Canada presses ahead with Under-20 Women's World Cup amid FIFA turmoil

Aug 12 : Canada have confirmed they will compete at next month's Under-20 Women's World Cup in Poland, becoming the latest federation to back participation despite an escalating governance dispute that has engulfed world football."We are forging ahead with plans to compete at the upcoming U-20 Women's World Cup," Canada Soccer said in a statement to Reuters on Wednesday. "Nothing has changed from our end."The confirmation follows similar statements from France and New Zealand ahead of the first FIFA competition staged since UEFA's 55 member associations unanimously voted to support a boycott of FIFA events.The massive football governance dispute was triggered after FIFA president Gianni Infantino proposed and then abandoned a plan ​to carve off the commercial rights to the World Cup and se