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Christine Margaret Sinclair (born June 12, 1983) is a Canadian soccer player and captain of the Canadian national team. She plays professionally for the Portland Thorns FC in the National Women's Soccer League as a forward, and previously played for FC Gold Pride and Western New York Flash in the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). An Olympic bronze medalist and twelve-time recipient of the Canada Soccer Player of the Year award, Sinclair is Canada's all-time leading scorer and as of June 27, 2015 ranked third worldwide in all-time international goals scored (155) after Abby Wambach (184) and Mia Hamm (158). Sinclair has won championships with three different professional teams: the 2010 WPS Championship with FC Gold Pride, the 2011 WPS Championship with Western New York Flash, and the 2013 NWSL Championship with Portland Thorns FC. Having played 15 years with the senior national team, Sinclair has played in four FIFA Women's World Cups (USA 2003, China 2007, Germany 2011, Canada 2015) and two Olympic Football Tournaments (Beijing 2008, London 2012). She was nominated as FIFA World Player of the Year six times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012). In 2012, Sinclair won both the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s athlete of the year and the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's female athlete of the year. In September 2013, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. == Early life == Born in Burnaby, British Columbia to Bill and Sandra Sinclair, Christine began playing soccer at the age of four for an under-7 team.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.canadasoccer.com/?t=roster&pid=2971 )〕 She is the niece of former North American Soccer League players Bruce and Brian Gant.〔 Sinclair played basketball, baseball and soccer as a youth.〔 Playing in a Burnaby boys baseball league, she made the local under-11 all-star team as a second baseman. With the team, she chose the number 12 as a tribute to Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Hall of Famer, Roberto Alomar.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=From strikes to striker )〕 Sinclair was selected to British Columbia's under-14 girls all-star soccer team at age 11 and led club team Burnaby Girls Soccer Club to six league titles, five provincial titles, and two top-five national finishes.〔 She attended Burnaby South Secondary School where she led the soccer team to three league championships.〔 At age 15, she attended matches of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup in Portland, Oregon.〔 She played for Canada's under-18 national team before making her debut at the senior level at age 16 at the 2000 Algarve Cup where she was the tournament's leading scorer with three goals.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christine Sinclair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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