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FIFA Women's World Cup: Kaylyn Kyle kicks 45-yard field goal

Canadian soccer player Kaylyn Kyle showed a couple CFL players how it's done, kicking a 45-yard field goal straight through the uprights, after being challenged on Thursday over social media.

Women's team accepts kicking challenge from CFL players

Canadian soccer player Kaylyn Kyle may have a future as a CFL kicker if she ever decides to switch sports. (Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images)

Canadian soccer player Kaylyn Kyle showed a couple CFL players how it's done, kicking a 45-yard field goal straight through the uprights, after being challenged on Thursday over social media.

The Montreal Alouettes' Marc Olivier-Brouillette and the B.C. Lions' Adam Bighill challenged the Canadian Women's National team to kick a CFL football 35 yards for a field goal via a video shared over social media.


It didn't take long for the team to accept the challenge and for Kyle to post her own video showing her besting the 35-yard challenge with a clean 45-yard score.


More members of the team got into the action, posting a video of themselves kicking field goals minus the uprights, practicing tackling and issuing a challenge of their own.

Adriana Leon, Stephanie Labbe, Sophie Schmidt and Selenia Iacchelli asked CFL players to pass their own test by kicking a soccer ball from the 18-yard box off a goal crossbar.


And in true sporting fashion, the CFL accepted the counter challenge with Bighill doing his best to show off his soccer skills.

Olivier-Brouillette made it happen on behalf of the CFL, hitting the crossbar after many others had their turn to try.