Back in 1999, she was a high-school student, a soccer-playing teenager from a soccer-crazy family watching that World Cup along with everyone else, but also seeing her future. “I think that World Cup changed the sport of women’s soccer,” she says. “It was the first tournament that was on the map, where everyone paid attention.
In between came the moment when the larger public fell in love with a golden generation of young Canadian players: the 2002 U19 tournament in Edmonton. The home side lost to the Americans in the final . Sinclair scored 10 goals in the tournament, won the golden boot as top scorer and the golden ball as MVP, and the potential of that group to soon challenge the best in the world was obvious to all.
The final, meaningless match, a loss to Nigeria, was as dispiriting an occasion as you’ll ever encounter in sport, an emotionally-broken team going through the motions while their coach sat cross-armed on the bench, having washed her hands of them. Canada finished dead last in the tournament, and some of the veterans, including Sinclair, had a passing thought that it might be time to pack it in.
“We’d been through the absolute worst together. You could just feel something special was going to happen.” “And you also realize that, with John, we’d won back-to-back bronze medals. I don’t want another bronze medal.”“The thought of a Canadian being at the top of the goal-scoring charts and all of soccer is nuts. But I can't think about that right now.”
Wow you are so gorgeous and beautiful you are my favorite it From Team Canada Christine I love you too
been watching her and the women's program for 20 years...she's one of my favourite athletes, all time. good luck ladies. great piece too.
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