The smile was erased from Jordyn Huitema’s face as fast as the striker’s pass in a football field.
He was arguing about her and the long rivalry of Canada’s women’s team with the United States when a Toronto journalist asked Huitema about being the victim of a domestic invasion last month.
With a free night on May 1, the fourth year member of Seattle Reign FC of the National Women’s Soccer League FC locked all the doors of his house in Mercer Island, Washington, at 8:30 pm PT and went to bed.
Soon, Huitema listened to the noise down, but the home alarm did not sound. He quickly entered into survival mode, grabbing clothes, his phone and closing in the bathroom hiding in a closed water closet.
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“He was sitting on the floor with his back against the door and feet in the toilet, pushing against the door,” said Huitema, from Chilliwack, BC, Al Seattle Times. “But then … there was a person who entered the bathroom with me, and his flashlight shone, and I could see that he went under the door. He knew he was just next to me, and he just expected not to touch the door.
“It was then that I put my hand on my mouth and nose and I was just trying to hold all the tears, trying to hold all the sounds, just trying to be as calm as possible.”
Huitema called 911 and finally reached a dispatcher, whispering details in an attempt to remain hidden. She doesn’t know if the thieves realized that she was at home but was never seen. Intruders robbed almost $ 200,000 by value of belongings, according to judicial documents.
Weeks later, Huitema and his Canadian teammates are preparing for the celebration of Friday’s pride against Costa Rica, a beginning of ET at 7:30 pm in BMO Field in Toronto.
‘It’s a trip’
Huitema now has more jump in its passage. He is having fun with his teammates in the national team. And she is excited to play a local crowd.
“A work in Progreso”, is how Huitema, 24, described his return to football in a zoom call this week with Signa Butler of CBC Sports. “It’s a trip. I have my sleeping and eating routine; the basics to be a professional [athlete].
“The joy that brings me in the field is something that you don’t feel anywhere else. I feel like a different person than the one I was [a few weeks ago]”
After the invasion of the house, Reign’s chief coach, Laura Harvey, gave Huitema the option to sit, but decided to play.
“I tried to give everything,” said the player, “and that missed me more without realizing that I was escaping myself. I was exhausted.
“I was fighting so much that when it was time to step on the countryside, my head was in a different world.
“I am very bad to choose in situations in which I should,” Huitema continued, “but I am learning.”
After an “incredible” conversation with Casey Stoney, coach in the first year chief of the National Women’s Team of Canada, Huitema returned to Chilliwack and spent approximately one week with his parents and brothers.
“She agreed that she should get away,” Huitema said about Stoney, former 42 -year -old England captain hired by Canada’s football in January. “I never like to shake the white flag and say that I am depressed.
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“[But] It was a good restart. He had left [the situation] in a spiral, it could have become something where I needed to be a longer state [absence] But everything I needed at that time was a week. “
These days, Huitema is excited about the amount of fresh faces with the national team. In March 2017, he made his debut with the senior club as a 15-year-old girl in the final defeat of Canada’s Algarve 1-0 Cup against Spain in Portugal. She was the third youngest woman to play for Canada behind the only head of Kara Lang record and Jessie Fleming, who were also 15 years old.
“We need to start developing the future of Canada’s football,” said the five -foot and 10 -inch huitema, which won the 2021 Olympic gold in Tokyo and was a member of the last year’s team in Paris. “You see yourself in [the younger players]. It can relate to them, to try to help or support them to feel comfortable. “
After Friday’s friendly, Canadians classified eighths travel to Washington to face the best classified on July 2 in Audi Field.
Canada, who has not won in the United States since November 11, 2000, has a record of 4-53-9 against the United States dating from 1986 when the Canadian Women’s program was established.
“Yes, we all hate [the U.S. team]”Huitema said, smiling.” It is the rivalry we have. It’s fun because I’ve been playing with many of [their players] The last three, four years. I am a close friend of 95 percent of them.
“I will have brief conversations with them, and they will say: ‘We hate them. They are very friendly and we love them as people, but we hate them.’ It is probably the most exciting game we play. [one] You want to win, sure. “
