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TORONTO -- Team Europe will lean on 6-foot-9 defenseman Zdeno Chara, referred to by his coach as a tower, to slow Canada in the World Cup of Hockey finals.When Sidney Crosby and Co. come charging down the ice, Chara will often be standing and skating in their way.Hes a guy who you dont want to play against, Canadian forward Brad Marchand said Monday. Hes mean. Hes big. Hes tough. And, he covers a lot of ice.Marchand would know.He, along with Canadas Patrice Bergeron, play with Chara in Boston.The 39-year-old Chara will not only be the tallest player on the ice Tuesday night in Game 1 of the best-of-three series. Hell also be the oldest.Marchand, though, insisted the 2009 Norris Trophy winner has not lost a step.Hes still dominant in so many areas.Chara is averaging nearly 22 minutes of ice time per game, ranking among team leaders, and has scored a goal in four World Cup games.Europe coach Ralph Krueger cites leadership as one of Charas biggest assets. He has been Bostons captain for nearly a decade and became the first Slovakian player to win a Stanley Cup in 2011, and the second European to be captain of an NHL champion, following Nicklas Lidstrom in 2008.When Krueger was putting together the team a year ago, he traveled to New York to talk to Chara when the Bruins were playing the Islanders in a preseason game.Getting Chara to buy in, Krueger figured, was a key to the teams success.Several players joined the conversation, Krueger recalled, and a newfound respect began to develop.A tower for more than his physical presence, Krueger said. Its the man inside of that tower that has been so exciting to work with.Chara said the top priority for team-building was having players from eight nations mesh as one.We talked about a lot of things, but nothing can be accomplished, nothing can be done if you dont come together as a team, he said. Its not going to happen if youre not going to have everyone on the same page and playing as a team. Nobody showed any egos and we worked really hard.Instead of just playing for his country, Chara is competing for a pan-European team made up of countries outside of the continents four traditional powers.Hes one of six players from Slovakia, tying the number of Germans on the team. Four players are from Switzerland, three from Denmark and one apiece from Austria, France, Norway and Slovenia.Its been a real pleasure to get to know them and being on the same team, Chara said. So, its been a really good experience.The three-time Olympian sounds like hes having a good time, playing in another best-on-best tournament, even though he acknowledged he doesnt always look like it.It doesnt mean if I dont smile, I dont have fun, he said. A lot of time you might think Im maybe sad, but inside Im happy and smiling. Thats just the way I am and Im not expressing myself. 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Given it took five years for her last major award to sink in, Caitlin Foord admits it might be a little while before she understands the enormity of being crowned Asian womens player of the year.Foord edged Matildas teammate Lisa De Vanna and Chinas Tan Ruyin to claim the continents top gong at the Asian Football Confederation annual awards in Abu Dhabi, following in the footsteps of fellow Australians Katrina Gorry in 2014 and Kate Gill in 2010.It makes the 22-year-old Sydney FC utility just the second player to have won the senior and junior Asian individual titles, after clinching young player of the year in 2011.Looking back at the youth player of the year award, I was perhaps too young to really think too much of it, Foord told AAP.The trophies Ive won in previous years dont really sink in until a few years later when I look back on them and think, wow, that was a good year for me and it is a big achievement.I think itll be the same with this one.Part of that has to do with Foords surprise given she doesnt consider this year to have been her best.I thought we had a great year as the Matildas but, for me, I hit some hurdles along the way so I didnt expect to win at all, she said.By her own admission, 2016 has been a rollercoasster ride of emotions.ddddddddddddWhile the Matildas dominant Olympics qualification campaign was a massive high, their quarter-final penalty-shootout loss to Brazil six months later in Rio was the undisputed low point.All the while Foord was battling to overcome a broken collarbone, a recovery capped by a goal against eventual Olympic gold medallists Germany.Its just the latest in an already sparkling career that belies the veterans youth.In 2011, aged 16, she became the youngest Australian woman to play at a World Cup in Germany and, last year, was a key figure in the Matildas historic World Cup run to the quarter-finals in Canada.I still look at 2011 as my best year, breaking into the Matildas and then experiencing my first World Cup and winning an award at the World Cup was very special, Foord said.This year was a good year but I didnt think it was my best year, but Ive still got a few more years to go and Im still learning.UAE star Omar Abdulrahman took out the mens player of the year award.Australians Kate Jacewicz and Renae Coghill were also honoured at the awards with a referees special award. 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