Canada national indoor lacrosse team
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| World Indoor Lacrosse Championship | ||
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2003 Toronto | |
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2007 Halifax | |
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2011 Prague | |
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2015 Onondaga Nation | |
Canada national indoor lacrosse team represents Canada in international tournaments of indoor lacrosse. It is one of the best national lacrosse teams in the world, having won all four World Indoor Lacrosse Championships held starting with the 2003 ILF World Indoor Lacrosse Championship held in Canada. Their biggest rivals are the Iroquois Nationals, who finished in second place in all four tournaments.
Team Canada consists of primarily of professional players from the National Lacrosse League. Many players also play field lacrosse in MLL, and are members of Canada men's field lacrosse national team.
The first World Indoor Lacrosse Championship was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Canada entered the tournament as the favourite to win. They went through the six-team group without any losses. In the semifinals they beat Team USA. Team Canada, led by captain Jim Veltman, won the gold medal match against Iroquois Nationals 21-4 and became the first World Indoor Lacrosse Champions.
The second World Indoor Lacrosse Championship was held in Canada again, this time in Halifax. This time, tournament was firstly divided in two groups of four teams. Canada met subsequently Ireland, Australia and USA. They prevailed in all three matches to reach the Semifinals, where they would met England. Canada won in this match 24-8 to move to the Final, where they met Iroquois Nationals again. Canada was losing during the second and third quarters, but thanks to two goals of John Grant, Jr., they ended up taking the game to overtime. After thirty seconds, Jeff Zywicki scored his first goal in the match, so Team Canada could be crowned as the World Champion again.
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