic bronze medals and was named to the All-Time Canada XI women's team in 2012.
Wilkinson was also an assistant coach for Canada's under-20 women's team at the 2014 U-20 World Cup on home soil. Her last professional season was with the NWSL's Portland Thistles in 2015.
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Nault, a teammate of Wilkinson's at the University of Tennessee, made her national team debut in 2004 and recieved two Olympic bronze medals as well. The 34-year-old from Trois-Rivières, Que., plays professionally for KIF Örebro in Sweden along with Tancredi.
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