Canada's Christine Sinclair has announced plans to retire from professional soccer at the end of the National Women's Soccer League season.
Canada's Christine Sinclair has announced plans to retire from professional soccer at the end of the National Women's Soccer League season. The 41-year-old former Canada captain, who retired from international soccer last year, will play her final game with the Portland Thorns, her longtime club team, on Nov. 1.— Sinclair is the world's all-time leading goal-scorer with 190 in 327 international appearances. That earned her The Best FIFA Special Award in January 2022.
— In 2012, Sinclair won both the Lou Marsh Trophy and The Canadian Press Female Athlete of the Year Award. — Sinclair is also the first soccer player appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada, and the first to have her name engraved on Canada's Walk of Fame. — She won WPS club titles with FC Gold Pride and the Western New York Flash in 2010 and 2011, and the NWSL championship in 2013, 2017 and 2022 with the Portland Thorns.
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