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The voyage to the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France has commenced in Spain for Canada’s national women’s soccer team.

Under the guidance of head coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller, Canada has set up camp in Rota, Spain and will take on Norway in an international friendly Tuesday (noon ET, CanadaSoccer.com) in La Manga.

Canada opens their World Cup campaign June 10 against Cameroon in Montpellier, France. They’ll play New Zealand on June 15 in Grenoble, and then conclude their Group E play against the Netherlands in Reims on June 20.

“We definitely want to be ready for this summer and this camp is about building a bigger toolbox and adding to what we do already,” Heiner-Moller said in an exclusive interview with Postmedia from Spain on Monday. “That’s what this camp is about and that’s what the next camp is about. It’s not about sharpening the things we are good at already, but adding things. Can we add something to the way we play, the system, the positions we’re in? We’ve been looking at that for a good chunk of time, we’ve been here or 12-13 days and we’ve gotten eight or nine training sessions in.”