Canada’s captain catapulted the national team from soccer obscurity to Olympic gold, a championship feat she hopes to repeat at this year’s World Cup
“She continues to evolve and I think that’s a credit to Christine and the high performer and winner that she is,” Bev Priestman, the team’s coach, told journalists during a video call last week. Ms. Priestman is three years“What stands out to me is the level of hunger she still has after being at so many World Cups and Olympic Games. And I think when you’ve got that hunger, desire and work ethic, any player who puts on the jersey is thankful to play alongside you.”.
In the book, Ms. Sinclair reveals that she has a Canadian flag running with a soccer ball tattooed on her back, a fun and inoffensive fact.“I got it when I was at the University of Portland,” she said tersely. “A bunch of us made a road trip up to Victoria, and I came back with a tattoo. We’ll just end it there.”Christine Sinclair grew up in South Burnaby, B.C., and played with seven-year-olds when she was 4 and on an under-14 team at 11.
She has been a fixture in Canadian sports for two decades but rose significantly in prominence at the 2012 Olympics in London. A year earlier Canada had lost all three of its games in Germany in an embarrassing performance at the World Cup. In England, however, it advanced from the group stage to the knockout round before losing in the semi-finals in extra time to the United States. Ms.
She was not suspended and the Canadian women earned their first Olympic soccer medal with a 1-0 triumph over France. Ms. Sinclair dropped to her knees and cried joyfully. And for the first time Canada seemed to awaken to women’s soccer. Thousands turned out to meet her and teammates a few days later at Vancouver International Airport.
“One of the biggest things I’ve gained from playing with Christine is that I’ve learned humility,” Ms. Awujo said on a conference call. “She is never someone that wants to be in the spotlight, even though she is fully deserving. Just having that humility and carrying that grace onto the field is something that I admire about her.”“I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is the legend of Canada’s soccer,’ ” she said.
Ms. Sinclair disdains interviews and when she acquiesces, remains guarded. She will talk about soccer but reveals little personal information about herself.As she grew up, Ms. Sinclair had few role models in women’s soccer other than maybe the American Mia Hamm.“That is who she does all of this for,” Mr. Brunt said.
Her mother worked at a bank and her dad worked in construction. Both are deceased. Bill died in 2016, four months after he was diagnosed with colon cancer; Sandra died in the spring of last year after a nearly lifelong battle with multiple sclerosis. “It was not her thing or a priority to her, but she recognized the importance of what it would bring to her platform,” Mr. Levine said. “I told her I would like to have her on my team and that she needed to do more of it.
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