In the immediate aftermath of his side’s remarkable bronze-medal win, Canadian women’s team head coach John Herdman said he wished the success encouraged girls around the world to lace up their shoes and desire following within their heroines’ footsteps.

Madison Hvilivitzky was listening.

The 14-year-old striker with the Thorold Soccer Club had a training on Friday, the day after Canada’s 1-0 victory over France to fully capture the very first medal for the nation in a normal group Replica Bvlgari Sales activity since 1936. It was as though she'd a turbo increase on her football boots.

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“I was only working so hard,” Hvilivitzky said Monday. “It was in the trunk of my mind that if I work very difficult and keep recovering then I will make it happen one day.”

Hvilivitzky was certainly one of dozens of young female football players — several decked out in their own outfits — who stumbled on Pearson Airport Terminal to welcome home some members of the group among more than 30 Canadian athletes returning from London.

There were cheers for Olympians who competed in from track and field to kayak. Trampolinist Rosie MacLennan, Canada’s solitary gold medallist in London, was achieved by roars, a huge advertising featuring her photograph and a massive marketing throng.

But there is little question who the stars of the display were for the audience of 300 or so.

“The women’s baseball team is quite popular only at Replica Hublot Watch the airport, because they must be,” kayaker Adam van Koeverden explained as he tried to obtain past a crush of pint-sized ladies from the Dixie Soccer Club in Mississauga who plugged him with a banner.

“This is insane today. It’s madness,” claimed Diana Matheson, 28, a veteran of the national team who scored the second-half stoppage-time winner against France.

“We’re obviously super excited to have one of these,” a beaming Matheson, who at 5-feet-nothing was often eye to eye with her young soccer-playing fans, said while supporting her bronze medal for the cameras and cheering fans. “It’s good. I love it.”

With Canada set to host the 2015 Women’s World Cup, Matheson claimed she hopes the side’s performance in London “is the catalyst going forward” to develop the game here.

“We desired to leave some type of history appearing out of this and I think it’s a great deal larger than we thought, so it’s amazing. Ideally it just keeps getting larger and the interest remains with Canada’s football, men and women, and it just keeps growing.”

The team’s honor, which some one of the group informed Matheson and her teammates “looks just like gold to us,” truly had the eye of Lilly Stathopoulos, 15.

“They’re just an explained Replica Breitling Quartz Watch Stathopoulos, who found the airport with people of her Oshawa Red Devils under-16 side. “Everything they do. They inspire us to be greater players.”

Team veteran Candace Chapman, who, like teammates Matheson, Carmelina Moscato and Robyn Gayle kept not exactly two hours after their trip came to sign autographs, pose for images and do interviews, said “seeing this welcome is overwhelming for us.”

“It’s therefore unique for us,” said Chapman, 29, who first matched up for the team in 2002. “I wish that we’ve reached what we desired to, which was to encourage girls to carry on only in sport in general. Earning a bronze is merely icing on the cake for sure.”

Moscato, 28, who has additionally been with the staff since 2002, said they had two distinct goals when they began preparations for London. Both have now been achieved, she said.

“We wanted ahead out with a medal but we honestly, first and foremost, wanted to inspire the technology and leave the sport better than when we got in 10 years ago,” Moscato said. “We’re just happy we could actually touch the hearts of people.”

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