Playing the Long Game - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor CHRISTINE SINCLAIR is the long-time forward and captain of Canada's national soccer team and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League. An Olympic gold medalist, two-time Olympic bronze medalist, CONCACAF champion, and 14-time winner of the Canadian Soccer Player of the Year award, and only the second player ever to appear and score in five FIFA Women's World Cups, Sinclair has scored 190 goals in international competition—more than any other player of any gender in history. Sinclair has also played in more than 310 international games in her professional football career, the most appearances by any active women's player. In 2022, she was the recipient of the inaugural The Best FIFA Special Award for women's football in recognition of her record-breaking goal scoring. Born and raised in Burnaby, BC, she lives in Portland, Oregon. STEPHEN BRUNT is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, and the author of many bestselling books including Facing Ali , Searching for Bobby Orr and Gretzky’s Tears . He is the co-founder and artistic director of the Writers at Woody Point festival, and divides his time between Hamilton, Ontario, where he was born, and Newfoundland. Klappentext NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A captivatingly honest read." —CBC Sports For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. Playing the Long Game is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women's sport. Christine Sinclair is one of the world's most respected and admired athletes. Not only is she the player who has scored the most goals on the international soccer stage, male or female, but more than two decades into her career, she is the heart of any team she plays on—the captain of both Canada's national team and the top-ranked Portland Thorns FC in the National Women's Soccer League.      Working with the brilliant and bestselling sportswriter Stephen Brunt, who has followed her career for decades, the intensely private Sinclair will share her reflections on the significant moments and turning points in her life and career, the big wins and losses survived—not only on the pitch. Her extraordinary journey, combined with her candour, commitment and decency, will inspire and empower her fans and admirers, and girls and women everywhere. Leseprobe Looking back, I think we were perfectly built for a pan­demic Olympics. The thing that has always separated the Canadian women’s national soccer team from other teams is how close we are, how connected we are, how much we enjoy each other’s company. Athletes like to talk about how they have a great team culture. Ours is unique, in my experi­ence, and not just the most recent version. It’s a culture that was built over the years. During the pandemic, when we were locked in our hotels or the Olympic Village and couldn’t even grab a coffee together at Starbucks, we could still rely on each other. We thrived on that. When the COVID-19 lockdowns hit in March 2020, we were playing in the Tournoi de France. Things were going well— we lost to France, beat Holland, tied Brazil— and it felt like we were on track to have a good Olympics in Tokyo that summer. But the world changed over the course of those few days. The tournament went from completely normal, with fans in the stands, to no fans and no handshakes by the end. I remember our team doctor saying that he didn’t think COVID was going to be that big of a deal and that everyone was making more of it than they should. The next thing you know we were being told to get out of Paris as fast as we could before we were trapped there. The day after we flew home, the NBA...

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• Autori: Christine Sinclair
• Editore: Random House Canada
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.10.2023
• EAN: 9781039004627
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3900462-7
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 202 mm x 17 mm
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Sport > Sport di palla