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Rehkopf and Team Canada open their pretournament schedule Dec. 19.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023

With the World Cup just three months away, another pretournament favorite has lost a standout player to a major knee injury.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

Nov. 15 is likely the first day Berhalter will have his entire roster available ahead of the opener, and he probably will scrap plans for a pretournament training camp in Dubai.

From Washington Times • Apr. 1, 2022

“We never know,” he said during a pretournament news conference.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2022

But in the men’s competition, the Russian squad — formally competing as the Russian Olympic Committee as a penalty for the country’s history of doping — was a pretournament favorite, if an imperfect one.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2022